This position is located in National Weather Service (NWS), Central Region (CR), with one vacancy in Kansas City, MO. This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS CR MO-24-12331054-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

The working title for this position is Facilities Engineering Technician. As a Facilities Engineering Technician, you will perform the following duties: Responsible for the installation and maintenance of all National Weather Service (NWS) facilities equipment, cabling, hydro-meteorological instrument installation, as well as supporting facilities operations and maintenance (O&M) including: heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, generators, power systems, uninterruptable power, grounding, surge suppression and lightning systems on a routine and an emergency basis. Construct repairs renovations on NWS facilities as needed and resolve operating and support problems for equipment. Serve as the NWS representative or inspector for facilities planning and construction projects, including reviewing and interpreting plans and specifications, recommending and submitting justifications to modify facilities, and preparing specifications working plans, and written instructions to contract work. Develop preventative maintenance and modification schedules for all assigned structure and facilities equipment. Develop project descriptions and cost estimates for facility maintenance, repairs and replacement. Duties described above are at the full performance GS-11 grade level, the GS-09 and GS-10 are developmental intended to prepare for the GS-11.

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. 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. 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 GS-9 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicant must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assisting with property planning, construction projects, or building and equipment maintenance. OR EDUCATION: Master's, equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher education with a major study in an appropriate field of engineering, construction, or industrial technology leading to such a degree, or LLB. Or J.D., if related. OR COMBINATION: A combination of education and experience as described above. Only education in excess of one year is qualifying at this level. To qualify at the GS-10 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicant must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assisting with conducting facilities engineering operations and maintenance functions for grounds, facilities, buildings or related fixtures and equipment. To qualify at the GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicant must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-10 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Conducting facilities engineering operations and maintenance functions for grounds, facilities, buildings and related fixtures and equipment.

Education

• 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.

• Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

• 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

Contacts

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