Job opening: Engineering Technician
Salary: $19 per hour
Published at: Dec 06 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
These positions may be filled for a six month seasonal period, but can vary due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: March-July 2025.
For more park(s) information, select "Learn more about this agency" below:
Duties
Be a successful applicant. Watch this 5 minute video to learn how to create a federal resume.
Assists Project Team Leader for architecture and engineering related projects: Collects data, historic research from files, researching technical reports.
Assists in the preparation of graphs, charts, text or tables to be used by the project team.
Travels to sites throughout Glacier National Park to collect data, including taking measurements, and photographs, conduct survey, assess buildings and monitor facility and construction activities.
Use Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems to present collected data.
Provides technical information about historic architecture: may conduct simple presentations within the park, outside groups or professional meetings.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/19/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.
To qualify for this position at the GS-05 grade level, you must possess one full year of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:
Specialized Experience: Examples include drafting, surveying, physical science, mathematics, architecture, electrical or mechanical systems, mining or petroleum systems, Experience in trade or craft may be credited as specialized experience when the work provided intensive knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, methods and precedents. Examples are trade positions with substantial developmental, test or design responsibilities such as *planner who analyzed designs for production purposes, *instrument maker or model maker who performed design or development work on devices fabricated.
OR
Education and Training: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study in an appropriate field of engineering, construction, or industrial technology; OR that included at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as engineering, engineering or industrial technology, construction, physics, drafting, surveying, physical science, or mathematics. At least 6 of the 24 semester hours must have been in drafting if the position has been designated by a drafting area of specialization.
Engineering technicians may be certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies, an organization sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Certification by the Institute will be helpful as a measure of the technician's quality of experience.
OR
Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. For example, 6 months of the specialized experience (50% of the experience requirement), and 3 years of undergraduate education from an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education) would qualify. You must include transcripts if qualifying in part, through education.
Volunteer Experience: 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.
ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.
Education
To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an
accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
If you are using
education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
Contacts
- Address Glacier National Park
PO Box 128
West Glacier, MT 59936
US
- Name: Britni Johnson
- Email: [email protected]
Map