Engineering Technician (Mechanical)

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About the Position: The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), a subordinate research laboratory under the U.S.

Army Medical Research and Development Command, is the lead medical biological defense research laboratory for the DOD Chemical Biological Defense Program.

For additional information about USAMRIID and Fort Detrick, please visit http://usamriid.health.mil and http://www.detrick.army.mil.

USAMRIID is participating in an alternative personnel system known as the Personnel Demonstration Project (PDP). The DE-03 payband is equivalent to the GS-09 step 1 to GS-11 step 10 level.

In keeping with the Demonstration pay fixing policies, employees earning a salary that falls within this payband equivalent, will not receive an immediate pay increase (promotion) if appointed to this position.

Future pay increases within the payband will be accomplished through the pay for performance management system.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Current Term Defense Health Agency HQs Research and Development Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) Maintenance and operation engineering support of Heating Ventilation Air Condition and Refrigeration (HVAC/R) and building controls for biocontainment systems; (2) Troubleshooting issues with HVAC/R biocontainment systems in direct support of research staff; AND (3) Servicing industrial systems to include HVAC/R, mechanical, and electrical.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (DE-02/GS-08).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Proficiency in engineering and operational aspects of all building components and systems such as electrical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, refrigeration systems, pneumatics, chillers, and Building Controls.
• Troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance along with engineering and operational aspects of building components/systems such as electrical, plumbing, heating and air-conditioning, refrigeration systems, pneumatics, chillers, and Building controls.
• Work requires knowledge of engineering principles and building systems for HVAC design and maintenance;
• Building automation systems and will be accomplished in extreme temperature environments, in locations such as ladder necessary access, crawl spaces, drop ceilings, and laboratories.
• Work requires incumbent to understand the inter-relationships of all facilities systems and the impact of one system on the others.