Summary
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Observation (OBS), Radar Operations Center (ROC), Engineering Branch-Hardware Engineering, with 1 vacancy in Norman, OK. This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS-27-13085454-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. 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: Serve as Supervisory Electronics Engineer and hardware engineering subject matter expert for the Engineering Branch, and as the expert authority on NEXRAD hardware. Develop methods, procedures, and approaches for maintaining and supporting multiple radar and observation data collection systems with national impact. Provide project management support for a nationally distributed network of WSR-88D radars. Develop milestones, plans, and projects, and lead all phases of project budget formulation, ensuring alignment with organizational strategic goals. Create strong stakeholder relationships, including with national, regional and local partners, for planning, deployment, and maintenance of national observing systems. Supervise professional electronics engineering staff to support and maintain a national observing program (NEXRAD), which includes the WSR-88D network. Provide high-level coordination and review of multi-faceted program activities being undertaken in diverse locations, setting standards for the work, ensuring completed work is consistent with program objectives and agency policy and goals. Direct hardware engineering projects to sustain weather radars that are deployed across the nation. Perform the full range of supervisory duties for the assigned subordinate staff and manage hardware engineering work, furnishing technical direction to subordinates. Serve as a Contracting Officer Representative Level I (COR), working with the Contracting Officer. Develop technical requirements for contractual support for small to very large ($3M +) sustainment, supply support, obsolescence, and system replacement contracts required for operations. Ensure that contracting actions for a variety of supply, service, or construction contracts is carried out. Provide technical advice to management and contracting officers in order to procure a wide variety of items, and to ensure that contractors meet contract commitments, including the timeliness and delivery of quality goods and services. Prepare and coordinate task order statements, Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statements (PWS), technical specifications, data requirements, and acquisition strategy and source selection plans for upper air, radar, surface meteorological and hydrological measurement equipment and data collection systems. Serve on technical or business committees for evaluating technical, management, or business proposals, and make recommendations to source selection officials. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: This position supports systems hardware operations NWS-wide in a 24 x 7 environment. May be required to provide guidance, consultation and support and work during non-standard working hours, outside of core hours in the event of 24x7 operational issues. This position serves as a COR and is expected to obtain/maintain FAC-P/PM/COR Level I Certification within 18 months of hire.
Requirements
Key Requirements: Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by background investigation. More requirements are listed under Qualifications and Additional Information. Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov) Qualification requirements must be met by closing date of the announcement. Additional Considerations: One year probationary period may be required. A one year supervisory probationary period may be required (probationary period can be served concurrently). Payment of relocation expenses (PCS) is not authorized. This position requires Moderate Risk Security Clearance. Background investigation will be required. Continued employment is subject to applicant's successful completion of security investigation and favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet these requirements will be grounds for termination. *Note: A one year probationary period will be required unless you are a current Department of Commerce (including NOAA) employee and are in the same line of work and with no more than a 30 day break in service. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, for those required to serve a 1-year probationary period, we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: Your performance and conduct; Needs and interests of the agency; Whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and Whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of then Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. Throughout the recruitment and hiring process we will be communicating with you via email; therefore, it is imperative that the email address you provide when applying for this vacancy remains active. Should your email address change, please notify the point of contact identified in the vacancy announcement as soon as possible so that we can update our system.
Education
Substitution of education for specialized experience is not applicable to this vacancy. College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), name of accredited institution, course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken. Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty. Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the application questionnaire and/or evaluation through a manual assessment process, and your responses to any additional assessments (i.e. USAHire) required for this position. Your qualifications will be also be evaluated using a Job Knowledge Test. The Job Knowledge Test is designed to assess technical and professional expertise directly relevant to the requirements of this announcement. This assessment measures the specialized knowledge and skills accumulated over time, which are critical for successful performance in this position. The best-qualified candidates will be identified for referral to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview. CATEGORY RATING: Category rating will be used in the ranking and selection process for this position. Within each category, those entitled to Veterans' preference will be listed at the top of the pre-defined category for which they are placed. The quality categories are Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Preference eligible with a service-connected disability of 10% or more will be listed at the top of the highest quality category (Gold) depending on the position and grade level of the job. For more information on Category Rating, please go to Category Rating. Your responses to the application questions and/or assessment method will determine your placement in the appropriate quality category described above. Your responses must be substantiated by your resume and supporting documents. If you do not respond to the application questions you may be rated ineligible. Candidates placed in the "Gold" category will be identified first for referral to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview. You will be assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Engineering and Technology, Program Management, and Project Management If referred, all relevant documents submitted with your application package will be forwarded to the hiring official for review. To preview the announcement questionnaire, click here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13085455