The employee is responsible for resolving most conflicts among project parties, and informing supervisor. The employee independently plans and carries out the projects and selects the approaches and methods to be used in solving problems. Completed projects are reviewed to determine that objectives have been met and are in compliance with agency policies and regulations. This employee is responsible for managing the project budget, and for approving payments to subcontractors. Procurement guidelines exist for contract development and, though they may not be completely applicable and employee will need to draw on negotiation ability to complete the process.
Projects involve a broad range of tasks and methods.
These can include relatively defined tasks like evaluation and procurement of equipment and materials, or investigating and evaluating options for shipping materials. The purpose of the work is to advance the management of groundfish by improving the estimate of total catch, primarily through ongoing collection of information on discards to complement current shoreside information on landed catch. This will be accomplished by improving the estimate of total catch of prohibited species, and collecting better biological and economic information from the groundfish fishery. It will also provide a timely and efficient system for collection, storage, analysis and communication of information. Incorrect decisions may result in an inability to collect required data, inappropriate or unnecessary expenditures of project funds and loss of agency and industry support for the project.