Equipment Specialist (Marine)

Full Job Description

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), NOAA Dive Center with one vacancy in Seattle, WA.

This position is also announced under vacancy number OMAO-26-12872600-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards.

This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

To qualify at the ZA-2 or GS-07 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-1 or GS-05 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Performing maintenance or repairs to SCUBA equipment; and Participating in testing, evaluating, or troubleshooting SCUBA equipment.

OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: One full year of graduate level education in a field related to the position to be filled.

OR SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: As demonstrated by a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with one of the following.

NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your application clearly states how you meet the provision below: A grade point average (GPA) of 2.9 or higher based on a 4.0 scale for all completed undergraduate courses, or those completed in the last 2 full years of undergraduate study; A GPA of 3.5 or higher based on a 4.0 scale for required courses completed in a major field of study, or those courses completed in a major field of study during the last two years of undergraduate study; Class standing of upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision of the college; Membership in a national Scholastic Honor Society certified by the Association of College honor Societies, excluding freshman honor societies.

OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of graduate level education and specialized experience. Major Duties:

As an Equipment Specialist (Marine), you will perform the following duties: Provide maintenance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Diving Center (NDC) SCUBA equipment such as repairing, overhauling, maintaining, and inspecting equipment.

Process shipments of diving regulators and SCUBA gear to and from divers in the field.

Analyze equipment performance or maintenance problems and provide advice/recommendations when equipment is at end-of-life.

Apply the full range of equipment standards, policies, regulations, and methods to ensure safety and compliance.

Perform routine and on-demand service, inspection, and maintenance of SCUBA in support of the Standardized Equipment Program (SEP) for NDC.

Service of SCUBA equipment includes disassembly, inspection, cleaning and re-assembly, and testing.

SEP equipment includes first and second stage regulators, pressure gauges, alternate air sources, buoyancy compensators, and underwater instrumentation.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: The employee works in both clean and dirty shop/warehouse areas that may be noisy and cold or in an office/storage room setting.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: This position requires the ability to move moderate to heavy diving equipment and air tanks weighing up to 50 lbs.

This position requires the ability to stand for extended periods in the routine performance of duties.

This position requires excellent manual dexterity and fine motor skills to work with small parts and components and effectively use hand tools like wrenches and screwdrivers