Overview
As a Meteorologist with the National Weather Service/NOAA, you will serve as an Operational Forecaster responsible for producing and communicating life-saving impact-based weather, water, and climate hazard warnings and forecasts across the Western United States. This is a developmental position with a clear career path from GS-05 to Full Performance Level GS-12, requiring you to integrate complex environmental data and deliver critical forecasts that protect public safety and property.
Job Description
As a Meteorologist, you will perform the following duties: - Integrate, with occasional assistance, forecast weather, water, and climate hazards with associated societal risks to produce and communicate life-saving impact-based warnings, advisories, outlooks and general forecasts, providing initial review of data to ensure accuracy, precision, and timeliness. - Support the development, production and delivery of interpretive services by providing, with occasional assistance, most Impact Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) that include tailored products, specialized notifications, remote briefings, and/or on-site deployments to a set of core partners that share a role in public safety and protection of property. - Collect, assess, analyze, and integrate a complete set of environmental data in order to provide forecasts of critical elements at global, synoptic, and increasingly finer meso-scale levels. - Assist in the collaboration and co-creation with colleagues while leveraging the talents of others to improve and optimize the day-to-day operational functions of the Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs)/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). NOTE: These duties are described at the GS-09 level; the GS-05 and GS-07 are developmental leading to such performance. All positions are developmental to the Full Performance Level (FPL) GS-12. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: - The work is performed in a typical office setting. Rotating shift work is required with the WFO and/or National Center in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. - Incumbent must maintain sharp mental focus during highly stressful events. QUALIFICATIONS: This Standing Register Job Announcement establishes an applicant pool under Direct Hire Authority to fill full-time permanent positions at multiple NWS locations as vacancies occur.