This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), Science and Engineering Branch (SEB), with one vacancy in Lakeland, FL. This position is also announced under vacancy number OMAO-24-12558771-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As an Electronics Technician, you will perform the following duties:

Requirements

Qualifications

Physical Requirements: The work requires some physical exertion, such as long periods of standing, recurring bending, crouching, stooping or the lifting of moderately heavy objects. Work Environment: Work involves regular and recurring moderate risks that may require the use of special safety precautions or devices. The incumbent works around machines, moving parts and other potentially hazardous items. Condition of Employment: This position requires that the incumbent engage in mission flights, which may include flights into severe storms, and perform the duties of this position and NOAA Air Crewmember duties during these flights. As a crewmember is subject to drug testing. Physical demands involve the lifting and handling of equipment in excess of 50 pounds in a cramped environment and a considerable amount of walking, stooping, crawling and climbing. The incumbent is required to meet and maintain the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) Air Crewmember medical requirements and the aeromedical requirements of any assigned duties. The position requires extensive knowledge of accepted aircraft wiring procedures, AOC installation procedures and avionics maintenance procedures. The position requires strict adherence to safety procedures due to the potentially hazardous environment into which flights are made, and systems involving explosive and incendiary devices. Travel for extended periods of time is a requirement of the position. Travel status of up to 90 days per year and for periods of four to six weeks at a time is not uncommon. 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 GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-10 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Operating, troubleshooting, and repairing of Flight essential Avionics equipment, such as Electronic Flight Display Systems (EFDS), Flight Management Systems, Attitude, Heading, Altitude, Airspeed, or Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) Indicators; Using diagrams to troubleshoot and repair electrical equipment and instrumentation, such as Digital Fuel Quantity System (DFQS), Engine Instrument Display System (EIDS), Turbine Inlet Temperature (TIT) Indication, oil and fuel quantity or pressure indications; and Using diagrams in troubleshooting and repairing airframe and engine electrical systems, such as the engine driven generators, Supervisory Panels, Transformer Rectifiers, or relays.

Education

Substitution of education for specialized experience is not applicable to this vacancy.

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]