This position is located in the Deployment Branch (T/EB/D) of the Broadcast Technologies Division (T/EB) of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Office of Technology, Services and Innovation (TSI), Engineering and Transmission Directorate (T/E). The Directorate is charged with providing worldwide engineering support for the establishment, maintenance and repair of USAGM transmission systems.

Duties

As an Electronics Engineer, you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to: Responsible for the design and development of programs in his/her specialty area for overseas and domestic broadcasting facilities; major work activities involve planning, designing and implementing remote control and monitoring hardware and software systems. Serves as an authoritative technical source within the Division in the application of engineering theories and concepts to the design and development of FM broadcasting systems and subsystems to meet USAGM's requirements. Serves as an FM operations and maintenance engineer and provides oversight or troubleshooting work in handling broadcast outages, incidents, and other operations issues. Conducts diagnostic work of remote USAGM broadcast sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel. Develops and maintains remote monitoring and control systems for broadcast equipment using Microsoft NET Core and Azure cloud services and IoT gateways over low bandwidth connections. Participate in customization and interfacing enterprise software such as Microsoft Dynamics customer and field service and Azure IoT Central in the USAGM TSI Broadcast Technologies FM Operations area. Will produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards related to the USAGM international broadcasting operations. Designs, recommends or performs appropriate action for new FM facilities or modifications to existing facilities to include transmitter installation, satellite receiving systems; inter-site communication links; monitoring system, subsystem and system compatibility analyses and worldwide telecommunications systems to interconnect all USAGM facilities. Performs extensive analysis of engineering objectives to determine projects scope, design criteria, special requirements and constraints. Reviews, evaluates and analyzes proposals. Develops data regarding technical requirements and ensures appropriate integration during the advanced engineering and technical development phases. Maintains comprehensive knowledge of advances in the state-of-the-art technology areas related to the USAGM engineering program and recommends those having potential for inclusion into the program. Participates in the development and design of broadcasting systems, subsystems and technical facilities world-wide to meet USAGM global objectives. Recommends modifications, applications and advances which will enhance the reliability and maintainability of USAGM's global broadcasting network. Serves as a project manager for the construction and implementation of new FM broadcast transmission facilities and for other projects as necessary. Reviews and analyzes deficiencies and problem areas and assists in the timely resolution and validation of their solutions.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National
• This is a non-critical sensitive moderate position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86.
• Suitability Determination: If selected, you may be subject to a background investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation may include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
• This position is covered by a Union Agreement IB1029 AFGE Local 1812, 330 Independence Avenue S.W. Room 1169, Washington, D.C. 20237, [email protected], (202)920-4884.
• The full performance grade level for this position is GS-14.
• If you are a male applicant who is born after 12/31/59, you are required to be registered for the Selective Service.
• Unofficial transcripts are required at the time of application if the applicant is not currently or a former federal employee in the Engineering series.

Qualifications

To qualify for the GS-13: In addition to meeting the basic requirement (positive education/experience) outlined above, you must have at least one year of specialized or equivalent experience to the GS-12 level that demonstrated the following: Examples of experience meeting this requirement include positions with most of the following elements: Knowledge of Microsoft.NET, Azure cloud services and IoT gateways. Customization and interfacing software such as Microsoft Dynamics customer and field service and Azure IoT Hub to fit agency operations. Produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards. Experience reviewing and analyzing deficiencies and problem areas and assisting in the timely resolution and validation of solutions. Experience with broadcast operations and maintenance engineering, providing oversight or troubleshooting work in handling broadcast outages, incidents, and other operations issues. Conduct diagnostic work of remote broadcast sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel. Professional and scientific aptitude and interest in design and implementation of radio communications/broadcasting and support systems. Experience performing analyses of engineering objectives to determine project scope, design criteria, special requirements and constraints. Experience reviewing, evaluating, and analyzing proposals. To qualify for the GS-14: In addition to meeting the basic requirement (positive education/experience) outlined above, you must have at least one year of specialized or equivalent experience to the GS-13 level that demonstrated the following: Expert knowledge of Microsoft .NET, Azure cloud services and IoT gateways. Customization and interfacing software such as Microsoft Dynamics customer and field service and Azure IoT Hub to fit agency operations. Produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards. Comprehensive experience with broadcast operations and maintenance engineering, providing oversight or troubleshooting work in handling broadcast outages, incidents, and other operations issues. Conduct diagnostic work of remote broadcast sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel. Demonstrated outstanding professional judgment and technical perception, to ensure timely and innovative incorporation of new performance needs and new technological advances. Expert knowledge of a wide variety of complex and sophisticated communications equipment used in broadcasting, testing techniques and the ability to analyze test performance data and draw authoritative and technically sound conclusions.

Education

A - Basic Qualification for Professional Engineering positions: Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum MUST (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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

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 professional 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: Professional registration -- Current registration as a professional engineer 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.

Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5.

Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A. Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence.

The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A.

Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a 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.)

Transcripts are required at the time of application.

Unofficial copies of transcripts are required at the time of application for applicants that are not currently or previously held an engineering position in the federal government and can be supported by an SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action).

Contacts

• Address
• Name: Arlene Green-Bell
• Phone: 202-920-2400
• Email: [email protected]