Supervisory Electronics Technician (Wildland Fire)

Office of the Secretary of the Interior • Boise, ID

3d • Onsite

About The Position

One position at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, ID. The incumbent of this position serves as an interagency focal point for RAWS (Remote Automatic Weather Stations) in connection with training, quality assurance, technical evaluation, and system improvement activities. This role ensures work is performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with DOI and USWFS policy, interagency standards, and mission requirements. The position provides senior technical direction and performs or oversees troubleshooting, repair, calibration, modification, testing, inspection, and evaluation of various electronic and meteorological systems. The incumbent analyzes malfunctions, resolves complex technical discrepancies, and adapts methods to address new technologies and requirements. They also direct quality control, maintenance documentation, and oversee training for personnel. The role involves serving as a lead instructor for training programs for RS/FWSU personnel and interagency partners.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Must be 18 years of age at time of close date of announcement.
• You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
• Incumbent will be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.
• If new to the federal government, and this is your first appointment, as a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period.
• At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level, or higher in the Federal service, or equivalent.
• Examples of specialized experience include: Troubleshooting, repairing, calibrating, testing, inspecting, and certifying complex electronic, meteorological, telemetry, communications, satellite-related, power, and electro-mechanical systems.
• Analyzing equipment malfunctions, degraded performance, and recurring failures to identify causes and implement corrective actions involving interdependent hardware, software, firmware, sensors, circuitry, and communications components.
• Applying advanced practical electronics knowledge to resolve difficult technical problems, adapt troubleshooting methods, and evaluate modified or upgraded equipment when established procedures did not fully address operating conditions.
• Conducting operational testing and technical evaluations to determine system functionality, reliability, compliance with established standards, and readiness for service.
• Providing technical assistance, maintained maintenance and certification documentation, and coordinated with technical personnel, vendors, interagency partners, and system users to resolve equipment and operational support issues.
• Your 2 page 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 total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time or part-time, hours must be included ).
• If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.
• Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted.
• You may only submit one resume.
• Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section will be used to determine your qualifications/eligibility and for rating purposes.
• In the event you submit more than one resume, only the latest submission will be reviewed.
• If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualifications or specialized experience a rating of "ineligible" or "not qualified" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Serves as an interagency focal point for RAWS in connection with training, quality assurance, technical evaluation, and system improvement activities.
• Ensures work is performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with DOI and USWFS policy, interagency standards, and mission requirements.
• Provides senior technical direction and performs or oversees difficult troubleshooting, fault isolation, teardown, repair, calibration, modification, testing, inspection, startup, certification, return-to-service, and operational evaluation of RAWS, telemetry devices, sensors, data communication equipment, radio frequency components, satellite-related equipment, power systems, local and direct readout ground station components, digital and analog circuitry, meteorological systems and subsystems, and associated electro-mechanical assemblies.
• Analyzes malfunctions, degraded performance, recurring failures, and unusual system behavior to determine probable cause and appropriate corrective action.
• Recognizes and resolves complex technical discrepancies and provides solution options to the manager.
• Applies advanced practical electronics knowledge to resolve difficult problems not fully addressed by existing instructions, standard maintenance procedures, or manufacturer guidance, and adapts methods, troubleshooting approaches, and work processes to address modified equipment, changing technology, remote operating conditions, unusual failure patterns, prototype systems, and new mission requirements.
• Performs or directs applied testing, operational evaluation, configuration assessment, and method improvement activities involving newly designed, modified, or upgraded meteorological systems, subsystems, equipment, parts, procedures, and support methods to determine functionality, reliability, operational effectiveness, and compliance with established standards and mission requirements.
• Provides technical expertise to the assigned organizational unit and the interagency RAWS user community in resolving complex systems malfunctions, support problems, and system improvement issues.
• Directs, coordinates, and oversees quality control, certification, maintenance documentation, repair histories, production or support records, labor utilization, equipment accountability, and related reporting associated with the electronics function.
• Ensures employees maintain required technical proficiency, operational knowledge, and safety awareness needed to perform depot, field, and travel-related electronics work.
• Provides or oversees formal and informal technical instruction, cross-training, refresher training, and on-the-job training related to maintenance procedures, testing methods, installation practices, troubleshooting techniques, certification requirements, quality standards, safety practices, and support procedures.
• Serves as lead instructor for RS/FWSU personnel training and annual maintenance and instructional classes which provide pertinent information to interagency partners and associated personnel.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.
• A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position.
• A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the Department of Interior either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the agency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed