This position is located in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations, Assistant for Operations Branch. The supervisor is Matt Meyer, Deputy Assistant for Operations. This position is non-bargaining.  Expenses associated with relocation may be paid. This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure and Security Ownership restrictions reporting requirements.  Occasional travel is required.  There may be additional selections made from this vacancy announcement.

Duties

As the Executive Technical Assistant (ETA), you will be responsible for: (1) developing, evaluating, coordinating, reviewing, monitoring and, as otherwise assigned, advising the Office of the Executive Director for Operations (OEDO), Deputy Executive Directors for Operations (DEDOs), Assistant for Operations (AO), and Deputy Assistant for Operations on administrative and technical issues affecting the effectiveness and efficiency of those NRC program offices responsible for implementing agency-wide policies, programs, and assigned work products; (2) timely review of work products for alignment on EDO key messages in the assigned NRC program areas; (3) maintaining a general knowledge of major OEDO and assigned NRC program work underway; (4) identifying major issues requiring OEDO management attention to improve office effectiveness in completing assigned work; (5) coordinating with and remaining cognizant of key interfaces and issues between NRC program offices, with ACRS, with the Commission staff, with offices that report to the Commission, and with key external stakeholders and industry groups; (6) remaining cognizant of selected activities and assignments of other OEDO ETAs and Communication Specialist; and serve as a backup to related activities; and (7) as assigned, representing the OEDO on interoffice or interagency Task Groups to prepare recommended NRC policy and practice.

Requirements

• This is a Drug Testing position.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must be able to meet/maintain security & suitability requirements.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower (GG-14) grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience includes experience that demonstrates a broad knowledge of, and ability to interpret and apply, applicable NRC rules, regulations, policies, practices and procedures, the ability to identify major issues, and demonstrate analytical ability to plan and organize a variety of program functions with effective communication skills. A description of how you possess the specialized experience should be addressed in your resume and in your responses to the questions. Candidates must have at least one year of experience at the next lower grade level or equivalent by the closing date or no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of the vacancy announcement and before placement in the position.

Education

If you are currently in a 0801 or 1301 series position at the NRC, you are not required to provide your unofficial transcript when applying to this vacancy announcement.  However, if you are applying to this vacancy announcement and are not currently in an 0801 or 1301 position then please provide your unofficial transcript.

Candidates must meet the basic qualifications required for this position in the occupational series listed below: 

GG-0801 (General Engineering Series) Educational Requirements:

Basic Requirements:

1. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

1. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
2. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
3. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
4. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
5. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/

Qualification for 1301 series:

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer Attn: Lisa Feizollahi Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Lisa Feizollahi
• Phone: 301-287-0664
• Email: [email protected]