Ofc of the State Engineer
08/23/2024
Continuous Job Opening
146385
Albuquerque
Full-Time
Regular – PERM for State
Salary
$35.15 – $56.24 Hourly
$73,112 – $119,979 Annually
This position is a Pay Band EF
Posting Details
The Water Rights Abstract Bureau (WRAB) staff populates and administers the Water Administration Technical Engineering Resource System (WATERS) database. The WRAB staff members enter water right elements as described in permits, licenses, and court orders into the database for use by water managers, appropriators, and other stakeholders in the state’s water resources. Staff members scan documents and archive the original water right files for completed areas to ensure the files do not deteriorate. All abstracted files are available to the public through the Office of the State Engineer website’s New Mexico Water Rights Reporting System (NMWRRS).
For more information about the Office of the State Engineer/Interstate Stream Commission, please visit our website https://www.ose.state.nm.us/
Why does the job exist?
This staffer distributes and tracks incoming documents to ensure that junior staffers timely enter the information into the water rights database. The job includes fielding questions from the OSE district offices’ staffs. It also includes training agency personnel on data entry procedures and quality controlling trainees’ work. This includes domestic well files and non-domestic water rights files.
This position assists managers with the following: drafting abstracting project plans; writing instructions; establishing deadlines; providing direction to junior staff; and serving as task lead on abstracting projects.
This position also writes and runs database queries in Microsoft Access using the WATERS database tables.
This position occasionally operates the Feith client and Feith Volume Information Processing systems to image documents.
How does it get done?
As a senior abstractor, the employee maintains an open-door policy for interruption to answer junior staff member’s questions. The employee travels to district offices, potentially overnight, to discuss upcoming projects, retrieve files, and train staff.
This position has a working knowledge of Feith imaging software, imaging procedures and standards, as well as the bureau’s archive system.
Good attitude, dependability, adaptability, and other interpersonal skills are essential.
Who are the customers?
Ideal Candidate
2. Excellent working knowledge of the administrative processes of the Water Rights Division and an understanding of adjudication proceedings.
3. Five years’ experience creating, populating, and maintaining ArcGIS geodatabases.
4. Two years’ experience writing and running Microsoft Access database queries with knowledge of the WATERS tables and ODBC connections.
5. Experience training staff.
Minimum Qualification
Substitution Table
These combinations of education and experience qualify you for the position:
| Education | Experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High School Diploma or Equivalent | AND | 8 years of experience |
| 2 | Associate’s degree | AND | 6 years of experience |
| 3 | Bachelor’s degree | AND | 4 years of experience |
| 4 | Master’s degree | AND | 2 years of experience |
| 5 | PhD degree | AND | 0 years of experience |
• Education and years of experience must be related to the purpose of the position.
• If Minimum Qualification requires a specific number of “semester hours” in a field (e.g. 6 semester hours in Accounting), applicants MUST have those semester hours in order to meet the minimum qualifications. No substitutions apply for semester hours.
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Agency Contact Information: Chris Gallegos (505) 383-4118. Email
For information on Statutory Requirements for this position, click the Classification Description link on the job advertisement.
