NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Oceanographic Division has opened 4 journeyman oceanographer positions (ZP-1360-2
and ZP-1360-3) on the USAJOBS website. Below are the details on each of the positions. Applications
will be reviewed for each of the 4 positions. As a note of advice, if qualified, all applicants are encouraged to apply under both the status and nonstatus announcements.
1 position will be in the Datums team
1 position will be on the User Services Team
1 position will be on the CECAT Team (currents)
1 position will be with the Modeling Group.
The announcement will be open from now until September 9th.
The DE (nonstatus) vacancy announcement (Announcement # NOS-COOPS-2009-0009) can be viewed at:
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx? ... anographer
The MAP (status) vacancy announcement (Announcement # NOS-COOPS-2009-0010) can be viewed at:
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx? ... anographer
For the modeling position desired skills and abilities include: an interest in operational coastal modeling, knowledge in physical oceanography, hydrodynamic coastal models including ROMS and FVCOM, and computer programming (fortran, unix, netcdf).
This position will be focused on assisting with the transition of the hydrodynamic forecast models from development to operations and to assist in the operational oversight of the model systems.