You will serve as a METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN in the NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHY OPERATIONS COMMAND (NOOC) of NAVAVNFCSTCEN.

Duties

You will measure meteorological phenomena with scientific equipment and instrumentation. You will select the optimum route for an ocean voyage by choosing the least-time route that avoids meteorological and sea state hazards using meteorological and wave height forecast charts from national sources. You will serve as the direct meteorological advisor to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) Commander. Commanding officers or Masters of vessels engaged in sustained military operations or long-haul transits in the world’s oceans. You will be the RESIDENT technical expert in long range environmental forecasting and his/her recommendations significantly influence the ship’s Master or Commanding Officer’s route decision. You will monitor the threat of tropical cyclones in relations to ships in port and recommending the optimum time and location to sortie to sea and/or remain in port to avoid hazardous conditions associated with the tropical cyclone. You will be the technical expert in short, medium, and long-range deterministic and probabilistic environmental forecasting techniques including atmospheric patterns, tropical cyclones, ocean currents and complex sea state. You must be able to produce the best possible forecast and ship routing assistance, under great stress, often based on incomplete meteorological data and in a very short time. You will analyze, interpret, evaluate and validate raw and computer processed meteorological data received through various communication means, including satellite, Doppler radar and ship/station/buoy weather sensing instruments. You will analyze oceanographic data for verification of forecasts and is primarily responsible for issuing Fleet Weather Center's High Wind and or Sea Warnings. You will provide briefing and advice to a variety of flag officer staffs, Navy and Joint, as well as to the Commanding officer and other personnel on all aspects of the sciences of meteorology and oceanography that impacts fleet exercises/operations.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• This is a Mission Essential position. You will be required to ensure organization or facility continuity of operations and/or completion of tasks that are considered essential to the mission designated by a local or command decision.

Qualifications

To qualify for the METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN, GS-1341-11, your resume must demonstrate at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the GS-10 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience using a high level of meteorological training and proven expertise to demonstrate understanding of atmospheric and oceanic physical processes; varied climatic regimes; synoptic, mesoscale, and microscale weather and ocean forecasting; tropical cyclone forecasting; and polar weather forecasting. Experience developing an accurate and precise short, medium and long range marine forecast for locations with large weather extremes, geographically-unique regional & local wind regimes and with limited observational data. Experience utilizing cutting-edge numerical ensemble atmospheric and ocean wave models, determining climate anomalies, seasonal and decadal trends, climatological forecasts and analysis of long range forecast model trends using probabilistic guidance, measuring forecast confidence and assessing operational risk to ships and embarked assets. Experience observing, decoding, and analyzing ship, buoy and land station weather observations in order to evaluate meteorological systems for conformity with existing and newly-implemented Navy, national and foreign atmospheric and oceanographic numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Experience in naval operational meteorology and marine forecasting, including a practical knowledge of applied oceanographic wave and surface current concepts sufficient to assess the effects on navigation and associated ship routing operations. Experience and familiarity with marine navigation and seamanship practices including operational limits of multiple ship classes performing various common fleet missions. Experience communicating effectively both orally and in writing to prepare technical meteorological advisory products and to deal with various military and other organizational support representatives often at the highest national interest level. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Contacts

• Address NAVAVNFCSTCEN OPS Department Norfolk, VA 00000 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]