Supervisory Electronics Engineer

Summary

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Observations (OBS), Surface and Upper Air Division (SUAD), Logistics Management Branch (LMB), National Reconditioning Center (NRC), with 1 vacancy in Grandview, MO. This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS-27-13100070-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 a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, you will perform the following duties: As the Chief of the National Reconditioning Center (NRC), manage a team responsible for the repair and testing of the complex electronic equipment of all National Weather Service (NWS) programs, such as radars, computers, and remote sensing systems. Coordinate technical activities for the effective integration of all technical elements into a cohesive national Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) and NEXRAD integrated logistics program (ILP) for the NWS and for agencies serviced as NWS Primary Inventory Control Activity (PICA). Provide coordination with technical activities, PICA requirements, and with the design, development, procurement, production, storage, distribution, maintenance, utilization and categorization of spare parts and equipment to be supported by the Office of Observations (OBS). Manage, control, and continuously operate automated software programs in direct support of ASOS and NEXRAD. Analyze, develop, and use engineering models and systems to optimize ASOS and NEXRAD logistics through the development of a logistics life-cycle plan. Provide inspections and analyses of newly repaired equipment and systems. Guide and monitor the National Logistics Support Center (NLSC) in the management and operation of a diverse range of ASOS and NEXRAD items, stocked and distributed by NLSC, used to resolve engineering, quality assurance, and other issues. Provide strategic planning support to senior management to assist in setting agency and the Surface and Upper Air Division's (SUAD) goals. Direct and develop plans for NRC program teams or other groups in accomplishing and producing projects and studies. Provide recommendations, advice and support to the SUAD Director on the composite impact of common and cross-cutting program issues, and requirements, NWS integrated work team activities, and solutions and proposals for supporting and improving NWS observations programs and projects. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of line program operations in meeting established goals and objectives. Represent the organization in reaching compromises and agreements. Serve as Contracting Officer Representative Level II (COR), and is responsible for the review of contracts and contracting actions to manage and ensure effective and efficient operations. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: The incumbent is required to have or obtain within two- year and maintain Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers (FAC-P/PM) Level II. Must be able to obtain a FAC-COR Level II Certification within two years of assignment and maintain qualifications after that.

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 BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: To qualify for the 0855 series: EDUCATION: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience: college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. -AND- 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., pr