This vacancy is for an Electronics Engineer in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce.

Duties

As an Electronics Engineer, you will perform the following duties: Performing assessments of radiocommunications systems to support policy decisions and development of procedures for efficient spectrum utilization and spectrum sharing. Evaluating and analyzing current programs and policies, assessing proposals to resolve problems related to spectrum management issues that have been identified and analyzed by the staff or others, developing and recommending required policy and/or procedural changes. Advising and assisting other Federal departmental offices concerning telecommunications and spectrum management issues reviewing and evaluating the current use and allocation of the radio spectrum; supporting studies that address how use of the electromagnetic spectrum best serves the national interest. Writing and developing engineering reports, presenting and briefing report findings, and working in a team project. Developing timely, accurate, and concise reports on engineering analyses using databases and automated systems to retrieve sort, analyze data, and prepare reports. Performing assessments of major Federal radiocommunications systems to support policy decisions and development of procedures for efficient spectrum utilization and spectrum sharing. Participates in high level conferences, negotiations, and meetings which have significant consequences in obtaining acceptance of new approaches to design or policy issues. Formulating research and development approaches and practices that address spectrum engineering problems. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Electronics Engineer GS-0855-13/14 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience. This position is also advertised under NTIA-OSM-DE-24-12256409, which is open to Merit Promotion eligible applicants. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

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-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ 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. BASIC REQUIREMENT: 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 B. 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. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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). To qualify at the GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience with planning and coordinating spectrum engineering tasks related to radiocommunication systems such as satellites, land mobile communication systems and radars. Experience with performing electromagnetic compatibility studies of radio-communication systems that support an agency or organization's position at domestic and international meetings. Experience with developing domestic policies and processes associated with radio frequency; experience analyzing spectrum us to perform in depth studies. To qualify at the GS-14 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience with presenting spectrum management policy issues in written reports and briefing papers. Experience with resolving radio frequency interference problems associated with spectrum management. Experience with project development, advisory services, and judgement concerning program operations. Experience developing testing and evaluation significant to apply experimental theory.

Education

See Qualifications Above.

Contacts

• Address National Telecommunications and Information Administration 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US
• Name: Yoscheanea Green
• Email: [email protected]