Job opening: TECHNICAL WRITER-EDITOR (ELECTRONICS)
Salary: $99 200 - 153 354 per year
Published at: Feb 21 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
About the Position: The pay band NH-03 includes the General Schedule grade equivalent to GS-12 to 13. Other initiatives under the Acquisition Demonstration Project include simplified classification, streamlined hiring process and expanded developmental opportunities.
Duties
Manages the publishing and printing of technical manuals covering the theory, operation, and maintenance of a variety of electronic equipment and/or systems.
Provides policy and advice to commodity technical writers to guide them through the technical manual development and/or sustainment process.
Advises commodity technical writers on technical manuals, including interactive electronic technical manual (IETM), acquisition strategy.
Manages the distribution and storage of CECOM technical publications on the Product Data Management (PDM) system.
Responds to field inquiries and requests from other agencies for CECOM technical publications assistance.
Performs the life cycle management of publication documents, developing sources of information pertaining to assigned commodities and verifying and synthesizing such information prior to releasing for publication.
Utilize extensible Markup Language (XML) and Portable Document Format (PDF) to edit and manage electronic documents.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship is required. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Life Cycle Logistics Practitioner certification within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
- One year trial/probationary period may be required.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Military Spouse Direct Hire Authority (DHA) Outside the USPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Experience required: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.
Specialized experience: To qualify, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade/level (NH-02). Specialized experience is defined as: Experience interpreting publication regulatory guidance in order to provide policy and procedural guidance. Experience developing equipment publications to articulate technical information. Experience reviewing and editing equipment publications.
The Control Point for this position is equivalent to GS-13 step 5 at $133,692 including locality at the rate of 33.26%. Management will set the selectee's pay for this position within the control point salary range consistent with the qualifications and education of the selectee and the expected contribution for the position or if the incumbent's salary currently exceeds the GS-13, step 05 level the incumbent' s salary will be put on a salary control point at the incumbents existing salary.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Oral CommunicationPlanning and EvaluatingTechnical CompetenceWriting
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
Applicants must meet basic eligibility requirements such as minimum qualifications, and other regulatory requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.
Education
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Contacts
- Address AD-W4GVAA HQ COMMUNICATION ELECTRONICS CMD
DO NOT MAIL
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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