Electronics Technician

Full TimeTX-EL PASOOTC
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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineering Technician

Job Summary

This Electronics Technician is located at US Army Operational Test Command, Air & Missile Defense Test Dir (AMDTD), with duty location of Fort Bliss, TX.

This job is a civilian position and does not require military service (including commission and enlistment)


WHAT IS ATEC?


ATEC is the Army’s independent test and evaluation organization. We are a team of Civilian and Military personnel working together to provide America’s Military with the best equipment to win and return home safely. At ATEC, we have a saying: If a Soldier rides, wears, shoots, or deploys it, we test it. ATEC is at the forefront of testing and evaluating technologies of the future from autonomous aerial/ground vehicles to hypersonic weapons. Each day, top scientists and engineers test and evaluate cutting-edge equipment. Our workforce is highly technical and skilled, comprised of more than 8,500 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Engineers, scientists, technicians, researchers, and evaluators work with innovative, advanced technologies in 24 testing and research locations across the U.S. States and around the world. If you are a civilian who wants their work to make a difference, we look forward to hearing from you. For more information on ATEC, salary, benefits, etc., see:  U.S. Army Test & Evaluation Command | Jobs and Careers (yello.co)

 

PLACE OF WORK:

U.S. Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC), Fort Bliss, TX
ATEC is participating in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). Among other features, the demonstration project replaced GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. The band NH-03 is equal to the former GS-12 Step 01 through Step 10. OTC uses salary control points to allow for differentiation in the level of positions within the same broadband. Therefore, the salary for this position will be set no higher than $107,680 including locality.

 

ATEC has various incentives that may be available for highly qualified candidates, including recruitment incentives, relocation incentives, student loan repayment, and credit for leave accrual. Incentives may be authorized IAW agency policy.



 

Job Responsibilities

  • Provide consultation and direct automated data acquisition (DAQ) instrumentation support for test projects managed by personnel of the team.
  • Serve as a highly skilled electronics technician and instrumentation specialist responsible for the design, testing, evaluation, and implementation of advanced test instrumentation for the acquisition of performance data.
  • Serve as the principal point of contact for all technical and operational matters relating to automated data acquisition (DAQ) systems and general instrumentation.
  • Represent organization at conferences, meetings and symposiums at OTC Headquarters, Program Executive Offices, other government agencies, and contractor facilities.
  • Provide consultation support for test directors, test officers, and other technicians in the team in the planning, organization, coordination, resolving conflicts, and conduct of technical and operational test projects managed.
  • Conduct market research prepares detailed cost estimates, milestones, and evaluates contract performance as needed.
  • Provide Contracting Officer Representative (COR) functions.

Job Qualification

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.

  • Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
  • Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
  • Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
  • Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment
  • Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
  • Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
  • Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
  • Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
  • Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
  • Reinstatement

Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience which includes:(1) experience utilizing various transducers, signal conditioning equipment, telemetry, network monitoring, networked DAQ data acquisition (DAQ) devices, data quality control, and DAQ system software for operational support of test project; and (2) experience using Agency procedures, regulations, directives and requirements to include National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) related to cyber security and risk management framework (RMF) to support authority to operate (ATO) certification and sustainment activities for variety of instrumentation/data collection/modeling-simulation systems. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower level/grade position in the federal service (NJ-03/GS-11).

 

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

  • Communications
  • Planning and Evaluating
  • Technical Competence

 

Conditions of Employment

  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Position requires working around equipment that generate noise, vibration and heat.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance through the duration of your employment.
  • This position requires the employee to occasionally travel away from the normal duty station up to 40% of the time.
  • This position requires a pre-employment and annual physical examination.
  • This position has physical labor requirements, in performance of duties and requires continual and repetitive use of large motor skills.
  • This position requires the wear and use of prescribed personnel protective equipment.
  • Mission requirements may require incumbent to work overtime and other than normal duty hours.

Travel Requirements

Majority of Travel will be up to 20%/Some positions travel up to 40% (Dependent on Position/Location/Organization)

QUESTIONS or issues please send us a message with the vacancy announcement URL, position title, and location to:

sheila.d.miller.civ@army.mil