This position is covered by Federal Social Security and by the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System. Each application must be accompanied by a transcript of all undergraduate and graduate college or university credit in order for applications to be evaluated. An employee in this class has final responsibility, in a designated area of the state, for the accuracy and completeness of the field operations and interpretation of soil properties. Work includes the application of national guidelines to fit local circumstances and the correlation of past survey information to the survey in progress. The employee confers with public officials, property owners and others on matters of major importance concerning soil and water programs.
Supervision is exercised over subordinate technical and professional staff.
General supervision and administrative direction are received from the program office and federal reviewers. Two years as a Soil Scientist II with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The minimum experience and training qualifications statement represents the minimum experience and training standards which will be used to admit or reject applicants for tests, provided that equivalent substitution will be permitted in case of deficiencies in either experience or education.