FUL - Biological Science Technician.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) · Warm Springs, OR · 1 mo ago
AnalystFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Duties (as responsibilities?), Requirements, Qualifications, maybe Benefits? The posting includes Duties, Requirements, Qualifications, Additional information (Physical Demands, Working Conditions, etc). Also includes some benefits: Uniform allowance, Government Housing may be available, maybe not explicit benefits. Pay/Schedule not present, so we should not create those sections. We need to use for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should only include sections with real content. The posting has Duties (we can map to Responsibilities). It has Requirements (conditions of employment). It has Qualifications. It also has Additional information (Physical Demands, Working Conditions, etc). Could map to Skills? Not exactly. Could create a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list is given as examples; we can use those headings but not required to stick exactly? The instruction: "use
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Now Requirements: list of conditions:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- Direct Deposit participation required.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- Required to wear a uniform and comply with uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided.
- Government Housing may be available.
- May be required to work on-call, nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Emergency Alarm Response required: Must be able to respond to alarms within 30 minutes.
- As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated. (Probationary period details). We need to preserve all that text. Could break into multiple items.
We should not include boilerplate like "To learn more, visit". There's a line: "To learn more, visit". That's likely a link placeholder; we should drop it as it's navigation/boilerplate. Also "You are required to wear a uniform..." we already captured.
Now Qualifications: includes many paragraphs. Need to preserve all substantive info. We'll break into items for each bullet or paragraph.
Qualifications section includes:
- All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/11/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
- All candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements.
- To receive credit for experience, 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 proper crediting of specialized experience.
- Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.
- For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.
- Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications:
- To qualify for this position at the GS-06 Grade Level Specialized Experience Requirement: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience includes: 1...5...
- This experience must be clearly documented in your resume; OR
- Education: Successfully completed one year of progressively higher-level graduate level education (18 semester/27 quarter hours or the school's equivalent) leading to a master's or equivalent graduate degree at an accredited college or university that included courses directly related to the occupation, such as fishery biology, ichthyology, limnology, and aquaculture.
- OR Combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, first take the number of graduate level semester hours completed and divide by18 semester hours. 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 transcripts.
- To qualify for this position at the GS-07 Grade Level: Specialized Experience Requirement: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience includes: 1...4...
- This experience must be clearly documented in your resume; OR
- Education: ... same as above.
- OR Combination of education and experience ... same.
- Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Education You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point 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 qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
- Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof 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. Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S. Department of Education.
We need to keep all that. We'll break into list items.
Additional Information section includes:
- Additional information This position will be filled under the Field Unit Local Hiring Authority. Eligibility is limited to applicants who reside within the defined local commuting area at the time of application. For this announcement, the local commuting area is the area from which individuals can reasonably commute to the duty station under normal conditions. The defined vicinity for this position is: 50 miles of Warm Springs, OR. You must provide proof of residency within the defined vicinity (e.g. mortgage or property deed, lease/rental agreement, utility bill, insurance policy, etc.). See the Required Documents section for information on how to verify current residence.
- 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 perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.
- Physical Demands: Physical demands will range depending on the project and use of the position. Most locations will be in locations around running water and requiring regular and recurring physical activity such as prolonged standing, walking over wet and/or rocky surfaces, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and carrying heavy items may occur.
- Working Conditions: Most locations will be in locations in and around running water where the incumbent could be exposed to extreme weather conditions, insects/wildlife, and/or other environments that would require the incumbent to use protective clothing or gear such as hard hats, masks, gowns, ear plugs, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields to mitigate risks.
- All Department of Interior (DOI) employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here,
- Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about (cut off). This seems truncated; we should keep as is? It's incomplete sentence; but it's substantive? It's incomplete; maybe it's boilerplate cut off. Might be considered boilerplate? It's incomplete; better to drop as it's likely part of a truncated sentence that is not meaningful. However instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should only include sections with real content. The posting has Duties (we can map to Responsibilities). It has Requirements (conditions of employment). It has Qualifications. It also has Additional information (Physical Demands, Working Conditions, etc). Could map to Skills? Not exactly. Could create a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list is given as examples; we can use those headings but not required to stick exactly? The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests we can use those headings, but we could also use other headings? Probably better to stick to those. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have Duties -> Responsibilities.
Requirements -> Requirements (conditions of employment).
Qualifications -> Qualifications.
Additional info like Physical Demands, Working Conditions could go under Skills? Not really. Could be under "About the role"? Might be better to create a section "Skills" for specialized experience etc. But the qualifications already cover that. The additional info about physical demands and working conditions could be placed under "About the role" maybe. But we need to preserve all substantive information. We could create a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed list; maybe we can still use with that heading; the instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those as examples. Safer to stick to those.
We could put Physical Demands and Working Conditions under "Skills" as they are not skills though. Could put under "About the role". The "About the role" could contain a brief description, but we have duties already. Maybe we can combine duties and additional info under Responsibilities? But responsibilities already long. Could add a subsection within responsibilities for physical demands? Not needed.
Better: Use headings: Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits (if any). Benefits: Uniform allowance, Government Housing may be available. That's a benefit. Also maybe "Emergency Alarm Response required" is a requirement not benefit. So we can create Benefits section with those.
Pay and Schedule not present, so omit.
Thus output:
Responsibilities
- ... duties list ...
We need to preserve all substantive information from duties paragraph. The duties paragraph is a long run-on sentence. We need to split into list items for each duty. We should not invent or summarize away detail. We need to capture each distinct duty.
Let's parse duties:
"Plans and carries out some hatchery data collection on hatchery populations to study health and propagation methods."
"Fish hatchery operations and studies on efficiency may cover breeding, rearing, and/or growing fish in tanks or raceways, caring for fertilized eggs in trays, observing fish behavior in response to feeding, cleaning, and husbandry operations, determining feed regiments, treating fish disease, collecting and recording data (hard copy and digital), operating specialized aquaculture equipment such as gates, pumps, valves, filters, alarms, and other support systems to maintain fish health."
"Uses specialized techniques and methods to collect biological and physical environment data and reports findings."
"Collects biological samples ensuring correct documentation, reporting, storage, transport and delivery of samples taken."
"Develops and uses automated databases to enter, organize and perform preliminary analysis of collected field data."
"Works with hatchery crew in providing daily care to fish in an aquaculture facility."
"Performs assignments and general maintenance required for general fish hatchery upkeep and maintenance including simple hand tools or power equipment, landscaping tools (grass mowers, shrub trimmers, etc.), and other tools for minor repairs on hatchery equipment."
"Works with 5 additional hatcheries in implementing their work plans to accomplish the Complex mission."
"Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level."
We need to keep all that. We'll make each as
with that heading; the instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those as examples. Safer to stick to those.
We could put Physical Demands and Working Conditions under "Skills" as they are not skills though. Could put under "About the role". The "About the role" could contain a brief description, but we have duties already. Maybe we can combine duties and additional info under Responsibilities? But responsibilities already long. Could add a subsection within responsibilities for physical demands? Not needed.
Better: Use headings: Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits (if any). Benefits: Uniform allowance, Government Housing may be available. That's a benefit. Also maybe "Emergency Alarm Response required" is a requirement not benefit. So we can create Benefits section with those.
Pay and Schedule not present, so omit.
Thus output:
Responsibilities
- ... duties list ...
We need to preserve all substantive information from duties paragraph. The duties paragraph is a long run-on sentence. We need to split into list items for each duty. We should not invent or summarize away detail. We need to capture each distinct duty.
Let's parse duties:
"Plans and carries out some hatchery data collection on hatchery populations to study health and propagation methods."
"Fish hatchery operations and studies on efficiency may cover breeding, rearing, and/or growing fish in tanks or raceways, caring for fertilized eggs in trays, observing fish behavior in response to feeding, cleaning, and husbandry operations, determining feed regiments, treating fish disease, collecting and recording data (hard copy and digital), operating specialized aquaculture equipment such as gates, pumps, valves, filters, alarms, and other support systems to maintain fish health."
"Uses specialized techniques and methods to collect biological and physical environment data and reports findings."
"Collects biological samples ensuring correct documentation, reporting, storage, transport and delivery of samples taken."
"Develops and uses automated databases to enter, organize and perform preliminary analysis of collected field data."
"Works with hatchery crew in providing daily care to fish in an aquaculture facility."
"Performs assignments and general maintenance required for general fish hatchery upkeep and maintenance including simple hand tools or power equipment, landscaping tools (grass mowers, shrub trimmers, etc.), and other tools for minor repairs on hatchery equipment."
"Works with 5 additional hatcheries in implementing their work plans to accomplish the Complex mission."
"Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level."
We need to keep all that. We'll make each as
Responsibilities
- ... duties list ...