Description du poste
This position is located in Region 6, Mt. Hood National Forest and serves as the timber program manager. Positions may be filled at one or more of the duty locations included in this announcement. Final determination of the duty location will be made at the time of the job offer. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Bradley Goehring at bradley.goehring@usda.gov USDA Employees: Please refer to the Next Steps section.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
Prepares long-range functional plans including formulation of policies, objectives, and priorities and the correlation and integration of natural resource plans into the overall land management planning.
Leads the development of short and long term action plans associated with an integrated vegetation management program and associated budgets.
Develops technical guides and standards for timber marking and sale preparation, contract selection and preparation, and harvesting techniques to meet integrated program objectives in collaboration with first level units and staff areas.
Oversees and conducts team-based technical field reviews of project implementation of timber sales and integrated resources contracts to assess consistency with Forest Service direction.
Serves as a consultant and advisor to other staff officers and to first level units in all aspects of timber management functions and practices associated with timber management with a focus on integration between program areas.
Assumes leadership and fully participates in the integration of programs and budgets to foster efficient and effective restoration of forested ecosystems.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUISES :
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Basic Requirement: GS-0460: Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in forestry; or a related subject-matter field that included a total of at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours of course work were in forestry. The curriculum must have been sufficiently diversified to include courses in each of the following areas: Management of Renewable Resources -- study of the science and art of managing renewable resources to attain desired results. Examples of creditable courses in this area include silviculture, forest management operations, timber management, wildland fire science or fire management, utilization of forest resources, forest regulation, recreational land management, watershed management, and wildlife or range habitat management. Forest Biology -- study of the classification, distribution, characteristics, and identification of forest vegetation, and the interrelationships of living organisms to the forest environment. Examples of creditable courses in this area include dendrology, forest ecology, silvics, forest genetics, wood structure and properties, forest soils, forest entomology, and forest pathology. Forest Resource Measurements and Inventory -- sampling, inventory, measurement, and analysis techniques as applied to a variety of forest resources. Examples of creditable courses include forest biometrics, forest mensuration, forest valuation, statistical analysis of forest resource data, renewable natural resources inventories and analysis, and photogrammetry or remote sensing. OR Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in fore