Supervisory Electronics Engineer

Full Job Description

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Observations (OBS), Radar Operating Center (ROC), Radar Engineering Branch with 1 vacancy in Norman, OK.

This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS-26-12929089-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. 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 BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified.

Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: To qualify for the 0801 series: EDUCATION: A. Degree: Engineering.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR B.

Combination of education and experience: college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.

The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.

Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.

For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.

Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

-AND- 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 GS-15 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Overseeing the planning, development, or direction of the testing, integration, or repair of electronic systems that acquire radar data; Developing plans for electrical engineering projects or evaluating electrical engineering projects to meet program requirements; and Providing technical advice or solutions to implement plans or resolve electronic engineering issues.

Major Duties:

As a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, you will perform the following duties: Serve as the supervisor for the Radar Engineering Branch, which is responsible for centralized engineering of the Nation's weather radar network, as well as Government owned WSR-88D weather radars outside the contiguous United States, and WSR-88D weather radars owned and operated by foreign governments.

Manage a team to provide planning, direction and resource allocation to support overall logistics, inspection, repair, testing, and integration of electronic systems.

Exercise supervisory authority to delegate work, develop plans, evaluate budgeting requirements, support personnel needs and address concerns.

Provide strategic planning support to senior management in supported departments and nations to assist in setting overall goals for the WSR-88D program.

Identify, plan and present alternatives to establish long-term plans. Plan, monitor and report progress on program objectives to measure, control and evaluate the execution of said plans.

Develop program out-year issue papers, presentation materials and supporting documentation in justification of program budgetary estimates and tri-agency and international cost sharing proposals (i.e.

developing and updating agreements and providing input on availability of program segment expenditures to effect timely and appropriate expenditures consistent with program plans, needs and schedules).

Provide life-cycle hardware and software engineering for systems that acquire radar data from other radars, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR).

Oversee system development and maintain WSR-88D baseline applications and support software.

Oversee all resolutions to technical anomalies and ensure all implementation of hardware, software, and system improvements are maintained to meet current and changing national and international mission requirements.