FUL - Land Law Examiner (Minerals)

You will serve as a FUL - Land Law Examiner (Minerals) located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Montana State Office in Billings, Montana. Pay will vary based on grade level and/or duty location for which you're selected. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate. You must reside within 50 miles of 5001 Southgate Drive Billings, MT.

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Applies land and mineral surveying terminology and land record systems to interpret legal land descriptions and determine accurate surface and mineral ownership using maps, plats, legal references, and related guidance. Review and apply laws, regulations, and relevant legal decisions to evaluate mineral-related claims and actions, ensuring all requirements for conditions, applications, patents, or requests are correctly met. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing in order to convey decisions on applications, and to provide responses to questions from the public and other agencies. Ability to utilize computer equipment and software applications to input, manipulate, update, and maintain data and request support. Applies comprehensive knowledge of legal and judicial mineral reference systems to accurately process leases, licenses, patents, permits, sales, and exchanges for leasable, locatable, and saleable minerals, while providing expert guidance to others. Ability to research, analyze and interpret various laws, IBLA decisions, program handbooks and manuals, Executive Orders and agency regulations, in order to process the most complex and unprecedented claims or applications. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship. 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. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest. This probation period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.