Archeological Technician

Summary

This is an open and continuous announcement. See Additional Information section for more information. Applications will expire every 90 days. To remain active for consideration, applicants must resubmit their application. Positions may be filled at one or more of the duty locations included in this announcement.

Final determination of the duty location and work schedule to be made at time of the job offer.

For more information, contact the Human Resources staff at SM.FS.anilcajobs@usda.gov.

Duties

• Duties described are at the minimum target grade for this announcement, GS-05:
• Provides technical support to the heritage resources staff.
• Conducts inventories of Forest cultural resources in areas of proposed Forest Service projects.
• Performs on-the-ground area surveys for surface and subsurface evidence of historic and prehistoric archeological remains.
• Performs a variety of computations and assessments of standard archeological data, such as entering archeological artifact and projects data in appropriate forms and databases.
• Transfers GPS data to a GIS Arc View program loaded in a computer to create a map.
• Ensures that archeology work assignments are carried out in safe, timely manner according to established standards and procedures.

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