This position is located with the Forest Service, Chief Information Office (CIO). This position serves as a Supervisory Electronics Technician with primary leadership and maintenance responsibilities for land mobile radio systems within their geographic area. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Justin Parenteau [email protected]

Duties

Provides radio subject matter expertise to the geographical area of supervision. Provides emergency radio communications support and intra- and interagency radio collaboration. Performs tower climbing in order to perform Land Mobile Radio system installation and corrective/preventive maintenance. Supervises and performs testing, acceptance, and user training for Land Mobile Radio system components. Oversees inventory control of radio systems and emergency action plans for all radio sites. Promotes and supports a positive work environment to create a climate of mutual respect and integrity.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Must successfully complete the agency tower certification program no more than six months after being hired and will be required to re-certify periodically as required.
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period (unless prior service is creditable). New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probationary period.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. 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 on Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position. Specialized Experience Requirement: You must have one-year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Providing technical leadership in the development, enhancement, and integration of land mobile radio (LMR) systems; and/or installing, maintaining, repairing, and performing corrective/preventive maintenance on LMR systems, components, and links; and/or supervising and performing implementation, corrective/preventive maintenance; and/or communicating guidelines and performance. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]