Geodetic Surveyor (Hiring Event)

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency • Holloman AFB, NM

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About The Position

Geodetic Surveyors perform geodetic, geophysical, and GC-LiDAR surveys. They use, maintain, and troubleshoot survey equipment; compute, adjust, and evaluate geodetic and geophysical survey data; provide technical expertise on geodetic and geophysical issues to customers; and represent NGA in external community forums.

NGA uses a flexible, high-mobility career model. Individuals are hired for their skills within a specialty and may be placed in various positions after completing the clearance process. Work may involve data analysis, resource administration, software development, data-flow management, writing and reviewing agreements, and logistics. This position supports a worldwide network of satellite tracking stations and requires participation in shift work, including periodic evening and weekend work. Overnight shifts are rare but possible, and employees are expected to be flexible when requirements or crisis responses require schedule changes.

The position may offer a recruitment incentive, subject to eligibility. Candidates accepting an incentive must sign a service agreement requiring prorated repayment if the agreement is terminated before completion. This is a DCIPS position in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601. NGA employees are assigned to pay bands, with base salary determined by qualifications and a yearly performance-pay process that may result in a base-pay increase or bonus.

Employment requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and retain a Top Secret clearance with access to SCI, including a Counterintelligence Polygraph. Drug testing, periodic eligibility examinations, and annual submission of a Security Financial Disclosure Report (SF-714) for employees with SCI access under NGA cognizance are required. A trial period applies during which NGA evaluates fitness for employment and whether continued employment advances the public interest.

Applicants must demonstrate experience modeling scientific systems; communicating with leadership and stakeholders through written, visual, or verbal reporting and presentations; collaborating to meet project goals and deadlines; identifying, analyzing, and resolving challenging issues; conducting scientific or statistical analysis; and working with computer operating systems, networking, coding, or database management. Education must meet the specified degree-and-coursework requirement, or the stated combination of coursework and related experience totaling four years.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and retain a Top Secret security clearance with access to SCI, including a Counterintelligence Polygraph examination; subject to periodic examinations and required security financial disclosures as applicable.
• Subject to designated or random drug testing.
• Experience modeling scientific systems, including areas such as physics, geophysics, geology, or geosciences.
• Experience communicating with leadership and stakeholders through written, visual, or verbal reporting and presentations.
• Experience working collaboratively as part of a team to meet project goals and deadlines.
• Experience identifying, analyzing, and resolving challenging issues.
• Experience with scientific or statistical analysis, including geophysical or geodetic data.
• Experience with computer operating systems, computer networking, coding, and/or database management.
• Either a bachelor's degree in Geodesy, Mathematics, Physical Science, or a related discipline with at least 30 semester (45 quarter) hours in the listed subject areas, including differential and integral calculus; or at least 30 semester (45 quarter) hours in a listed subject area plus related experience, with education and experience totaling four years.
• Must be able to meet the stated physical requirements, including heavy lifting and carrying of 45 pounds or more, and the stated visual and other physical capabilities.
• Must be able to work in the stated environments, including outdoors and indoors, around intermittent excessive noise, fumes, smoke or gases, uneven or slippery surfaces, machinery, moving objects or vehicles, ladders or scaffolding, and below ground.
• Must participate in shift work; periodic evening and weekend work is required, and overnight shifts are possible.
• Must be flexible to changing requirements and schedule changes during crisis responses.

Nice To Haves

• Registration as a Professional Engineer or Land Surveyor is highly desirable.
• Experience with one or more of UNIX, UNIX scripting, FORTRAN, C, C++, STK, UML, MATLAB, Mathematica, or Python.
• Experience learning and applying new IT technologies and software.
• Experience managing program integration, execution, and resource allocation.
• Experience with satellite characteristics (hardware or software), GNSS, WGS 84, and/or Precise Ephemerides calculations.
• Experience leading teams, programs, and/or projects.
• Strong educational background or experience in scientific modeling and statistical analysis, particularly with geodetic or geophysical data.
• Direct experience with GNSS, including calculation of Precise Ephemerides, or WGS 84.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze geophysical and geodetic orbit data, determine interrelationships, and submit recommendations to maintain program requirements.
• Support continuous data monitoring for GNSS systems, including evening and weekend support.
• Guide research and analysis by evaluating complex geophysical data sets, identifying data deviations, and recommending courses of action.
• Manage program integration, execution, and resourcing in support of a worldwide network of satellite tracking stations.
• Perform geodetic, geophysical, and GC-LiDAR surveys; use, maintain, and troubleshoot survey equipment; and compute, adjust, and evaluate survey data.
• Provide technical expertise on geodetic and geophysical issues to customers and represent NGA in external community forums.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time