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Position Title
Range Technician (Weeds)
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Announcement Number
CATEMP-25-12718972-CH Opens in new window
Open Period
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 to Tuesday, April 22, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans’ Preference? (limit characters)
2. Career Transition Assistance Plan:  Do you meet ALL of the following eligibilities?
  • I am a current or former competitive federal employee displaced or surplused from the Department of the Interior; AND
  • I am located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
  • I am applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which I have been or will be separated; AND
  • My last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility.  All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.   
(limit characters)
3. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan: Do you meet ALL of the following eligibilities?
  • I am a current or former competitive federal employee displaced from a position in a federal agency other than the Department of the Interior; AND
  • I am located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
  • I am currently in a position at the same grade level or higher than the position being announced; AND
  • My last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility.  All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement. 
(limit characters)
Preferences
1. Select the location(s) you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one location. (limit characters)
2. Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position. (limit characters)
3. Would you accept a temporary appointment? (limit characters)
Assessment 1
1. I qualify for the GS-05 grade because: (limit characters)
2. I qualify for the GS-06 grade because: (limit characters)
3. I qualify for the GS-07 grade because: (limit characters)
4. From the following list, please identify the abilities that you have routinely and successfully applied at work and are identified in your resume. (Check all that apply). (limit characters)
5. Indicate your level of experience, education or training as it relates to the identification and/or control of noxious/invasive weeds. (limit characters)
6. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience training others to mix herbicide, spray herbicide and calibrate spray equipment. (limit characters)
7. Select the statement that best describes your training and/or experience working well with others. (limit characters)
8. Only Select the statement which best describes your ability to foster and maintain professional contacts with agencies, organizations and private land owners. (limit characters)
9. Select all of the following statements that best describe your experience working with people on a regular basis: (limit characters)
10. Select all of the following areas where you have had experience in writing or preparing documents: (limit characters)
11. Which of the following statements best describes your experience in coordinating your work with special resources/program areas such as range, wildlife, and recreation? (limit characters)
12. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience developing maps to describe information in data layers using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). (limit characters)
13. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience using GPS technology for use in vegetation mapping, acreage determinations, and road and property line locations. (limit characters)
14. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience recording simple range measurements in the field. (limit characters)
15. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience participating in preplanning surveys and reconnaissance of range and erosion conditions. (limit characters)
16. Select the statement that best describes your education, training, and/or experience applying rangeland management principles, practices, and concepts in order to assess resources for proper rangeland health. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
17. I am able to operate a four-wheel drive vehicle up to one ton. (limit characters)
18. I am able to operate an UTV with a mounted sprayer. (limit characters)
19. I have operated 4 wheel ATVs in rugged terrain. (limit characters)
20. Select the statement that best describes your experience associated with compiling documentation or reports of natural resource conditions (e.g. vegetative monitoring data, actual grazing use, riparian data, etc.) for utilization in management decisions. (limit characters)
21. Select the statement that best describes your computer skills sufficient to retrieve, analyze and manipulate data in plant/wildlife databases, as well as to produce reports with graphics, maps, and spreadsheets. (limit characters)
22. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be cancelled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position. (limit characters)