This position is located in the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), with one vacancy in Honolulu, HI. This is a term appointment not to exceed 13 months with possible extensions up to a total of 4 years without further competition. Appointment to this position will not convey permanent status in the Federal service.

Duties

As a Physical Science Technician, you will perform the following duties: Deploy, operate and provide troubleshooting for a variety of autonomous systems (AS) including underwater gliders and subsurface moorings. Collect and process AS engineering, oceanographic, and acoustic data using cloud-based and local-based software. Ensure collected data are of high quality through use of data- and signal-processing methods using hardware appropriate software tools, including programming languages such as Matlab, Python, and/or R. to summarize and analyze data. Conduct or assist with research studies, and developmental projects designed to capitalize on or incorporate the benefits of new science and technology and apply established data collection and analysis techniques and experience to solve basic operational challenges. Track hardware performance, address systemic or acute hardware or operating system issues, and ensure accuracy of information by conducting reviews and tests of information. Prepares written, graphical, or oral products and services and products. Ensures they are concise, appropriate, and easily understood by the audience - follows prescribed formats and quality standards.

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 EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. 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. 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 ZT-3 (GS-9) grade level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZT-2 (GS-8) in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Participating in deploying, operating, or troubleshooting a variety of autonomous systems; Assisting in collecting or processing of oceanographic, acoustic or optical data; and Contributing to the development of oceanographic survey reports or standard operating procedures. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Two full years of graduate education or a master's degree. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience as described above. Note: Only education in excess of one full year of graduate education is qualifying for combination. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: This position requires the operation of a Federal motor vehicle. This position has physical requirements. At sea deployments for up to 90 days per year. Sea duty will necessarily involve operations in remote and offshore areas with daily duties that are conducted in a demanding physical maritime environment. These operations will involve deployment, recovery and operation of AS and other systems while exposed to weather and various sea states, over long, odd hours, and lifting and moving heavy equipment (up to 50 pounds) repeatedly during the day, on an unsteady deck, depending on sea state. Sea deployments may occur on oceanographic research vessels or small boats. Position requires driving a government vehicle for field work, movement of equipment and/or supplies between buildings, acquisition of supplies, or meetings at other locations. Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license to operate a government vehicle.

Education

College Transcript: 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.

Note: 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.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. A listing of these accredited organizations can be found on the Department of Education's website. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation by the closing date of the announcement will result in lost consideration. 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]