Equipment Specialist

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for an Equipment Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes: - Knowledge of the characteristics of material, manufacturing processes and related testing techniques and processes of industrial plant equipment practices related to complex machinery and machine tools and equipment.

- Preparing and estimating man hours and maintenance requirements for industrial plant equipment for repairs, rebuilds, and retrofits.

- Identifying and resolving difficult issues related to IPE machinery such as determining systems/equipment deficiencies, repair/rebuild parts, and resolutions.

- Knowledge of IPE commodities sufficient to develop purchase requests for parts and/or technical data.

- Reviewing and applying technical specifications and requirements - Reading and interpreting engineering change orders, equipment requisitions, shop orders, and work orders - Analyzing or supervising maintenance, repair, or production operations to determine methods of improvement B.

Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation.

To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess three (3) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D.

degree or equivalent doctoral degree. C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade level GS-11, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-11.

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. Major Duties:

• Provides a wide range of technical support services to customer activities concerning the on-site electrical and mechanical repair, rebuild or replacement of specialized machinery, machine tools and Industrial Plant Equipment (IPE)
• Provides technical advice and guidance to customers on such matters as IPE condition assessment, disposition, replacement, new procurement, storage or repair/rebuild/retrofit of equipment
• Serves as project coordinator/leader over task teams consisting primarily of highly skilled customer repair facility maintenance personnel
• Provides condition assessment analysis of complex metal working, metal cutting and metal forming equipment located in military services land bases, industrial activities and ships afloat for military planners in determining combat support readiness
• Gathers and prepares technical data in conjunction with field visits.
• Meets with and discusses/clarifies known maintenance needs with team members; prioritizes work schedules; provides customer in-briefs on arrival on-site and out-briefs the customer upon completion of the work.
• Prepares detailed reports for project managers concerning field service visits and findings which serve as the basis of recommendations to customers, and for ordering needed parts.