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Bureau Land Management is Hiring a Mining Engineer Near Salt Lake, UT

Qualifications:

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.

In addition to the Basic Education requirements, to qualify at the GS-13 level you must meet the following:

Specialized Experience: Applicants must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 level equivalent in difficulty and complexity to perform the duties of a Mining Engineer. Qualifying specialized experience includes: serving as a senior engineer providing expertise on at least one of the following: coal exploration, development, operations, and/or production verification, safety, inspection, and enforcement actions; providing guidance on coal regulations; applying the Federal Lands Program of the Surface Mining Control Reclamation Act or Mine Health and Safety Administration regulations as appropriate to a coal program; and developing or evaluating mine plans and reserve calculations for leasing.

Please note there are no educational substitutions at this grade level.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level.

Physical Demands: The work is normally sedentary in an office environment requiring high levels of concentration and subjected to pressures associated with meeting deadlines and sudden shifts in workload priorities. Work performed with production oversight may involve regular and recurring District and Field Office visits with concomitant on-site inspections. Field and inspection work my involve walking, lifting items weighing less than 50 pounds, and/or driving 4x4 vehicle over rough terrain during extreme weather conditions.

Work Environment: Work environment in the office normally involves the completion of technical work in a short time frame. These short time frames coupled with heavy workloads commonly involve relatively high stress situations, Field work and inspections may involve walking or driving over rough terrain in harsh weather conditions. Field work requires frequent visits to surface and underground mining operations exposing the employee to hazardous mine conditions, complex and dangerous mobile mining machinery, large trucks, blasting operations, drilling equipment, etc. Use of safety equipment such as goggles, steel-toes shoes or boots, and self-rescuers is mandatory on these visits. Incumbent will require working knowledge of MSHA and OSHA regulations and will be required to take self-rescuer and other mine safety training as required. Travel is required throughout the State of Utah, neighboring states, and on occasion to Washington D.C.

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