Employee recommends the most effective methods to achieve required results based on meteorological knowledge. Work is spot checked for accuracy, conformance to desired standards, timeliness and compliance with policies. Work situations may require the performance of work when supervision is entirely absent or not available. Guidelines are generally adequate. Significant judgment is required to adapt or interpret these guidelines, instructions and precedent material to specific assignments.
Assignments are of moderate scope and complexity with defined goals and expectations.
Assignments involve planning, estimating costs, performing and recording observations, making substitutions for missing data, etc. Situations may exist where decisions must be made while working alone on a shift or where plans must be changed while work is in progress. The work contributes to the success and efficiency of operational meteorological services, to improve data quality, to monitor station performance or to alert concerned public officials. Work products may influence planning decisions involving many thousands of dollars or may affect lives. Other contacts include contracting officials, universities, customers, and the general public.