- Position Title
- Production Accountability Specialist
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Announcement Number
- BLM-NM-25-12641711-IMP-OPM Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, December 20, 2024 to Friday, January 10, 2025
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Eligibilities
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONS CAREFULLY. YOUR RESPONSES WILL AFFECT YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS POSITION. The following questions address if you are eligible to apply to this job opportunity announcement through Merit Promotion procedures. You will only be considered under the options you have selected. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond that you do not meet any of the following criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. Please refer to the announcement for additional information. You must submit a complete application by the close of the announcement to be considered.
1.
Current Bureau of Land Management Competitive Merit Promotion
Are you a current career/career-conditional Bureau of Land Management Federal employee and meet the following Competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Department of the Bureau of Land Management Federal employee with a career or career- conditional appointment in the competitive service that holds, or have held a career or career-conditional position at a lower grade level as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect: • career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND, • status in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
Are you a current, permanent Bureau of Land Management employee applying for Competitive Merit Promotion?
Are you a current career/career-conditional Bureau of Land Management Federal employee and meet the following Competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Department of the Bureau of Land Management Federal employee with a career or career- conditional appointment in the competitive service that holds, or have held a career or career-conditional position at a lower grade level as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect: • career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND, • status in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
Are you a current, permanent Bureau of Land Management employee applying for Competitive Merit Promotion?
2.
Current Bureau of Land Management Non-Competitive Merit Promotion
Are you a current career/career-conditional Bureau of Land Management Federal employee and meet the following Non-competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service that hold, or have previously held a career or career-conditional position at the same or higher grade level with the same or higher promotion potential as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect: • career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND, • status in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
Are you a current, permanent Bureau of Land Management employee applying for Non-Competitive Merit promotion?
Are you a current career/career-conditional Bureau of Land Management Federal employee and meet the following Non-competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service that hold, or have previously held a career or career-conditional position at the same or higher grade level with the same or higher promotion potential as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Bureau of Land Management Federal employee. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect: • career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND, • status in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
Are you a current, permanent Bureau of Land Management employee applying for Non-Competitive Merit promotion?
3.
Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)
Are you a current federal employee who is considered surplus or displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from a position in the agency posting this job announcement with CTAP eligibility?
Are you a current federal employee who is considered surplus or displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
- you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of your current position; AND,
- you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than your current position; AND,
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from a position in the agency posting this job announcement with CTAP eligibility?
4.
Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA)
Are you a current or former term or temporary employee of a Land Management Agency (The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Reclamation) and are serving or served under a time-limited competitive service appointment? You may be eligible to compete under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act, P.L. 114-47. For more information review, https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/land-management-workforce-flexibility-act.htm
Current land management agency appointees must have initially been hired under competitive procedures for a time-limited appointment; must have served under one or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; and must have performed at an acceptable level during each period of service.
Former land management agency employees must have initially been hired under competitive procedures for a time-limited appointment; must have served under one or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; and must have performed at an acceptable level during each period of service; must have been separated (with respect to their most recent separation) for reasons other than misconduct or performance, and must apply for a position covered by these provisions within two years of their most recent date of separation.
You must provide documentation showing all required periods of service which includes ALL Appointment AND Termination SF-50s for EACH appointment as well as ALL performance evaluations or references from supervisors (if employed for periods of time too short to require an appraisal) for each qualifying period of temporary employment claimed.
Are you a current or former employee of a Land Management Agency with LMWFA eligibility?
Are you a current or former term or temporary employee of a Land Management Agency (The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Reclamation) and are serving or served under a time-limited competitive service appointment? You may be eligible to compete under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act, P.L. 114-47. For more information review, https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/land-management-workforce-flexibility-act.htm
Current land management agency appointees must have initially been hired under competitive procedures for a time-limited appointment; must have served under one or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; and must have performed at an acceptable level during each period of service.
Former land management agency employees must have initially been hired under competitive procedures for a time-limited appointment; must have served under one or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; and must have performed at an acceptable level during each period of service; must have been separated (with respect to their most recent separation) for reasons other than misconduct or performance, and must apply for a position covered by these provisions within two years of their most recent date of separation.
You must provide documentation showing all required periods of service which includes ALL Appointment AND Termination SF-50s for EACH appointment as well as ALL performance evaluations or references from supervisors (if employed for periods of time too short to require an appraisal) for each qualifying period of temporary employment claimed.
Are you a current or former employee of a Land Management Agency with LMWFA eligibility?
5.
Former Public Lands Corps Member
Are you a former member of the PLC between the ages of 16 and 30, who has served the time required for completing a PLC project carried out on Federal land within the preceding 2 years (an individuals eligibility for NCE under this authority shall not exceed 2 years after completion of his/her last PLC project), and:
• Served as a qualified youth on an appropriate conservation project completing a minimum of 640 hours of satisfactory service that included at least 120 hours through the PLC, and
• Meet OPM qualification standards and any other qualification requirement(s) stated in this vacancy announcement for the position in which you are applying.
To verify your eligibility, you must include a copy of the appropriate Certificate of Eligibility (signed/certified by the PLC member's last supervisor or a DOI agency Youth Program Office coordinator) and the completed signed/certified PLC Participant Work Hours Verification Form for noncompetitive hiring with your application. This certificate will serve as proof that the former PLC member has met all necessary service requirements for noncompetitive hiring as stated in Public Law (P.L.) 109-154.
Additional supporting documentation requirements are listed in the Required Documents section of this announcement. For more information, review the Department of the Interior PLC Hiring Authority Personnel Bulletin.
Are you eligible for non-competitive hire under the PLC authority?
Are you a former member of the PLC between the ages of 16 and 30, who has served the time required for completing a PLC project carried out on Federal land within the preceding 2 years (an individuals eligibility for NCE under this authority shall not exceed 2 years after completion of his/her last PLC project), and:
• Served as a qualified youth on an appropriate conservation project completing a minimum of 640 hours of satisfactory service that included at least 120 hours through the PLC, and
• Meet OPM qualification standards and any other qualification requirement(s) stated in this vacancy announcement for the position in which you are applying.
To verify your eligibility, you must include a copy of the appropriate Certificate of Eligibility (signed/certified by the PLC member's last supervisor or a DOI agency Youth Program Office coordinator) and the completed signed/certified PLC Participant Work Hours Verification Form for noncompetitive hiring with your application. This certificate will serve as proof that the former PLC member has met all necessary service requirements for noncompetitive hiring as stated in Public Law (P.L.) 109-154.
Additional supporting documentation requirements are listed in the Required Documents section of this announcement. For more information, review the Department of the Interior PLC Hiring Authority Personnel Bulletin.
Are you eligible for non-competitive hire under the PLC authority?
Preferences
1.
In the last five years, based on the closing date of this announcement, have you served or are you currently serving as an Executive Branch political, Schedule C, or Non-career SES appointee? You can find out if you have held one of these appointment types by looking at your Standard Form 50s in your Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF), in Section 5 where the legal authorities are listed.
- A political appointee is an appointment made by the President without confirmation by the Senate (5 CFR 213.3102(c)) OR an assistant position to a top-level federal official if filled by a person designated by the President as a White House Fellow (5 CFR 213.3102(z)).
- A Schedule C appointee occupies a position excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director of OPM, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties (5 CFR 213.3301 and 5 CFR 213.3302).
- A Non-career SES appointee is approved by the White House and serves at the pleasure of the appointing official without time limitations (5 CFR 317 Subpart F).
Conditions of Employment
1.
I have a satisfactory or better rating on my last performance appraisal. I will provide a copy of my performance appraisal, if requested.
2.
I have received recruitment incentive awards during the last two years and have listed them on my resume.
Assessment 1
Your responses to this questionnaire, in conjunction with the other portions of your completed application, will be evaluated in determining your eligibility to be considered for the position. Choose the response that best represents your education, experience, and training. Do not overstate or understate your level of experience and capability. You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide.
1.
From the descriptions below, select the one statement that most accurately describes the specialized experience and/or education that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this Production Accountability Specialist position at the GS-09 grade level in the Federal Service. Read all responses before making your selection.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Ensure compliance and enforcement of rules, regulations, and statutes including 43 CFR 3160-3178, FOGRMA, and NTL's governing the production and reporting of production from Federal and Indian oil and gas leases.
3.
Resolve difficult or sensitive production accountability cases per the guidance of petroleum production accounting concepts, principles, practices, methods, and techniques.
4.
Assign and process cases using various land laws, minerals leasing laws, land and minerals policies, regulations, methods, procedures, agreements, and internal workflow.
5.
Educate operators and lower grade employees on compliance and reporting requirements per comprehensive rules, regulations, techniques, and procedures concerning oil and gas production.
6.
Understand the principles, operational procedures, and royalty reporting procedures used in oil & gas operation.
7.
Review Oil and Gas Operation Reports (OGORs) for both Federal and Tribal wells for correctly reported volumes, BTU, API gravity, and disposition coded in accordance with both the BLM Federal Regulations and ONNR's reporting handbook requirements.
8.
Analyze large amounts of data from both internal and external sources to determine accurate reporting of volumes, gas analysis requirements, meter calibration error percentage requirements, beta ratio, weighted averages.
9.
Compare findings with OGORs in accordance with Federal Regulations.
10.
Use technical knowledge to calculate gas volumes produced, sold, or transferred to gas processing plants.
11.
Accept and process all sundries for the I&E program using the AFMSS 2 system.
12.
Assist with the yearly development of the Oil and Gas Inspection and Enforcement Strategy Matrices and Goals for the office.
13.
Process enforcement activities per Federal Regulation.
14.
Perform investigation process for noncompliant operator, unreachable operators, first assessment, penalties, investigate other lease holders and research to send enforcement letters.
15.
Prepare Incidents of Non-Compliance (INC's), monetary assessments and /or penalties for non-compliance with orders to submit documents for review.
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Perform investigative principles and techniques used to determine if operations comply.
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Plan, conduct, or manage investigations and the reviewing of data to identify patterns and determine if the results of the investigation result in revoke, penalties, or sanctions.
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Use deductive reasoning in analyzing situations or problems encountered during an inspection to determine appropriate compliance requirements.
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Utilize the AFMSS 2 (Auto Fluid Management Support System) to enter inspections, process sundries, research history of wells, and data cleanup.
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Utilize ONRR's production reporting system MART to accurately review OGORs for missing or inaccurate information.
21.
Utilize the MRLS for lease, agreement, and formation verification.
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Utilize the CBS (Collections and Billing System) for the creation of Assessments and Civil Penalties.
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Competence in personal productivity software applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
As previously explained, your ratings in this Occupational Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification based on the resume and documents you submit. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your ratings. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you or for dismissing you from the position/agency during the probationary period, or other disciplinary action, including termination. Please take this opportunity to review your ratings to ensure their accuracy. By agreeing to the statement below, you are confirming that you: Understand this warning; have reviewed your responses to this questionnaire for accuracy; and verified that your responses accurately describe your current level of experience and capability.
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Failure to agree or respond to the statement below will disqualify you from further consideration for the position. Select the most appropriate response below.