This is professional work in geology performing a variety of difficult technical duties in conjunction with the study and investigation of the earth's structure and composition.
Work includes supervising staff who assist in conducting field investigations.
New, unusual, or complex work situations are almost always referred to a superior for advice. Work is periodically checked for progress and conformance to established policies and requirements. Where the employee is confronted with a variety of duties susceptible to different methods of solution which, in turn, places a correspondingly higher demand upon resourcefulness and concentration. Positions which require the analysis and evaluation of raw data and the rendering of conclusions would, in many instances, fall into this category. Work is of a standardized nature that may involve a variety of duties.