Electronics Technician

Federal Emergency Management Agency•Round Hill, VA

About The Position

The Electronics Technician serves on the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Facilities Management Division, Maintenance Branch, HVAC team. The role focuses on testing, maintaining, installing, programming, and repairing electronic systems, with relevant expertise in network infrastructure and integrating software and hardware for building automation or security and access control systems. Systems may include SCADA monitoring, building management, fire alarm, security, access control, camera, and lighting systems. The technician monitors system performance, operator activity, and alarms; provides technical guidance to contractors and assists with Contracting Officer’s Representative duties; and prepares sketches and alternative layouts to determine installation arrangements when standard specifications are unavailable. MWEOC employees have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place. Exercises and activations may require long hours, nights, weekends, holidays, and recall during emergencies. Work may take place above or below ground. Employees must use a government-issued electronic device, including a cellular phone, and may be required to deploy with little or no notice to locations throughout the United States and its territories for extended periods. Travel may be extensive and involve austere, operationally challenging conditions. Selected candidates must attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding; FEMA covers travel expenses.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Successfully pass and maintain a Top Secret/SCI background investigation and clearance; selected applicants may undergo a credit check and review of financial, criminal, and drug-related matters.
Register with the Selective Service, if applicable.
Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements, including 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
Ability to deploy with little or no advance notice anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period.
For GS-10: one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-09, including servicing, maintaining, and repairing specified analog or digital electronic systems; preparing sketches and layouts for component installations to meet industrial and site-specific commissioning standards; and developing specifications for modifying, testing, or repairing new and existing equipment.
For GS-11: one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-10, including servicing, maintaining, and repairing specified analog or digital electronic systems; preparing sketches and layouts for component installations to meet industrial and site-specific commissioning standards; and developing specifications for modifying, testing, or repairing new and existing equipment.
No educational substitution is available; applicants must meet the experience qualifications.
A one-year probationary period is required for new Federal competitive service employees and new supervisors or managers.
Position is subject to random drug testing under FEMA’s Drug-Free Workplace Plan.
Applicants must provide a resume of no more than two pages with required employment dates, duties, accomplishments, skills, hours worked per week, and applicable federal grade, series, and grade dates.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in network infrastructure and integrating software and hardware for Building Automation Systems or Security and Access Control Systems.
Experience with maintenance standards and repair procedures; planning and directing installation of complex systems; circuit design and equipment performance evaluation; testing and evaluating electronic systems; calibration and test equipment; or troubleshooting systems using wiring diagrams, schematics, drawings, and specifications.

Responsibilities

Test, maintain, install, program, modify, and repair electronic systems, including SCADA monitoring, building management, fire alarm, security, access control, camera, and lighting systems.
Install, repair, modify, maintain, and program digital and analog systems and components, including building automation controllers, flow meters, valve actuators, pressure sensors, relays, electronic locks, card readers, motion sensors, and surveillance cameras.
Perform programming tasks for related systems and hardware in areas such as building automation, security systems, infrastructure support systems, computer equipment, and system software.
Monitor system performance, daily operator activity, and alarms.
Review contractor installation projects and provide technical guidance; assist with Contracting Officer’s Representative-related duties.
Develop original working sketches and alternative layouts for component installations, support systems, and related equipment when specifications are not available from traditional sources.
Respond to emergency assignments and recall; deploy as required, including to locations outside the official duty station.
Attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding.