Natural Resource Specialist

Environmental Specialist

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

1. Leads or participates in interdisciplinary teams conducting environmental analyses and ensuring compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
2. Determines the environmental effects of Reclamation's actions and project operations.
3. Prepares, or oversees preparation of, and reviews categorical exclusion checklists, environmental assessments, Findings of No Significant Impacts, environmental impact statements, records of decision, and biological assessments.
4. Provides technical analyses, guidance, and policy recommendations for assuring that environmental requirements are appropriately integrated with regional programs and activities that affect biological, land, and water resources.
5. Collaborates with specialists in a wide range of disciplines, including engineers, hydrologists, soil scientists, economists, and other professionals.
6. Prepares memoranda, special technical reports, statements of work, service agreements, task orders, and other documentation on environmental issues and tasks, and provides guidance and assistance to government or contract personnel involved in preparing such documents.
7. Develops sampling plans and leads field crews collecting data for aquatic and habitat resource surveys for resident and anadromous fish.

Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.