Civil Engineer
The incumbent is considered a civil engineer performing one or more of the following duties as development toward a higher level position:
- Makes topographic and alignment surveys of selected projects. Uses surveying instruments and directs party members. Prepares field notes.
- Assists in preparing topographic and detail maps. Transfers field notes into detailed drawings, develops preliminary trail gradients, prepares design data forms, computes project quantities, transfers these quantities and final gradients to plans.
- Makes design calculations and prepares specifications for selected portions of projects for forest development facilities including roads, trails, water and wastewater facilities, buildings, bridges, culverts and other engineering facilities.
- Assists in administration of construction and timber sale projects for adherence to approved plans and specifications. Determines compliance with respect to dimensions, use of designated materials, progress of work, etc.
- Makes preliminary road locations and tests road surfacing material, gathers data for maintenance surveys, participates in inspections, makes boundary line surveys and performs a variety of other duties for work experience and training.
- Performs real property inspections of road and trail bridges, roadways, administrative facilities and water systems.
- Performs other assignments to broaden knowledge of Forest Service activities in areas such as timber, fire, recreation, wildlife and/or business management.
Interested applicants should contact Will Perry, Payette National Forest Supervisory Civil Engineer at 208-634-0767 or william.perry@usda.gov.
About the Forest: The Payette National Forest contains some of Idaho’s most beautiful and diverse country. Located north of Boise in west-central Idaho, the 2.3 million acre forest extends 100 miles west to east, from Hells Canyon to the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. The forest stretches 70 miles between the Main Salmon River to the north and the Weiser River to the south. There are five Ranger Districts, approximately 200 permanent employees, and over 150 temporary seasonal employees during the summer field season. The current Forest priorities are:
- Landscape Restoration focusing on working with collaborative groups to accomplish landscape-scale restoration in the Weiser River and Little Salmon watersheds, which will improve watershed function, habitat for wildlife, recreational opportunities, and reduce hazardous fuels, as well as provide local employment through stewardship contracting.
- Recreation Management supporting developed and dispersed recreation opportunities during both summer and winter seasons across the Forest, stewardship of the Payette’s portion of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, and providing outstanding public service.
- Rangeland Management managing for sustainable rangeland resources such as soil, water and native vegetation while administering livestock grazing permits and monitoring to maintain separation between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep during the grazing season.
- Minerals Management of significant minerals projects and the numerous smaller minerals development projects.
- Wildland Fire Preparedness including training and preparedness to manage wildland fire incidents on the Forest and across the country.
We hope you will consider the Payette National Forest as your future home for career and recreation. More information on the Payette National Forest is available at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/payette
McCall, located in Valley County, lies 100 miles north of Boise on State Highway 55. Sitting at 5,000 feet, it occupies the south shore of beautiful Payette Lake. The population swells from 2,700 to 10-20,000 in the summer during the peak of tourist season and in the winter during the annual Winter Carnival celebration. Total snowfall is over 10 feet, allowing McCall to boast some of the best winter recreation in the state, with snowmobiling, sledding, Nordic and downhill skiing. Brundage and Tamarack Resorts are within a short drive. Summer is shorter than at lower elevations but is ideal, with daytime temperatures in the 70-80s, and a few days in the 90s. Payette Lake provides plenty of swimming, boating, and fishing opportunities in the summer; a state park and adjacent Forest lands provide ample hiking, running and biking trails. Sunshine is common in all seasons. Access to the expansive and remote Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area and Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and Wilderness are located nearby.
McCall is a full-service community that fills most needs. It has a regional hospital, an integrative health clinic, dentists, chiropractors, and optometrists. McCall also has several service stations, two grocery stores, motels, banks, lumber yards, a variety of restaurants, coffee shops, a wide variety of shopping, daycare centers (including a Forest-sponsored daycare), a public and a private golf course and an airport. Numerous churches are located in the surrounding area.
The community has an excellent grade school, new middle school, a high school that serves both Donnelly and McCall, and an alternative school. Numerous extra-curricular activities and electives are available. There is a strong winter sports program, with both downhill and Nordic after school ski programs. For more information: http://www.mdsd.org/
Government housing is available on a very limited basis. Median housing cost is $450,000 Rentals are available from $800 to $1,500/month.
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Communities close to McCall include New Meadows and Council to the southwest, Donnelly and Cascade to the south, and Riggins to the north. All are within an hour’s drive of McCall.
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