This position is located in The Office of the Under Secretary (UNSEC), Office of Space Commerce (OSC), with three vacancies, in Boulder, CO. This position is also announced under vacancy number UNSEC OSC-24-12215103-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Physical Science Technician within the Office of Space Commerce (OSC), you will perform the following duties: Provides technical oversight to a team conducting Space Traffic Coordination activities, to include directing tasks, reviewing assignments, and explaining work tasks and best practices. Ensures safety of flight issues, including commercial spaceflight, conjunction analysis, space debris ephemeris updates, commercial satellite owner/operator coordination/ephemeris updates, pre-launch, launch and early orbit, re-entry support, and database operation. Performs updates that supports an orbital database ensuring safety of navigation in space and performs updates that support conjunction assessment and collision avoidance for other active payloads. Works with external entities to task sensors for direct observation of satellite location in support of safety of navigation in space.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TO QUALIFY FOR THE ZT-5 OR GS-13: Specialized experience: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZT-4 or GS-12 in the Federal service. MUST include all of the following: Validating systems schedules, command programs, orbital data, or operational instructions to support orbital satellite operations; Participating with the ingest, distribution, or processing of spacecraft data to aid in spacecraft control; and Operating ground support equipment for space operations.

Education

There is no education requirement/substitution for this position.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services OHCS 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Michele Davis
• Email: [email protected]