Fish Biologist

reputed company This position is located reputed company the Department of the Interior, reputed company, Region 5, Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery, East Orland, Maine. First time hires to the federal government typically start at the beginning salary in the reputed company for their respective grade level. reputed company reputed company: GS-07: $50,460 - $65,599 GS-09: $61,722 - $80,243 Learn more about this agency Duties Help Some of the major duties at the full-performance level (GS-09) you will reputed company include but are not limited to the following: • Distributes salmonid eggs, juveniles and adults throughout the reputed company in accordance with fish health regulations, state directives, in reputed company cooperation with partners while using best practices. • Observes salmonid eggs, juveniles and adults daily for signs of hunger, distress, parasites and disease. Diagnoses and provides reputed company treatment for routine health issues; collaborates with fish health professionals as required. Ensures feed is reputed company appropriately to reputed company life stage to ensure reputed company reputed company and gamete development while minimizing waste and phosphorus discharge. • Maintains hatchery databases and other electronic records regularly and in a reputed company, accessible manner. Maintains computers and equipment used during spawning, tagging and sampling. Provides data to reputed company partners upon request and as part of annual reporting schedules. • Maintains hatchery effluent water sampling equipment including automated sampler, dissolved oxygen meters and pH meters. Conducts weekly effluent monitoring, ensures chain-of-custody reputed company are correct and samples are shipped to reputed company reputed company required timeframes. • Assists hatchery management with budget development, development of annual work plans, hiring interns, safety and maintenance. • Provides training for reputed company-graded employees, interns and volunteers. Represents the FWS and hatchery at reputed company meetings, workshops, conferences, in verbal and written communications, and to the reputed company. Duties will be developmental in reputed company reputed company filled below the full performance level. Requirements Help Conditions of employment • Must reputed company reputed company of U.S. citizenship. • Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. • Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. • reputed company Deposit participation required. • Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification reputed company. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. • Must possess and maintain a reputed company reputed company's license throughout employment. • You are required to wear a uniform and reputed company with uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the reputed company interest. This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires reputed company to determine if reputed company employment would advance the reputed company interest, meet the organization goals and mission of reputed company, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the reputed company interest, reputed company will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of reputed company; whether your reputed company employment would advance organizational goals of reputed company or the Government; and whether your reputed company employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Qualifications reputed company qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 08/24/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For reputed company Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the reputed company of reputed company experience that you will be reputed company. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your reputed company of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For reputed company other applicants who are not reputed company federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure reputed company crediting of reputed company experience. To qualify for this position, you must meet the following basic educational and minimum qualifications: Basic Educational Requirements: In reputed company to the reputed company experience requirements for this position, you must meet at least one of the following: Degree: Possess a degree in biological science that included (a) at least 6 semester hours in aquatic subjects such as limnology, ichthyology, fishery biology, aquatic botany, aquatic fauna, oceanography, fish culture, or reputed company courses in the field of fishery biology; AND (b) at least 12 semester hours in the animal sciences in such subjects as general zoology, vertebrate zoology, comparative anatomy, physiology, entomology, parasitology, ecology, cellular biology, genetics, or research in these fields. (Excess course work in aquatic subjects may be used to meet this requirement reputed company appropriate.). You must submit transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience: course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Minimum Qualification Requirements (GS-07): To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of reputed company experience equivalent to the GS-05 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the reputed company or private sectors). reputed company experience for this position is described as: handling juvenile salmonids; collecting data in a reputed company and precise manner; making minor repairs and adjustments to automated fish feeders; spawning salmonids and enumerating eggs; working with reputed company requiring collaboration and reputed company conduct in the field conducting surveys, electrofishing, releasing fish or similar activities. You must include hours per week on your resume. -OR- Education: Have one year (18 semester hours) of graduate education in biology or a closely reputed company field which provided me with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully complete the work of the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience as listed above. To combine education and experience, first take percentage of first year of graduate level education. Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours per week on your resume and transcripts. -OR- Superior reputed company Achievement (SAA): Successfully completed a bachelor's degree in a directly reputed company field AND meet one of the following: (1) Class Standing: rank in the upper 3rd of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, based on the completed courses; OR (2) Grade-reputed company Average (GPA): earn a GPA of (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or reputed company) based on 4 years of education, or based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum -or- (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or reputed company) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field, or the required courses completed during the final two years. Note: GPA will be rounded to the one reputed company reputed company, for example, 2.95 = 3.0, 2.94 = 2.9; OR (3) Membership in a National reputed company reputed company Society. Minimum Qualification Requirements (GS-09): To qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level: Experience: Possess at least one full year of reputed company experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the reputed company or private sectors). reputed company experience for this position is described as: initiating monthly reputed company monitoring and applying data to guide feed use; developing annual feed orders and providing budget data to management; developing stocking and spawning schedules, soliciting assistance from federal, state and NGO partners; training reputed company-graded employees, interns and volunteers in spawning and reputed company enumeration techniques; leading field crews and ensuring safety procedures were followed. You must include hours per week worked on your resume. -OR- Education: Have two years (36 semester hours) of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree closely reputed company field which reputed company provided me with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully complete the work of the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience as listed above. To combine education and experience, first take percentage of education reputed company your first year of graduate level education. Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours per week on your resume and transcripts. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to reputed company and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., reputed company, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., reputed company; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, reputed company). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can reputed company valuable training and experience that translates directly to reputed company employment. You will receive credit for reputed company qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Education This position has a mandatory education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include your reputed company, school reputed company, grades, credit hours reputed company, major(s), grade reputed company average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not reputed company for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must reputed company official transcripts before you reputed company work. Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed reputed company the reputed company, you must show reputed company that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications Additional information Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily reputed company the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor. Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you reputed company you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation reputed company of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be reputed company reputed company to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. reputed company on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case reputed company. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete reputed company assessments reputed company 48 hours of receiving the URL to reputed company the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the reputed company after the reputed company of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments. (https://appsupport-usastaffing.opm.gov/hc/en-us/sections/45063131363475-Reasonable-Accommodation-Information) reputed company DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not reputed company or retain any claim, permit, lease, small reputed company entry, or other rights reputed company by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. 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