This position serves as an Electronics Technician within the Iowa City VA Health Care System; the incumbent is responsible for the development and modification of units and the comprehensive management of electronic equipment and systems that have been deemed non-clinical or non-medical.

Duties

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following: Administrative Duties (50%) Prepares both routine and special written reports covering systems and equipment tests, failures, maintenance records, inventories of equipment, parts and supplies, and fire alarms event histories. Develops lesson plans and conducts training for technical, clinical, and law enforcement staff. Acquires and organizes documentation to support systems and uses software to draft schematics or other technical drawings for assembly and fabrication of customized integrated and stand-alone systems. Serves in a consultative capacity to VA construction staff and construction contractors regarding protection of and/or maintenance of systems in occupied buildings. Coordinates with Project Planning staff, Facility Maintenance staff, and contractors. Uses basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking and telecommunications practices to work with OI&T staff and telecommunications contractors to establish, document, and maintain open channels of communication between the main site and all satellite facilities for equipment that is networked between sites. Technical Duties (50%) Researches, designs, configures, installs, modifies, upgrades, troubleshoots, repairs, aligns, programs, and integrates highly complex electronics systems and subsystems used throughout the health care system. Determines when safety systems are to be shut down to avoid false alarms while maintaining an acceptable level of protection for the building and its occupants. Performs timely shutdown and re-activation of the systems. These systems may include, but are not limited to, the following: Nurse call systems Simplex, duplex, network-based and mobile 2-way radio systems In-building cellular phone systems Closed circuit television including video over IP Campus-wide networked fire alarm systems Holdup and panic alarm systems Intrusion alarms Temperature monitoring systems and alarms Medical emergency alarms (code blue, code green, etc.) Televisions, television receiving and broadband distribution systems Access control systems Audio and radio paging systems Patient Elopement systems Building Management Systems May be subject to emergency call back if critical systems and backup systems fail. Acts tactfully and diplomatically in performing functions so there is no disturbance to essential medical center operations. Responsible for notifying the owning service and the Electronics Shop supervisor if equipment or systems should be taken out of service. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Electronics Technician/PD50588A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/25/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-10. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: OPM.Gov/ElectronicsTechnicalSeries0856 You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-10 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: technical support and application of highly complex electronic systems. This support includes: design, installation, modification, evaluations, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, calibration, some preventive maintenance inspections, and user training. NOTE: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week.. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationsComputers and ElectronicsConfiguration ManagementQuality Management 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work can be physically demanding involving walking, sitting, crawling, climbing, standing, and long periods of intense concentration. Lifting of objects between 10 and 50 pounds is common, and on occasion lifting of 100 pound objects is necessary. Working on ladders with arms raised above head for extended periods of time is also common. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Iowa City VA Health Care System 601 Highway 6 West Iowa City, IA 52246 US
• Name: J Danielle Brant
• Phone: 816-231-9614
• Email: [email protected]