Oregon BLM internship possibilities in GIS/Survey - 2019 MANRRS Internship Program

Location: Springfield, OR – Upper Willamette Field Office
Job Title: Forestry Technician, GS 0462
Related Degree: Natural Resources
Position Description:
Work with specialists to attain the objectives of the Field Office in the fields of Silviculture, Botany, Weeds, Wildlife, Hydrology, Soils, and Forestry.


Location: Baker City, OR – Baker Field Office
Job Title: Geologist, GS 1350
Related Degree: Geology, Mining, Engineering
Position Description:
Interns for the minerals program within the Vale District would provide needed support for active and abandoned minerals projects. The Vale District BLM offices process and inspect many small and large mining operations on public lands in eastern Oregon and parts of Washington and Nevada. Inspecting mine operations for compliance with relevant surface management laws and regulations is an important part of the BLM minerals program.


Location: Vale, OR – Malheur Field Office
Job Title: Geologist, GS 1350
Related Degree: Geology, Mining, Engineering
Position Description:
Interns for the minerals program within the Vale District would provide needed support for active and abandoned minerals projects. The Vale District BLM offices process and inspect many small and large mining operations on public lands in eastern Oregon and parts of Washington and Nevada. Inspecting mine operations for compliance with relevant surface management laws and regulations is an important part of the BLM minerals program.


Location: Portland, OR – BLM Oregon State Office-Branch of Geographic Sciences
Job Title: Land Surveyor, GS 1373
Related Degree: Surveying/Geomatics (Forestry, Engineering or GIS degrees with surveying emphasis also acceptable)
Position Description:
The intern(s) will become familiar with the steps of conducting cadastral/lands research and be able to apply knowledge learned from BLM and other federal and state information towards the completion of a cadastral survey. After completion of this field-intensive internship, the student will be familiar with required field and office practices for completion of cadastral surveys, with the hope of finding a candidate for permanent placement to augment our field staff. National agreements and State Office partnerships have identified
skills shortages which need to be addressed in order to meet requirements of performance as set forth in statute, case law and the Departmental Manual. The intended outcome is to use a specific project to give the candidate a broad programmatic view by working through the various phases of its life cycle; from initial concept/request to final product.


Location: Portland, OR – BLM Oregon State Office-Branch of Geographic Sciences
Job Title: Geographer, GS 0150
Related Degree: Geography, Geographic Information Systems
Position Description:
The Land Records Team has an ongoing project converting multiple land tenure documents, including Master Title Plats, Historical Indices and Controlled Index Documents, to a modern geographic database and indexing platform. This project has layers of complexity including extracting and converting tabular data from legacy tabular databases, python code supporting the automation of data capture and transformation, and daily database management tasks. The team is small, with several vacant positions and we have several incomplete tasks that are perfect for an intern to step in and complete. There are data transformation tasks, the organization and cataloging of our python production code, as well as tasks for the future development of our GIS process as we migrate to the newest version of our GIS software.

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