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. About the Position: Serves as a Meteorological Technician for the Joint Activities located at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. This is a TERM NTE 30 SEP 2026 position.

Duties

Serves as a senior meteorological technician assists military meteorological technicians and is responsible for a variety of positions/roles to include master weather technician, program manager, trainer, and project officer. Provide very complex and highly specialized atmospheric and oceanographic support to operations on post and off post (often at very remote sites) both CONUS and OCONUS. Responsible for planning and establishing data collection, processing and dissemination techniques and procedures for use in new or novel situations in order to meet warfighter requirements. Provides briefings, technical memoranda and periodic reports on data results obtained, and conclusions on the application of new or modified devices or techniques. Prepare detailed climatological impact analyses in support of special operations. Directs the work of assigned team members and serves as spokesman for the organization on technical matters. Provides briefings, technical memoranda and periodic reports on data results obtained, and conclusions on the application of new or modified devices or techniques.

Requirements

• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Top-Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment.
• This position is subject to a pre-employment screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• May require TDY travel over more than 30 days to CONUS and OCONUS locations. This may require travel on military aircraft, ships, and vehicles.
• This position is deployable and may require extended TDY to OCONUS locations. This position requires a pre-employment physical and thereafter prior to OCONUS travel over 30 days.
• This position requires a pre-employment physical and thereafter prior to OCONUS travel over 30 days.
• Term employment is subject to a one-year trial period. Employees serving a trial period can be removed with limited appeal rights.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes coordinating weather support requirements with various civilian and military weather agencies to improve the technical health of a leading-edge operational meteorology center; mentoring other weather technicians in all facets of weather operations from technical/scientific to military operational domains; and researching new weather data types and interfacing with system administration personnel to automate retrieval and processing of new data. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). 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
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk