This is a Direct Hire Public Notice. Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration. This position is located in the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) with one vacancy in Seattle, WA.

Duties

As a Research Physical Scientist, you will perform the following duties: - As a senior expert in the assigned area, provide an authoritative source of technical guidance to other functional specialists both internal and external to the organization. Responsible for an assigned program, project, or special tasks involving performance of scientific studies and analyses; develop data applications and systems designed to collect and assess scientific information in support of the program or project. - Conduct and provide responsibility for all aspects and phases of complex research work including: planning and conducting experiments; collecting analyzing and interpreting data; drawing conclusions; making recommendations for future work required; and publishing technical reports and peer reviewed papers and giving scientific presentations on the research findings. - Utilize a broad, expert knowledge of computer-based spatial data analysis, quantitative geography, and digital cartography to solve problems that extend beyond normal day-today operations, i.e., where problem definition and available data are incomplete or highly uncertain. - Develop, integrate, and operate aerosol payloads on uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). Develop software to operate the instrumentation and display real-time results during flight.

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. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience OR substitution of education for experience OR combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: EDUCATION: 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. 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 at the ZP-4 or GS-13 grade level: Specialized Experience: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Performing research on the emission, formation, transformation, and removal of aerosols in the atmosphere and analyzing and preparing findings in technical reports and presentations; - Providing oversight and maintaining uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) operations to include calibrating and documenting the performance of UAS aerosol payloads and operating aerosol instrumentation in laboratory containers during land-based and ship-based field studies; and - Analyzing, assessing and presenting recommendations to management based on scientific and technical studies and evaluations.

Education

• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation
• College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Contacts

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