Summary
This position is in the Deployment Branch (T/EB/D) of the Broadcast Technologies Division (T/EB) of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Office of Technology, Services and Innovation (TSI), Engineering and Transmission Directorate (T/E). The Directorate is charged with providing worldwide engineering support for the establishment, maintenance and repair of USAGM transmission systems.
Position is Local Remote Work Eligible. Please see Additional Information for more details.
Clarification from the agency
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), the public, Veterans; All U.S. Citizens.
Duties
As an Electronics Engineer, you will be responsible for duties that may include some of the following depending on your skillset, but not limited to the following. Training will be provided as needed.
- Responsible for the design and development of programs in his/her specialty area ; major work activities involve planning, designing and implementing remote control and monitoring hardware and software systems.
- Serves as a technical source within the division in the application of engineering theories and concepts to the design and development of FM broadcasting systems and subsystems to meet USAGM's requirements.
- Serves as an FM operations and maintenance engineer and provides oversight or troubleshooting work in handling broadcast outages, incidents, and other operations issues.
- Conducts diagnostic work of remote USAGM broadcast sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel.
- Develops and maintains remote monitoring and control systems for broadcast equipment using Microsoft NET Core and Azure cloud services and IoT gateways over low bandwidth connections
- Participate in customization and interfacing enterprise software such as Microsoft Dynamics customer and field service and Azure IoT Central in the USAGM TSI Broadcast Technologies FM Operations area. Will produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards related to the USAGM international broadcasting operations.
- Designs, recommends, or performs appropriate action for new FM facilities or modifications to existing facilities to include transmitter installation, satellite receiving systems; inter-site communication links; monitoring system, subsystem and system compatibility analyses and worldwide telecommunications systems to interconnect all USAGM facilities.
- Performs extensive analysis of engineering objectives to determine projects scope, design criteria, special requirements and constraints.
- Reviews, evaluates and analyzes proposals.
- Develops data regarding technical requirements and ensures appropriate integration during the advanced engineering and technical development phases.
- Maintains comprehensive knowledge of advances in the state-of-the-art technology areas related to the USAGM engineering program and recommends those having potential for inclusion into the program.
- Participates in the development and design of broadcasting systems, subsystems and technical facilities world-wide to meet USAGM global objectives.
- Recommends modifications, applications and advances which will enhance the reliability and maintainability of USAGM's global broadcasting network.
- Serves as a project manager for the construction and implementation of new FM broadcast transmission facilities and for other projects as necessary.
- Reviews and analyzes deficiencies and problem areas and assists in the timely resolution and validation of their solutions.
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S Citizen or U.S. National.
- This is a national security position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86.
- Suitability Determination: If selected, you will be subject to a background investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation may include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
- This position is covered by a Union Agreement; AFGE Local 1812, 330 Independence Avenue S.W., Room 1169, Washington, D.C. 20237, afgelocal1812@gmail.com, (202)920-4884.
- The full performance grade level for this position is GS-14.
- If you are a male applicant who is born after 12/31/59, you are required to be registered for the Selective Service.
Qualifications
To qualify for the GS-13: In addition to meeting the basic requirement (positive education/experience) outlined above, you must have at least one year of specialized or equivalent experience to the GS-12 level that demonstrated the following. Examples of experience meeting this requirement include positions with most of the following elements:
- Experience working with Microsoft development platforms, and cloud services. Produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards.
- Experience reviewing and analyzing deficiencies and problem areas and assisting in the timely resolution and validation of solutions.
- Experience with operations and maintenance engineering, providing oversight or troubleshooting work in handling outages, incidents, and other operations issues. Conduct diagnostic work of remote sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel.
- Professional aptitude and interest in design and implementation of communications/broadcasting and support systems.
- Experience performing analyses of engineering objectives to determine project scope, design criteria, special requirements and constraints. Experience reviewing, evaluating, and analyzing proposals.
To qualify for the GS-14: In addition to meeting the basic requirement (positive education/experience) outlined above, you must have at least one year of specialized or equivalent experience to the GS-13 level that demonstrated the following:
- Expertise working with Microsoft development platforms and cloud services. Produce infographic reports, presentations, and interactive dashboards.
- Comprehensive experience reviewing and analyzing deficiencies and problem areas and assisting in the timely resolution and validation of solutions.
- Comprehensive experience with operations and maintenance engineering, providing oversight or troubleshooting work in handling outages, incidents, and other operations issues. Conduct diagnostic work of remote sites through remote monitoring, communications with host engineers on site, and vendor technical support personnel.
- Experience designing and implementing communications/broadcasting and support systems.
- Expert experience performing analyses of engineering objectives to determine project scope, design criteria, special requirements and constraints. Expert experience reviewing, evaluating, and analyzing proposals.
Education
Basic Requirement for Electronics Engineers:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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.
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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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
- 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 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.
Transcripts are required at the time of application.
Benefits
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You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once your application package has been received, a review of your qualifications will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements and competencies required for this position.
Competencies:
- Broadcast Technology
- Electronic Engineering
- Information Technology/Computer Technology
Possession of competencies must be addressed in a resume and/or cover letter. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your qualifications. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. You will be placed in one of three rating categories:
- Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating below 79.
- Well Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating of 80-89.
- Best Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating of 90 and above.
Application of Veterans' Preference: Category Rating does not add veterans' preference points, but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category. Preference eligibles will be assigned to the appropriate quality category based upon the job-related assessment and will be listed ahead of non-preference eligibles within the appropriate quality category.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s), which may not be required for all applicants:
- Cover Letter
- DD-214/ Statement of Service
- Disability Letter (VA)
- RIF Letter, Separation SF-50, or other document supporting ICTAP/CTAP eligibility.
- Professional Certification
- Resume
- SF-15
- SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
- Transcript
Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicates that resume and transcripts are required, other documents may be required in specific circumstances.
ICTAP: If you are an eligible Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant, you may apply for special selection over other candidates for this position. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 80 or above on the rating criteria for this position. ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a "Notice of Personnel Action" (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.
Veteran's Preference: If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-point veterans' preference, you must attach the member copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility stating discharge type. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must submit a VA letter and an Application of 10-Point Veterans' Preference (SF-15). Applicants seeking widow or other special veterans preference must submit a SF-15 form and all documents indicated for their specific form of preference. If you are still on active duty, you may submit a statement of service from your Personnel Command which states the date you entered active duty, the date you are separating, and the campaign medals you have received.
Education: You must submit your unofficial transcripts with your application package at the time of applying or before the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If selected for the position, you will be required to submit official transcripts before your Enter on Duty date.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you cannot complete the Application Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement.
- To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents and any appropriate Accepted Documents.
- To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to create a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account.
- Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package.
- You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
- Click the following link to pre-view and print the occupational questionnaire https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12375243.
- After completing the questionnaire and uploading appropriate documents, click the Submit Application to submit your application package.
- It is applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered in the profile is accurate and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 05/08/2024 of the announcement to receive consideration.
- Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your application. If a document is not in legible format, applicant will not be able to view it in Application Manager which means applicant must again upload the documentation to the system by the closing date of this announcement.
- To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the status of each application.
- To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand information about the job. Next click on Update Application to complete the application process.
- Note: Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete application. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental materials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Information, and How to Apply sections of the announcement.
- Application packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
- This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact HROperations@usagm.gov or 202-920-2400 to request this.
Next steps
Once the online questionnaire and application package is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your rating and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required, you will be contacted.
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