Electronics Engineer, GS-0855-12

Duties

The selectee serves as a system engineer in the broad area of electrical, electronics, and software engineering related to the requirements identification, design, development, evaluation, and implementation of navigational aid and communications systems for new and existing assets; as Project Officer the selectee collaborates with managers, other engineers, and/or contractor personnel as well as provides advice and insight on the resolution of unique and/or complex engineering problems, where innovative adaptations or development of new features is required.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Overseeing the System Engineering Lifecycle for DGPS identifying new and emerging needs; analyzing and selecting a solution; designing, testing, and obtaining the resources necessary to implement, support, and sustain the final solution.
• Determining specifications practicability for complex or costly projects, prepares statements of work or other binding specification or acquisition performance standards.
• Coordinating and leading in the resolution of technical problems and controversies in performing contractor/agency technical work interfaces, recommends tests and/or initiates investigations when performance does not meet required specifications.
• Planning, coordinating, monitoring, assessing, or independently performing testing and evaluation duties for unusual and highly complex projects, including test and evaluation of electronic equipment and systems of significant scope and difficulty.
• Planning and executing large and/or complex designs on various unique, advanced electronics projects, serves as an electronics engineering design consultant to project managers, engineers, and technicians.
• Serving as a key budget planning participant critical for identifying emerging and recurring funding requirements based on system engineering lifecycle milestones and fielded system parameters.
• Working closely with Contracting Officers(CO), Contracting Specialist (CS), contracted service and supply providers, and other government personnel to provide technical evaluations, oversight, and advice for every phase of contract preparation and execution.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:
Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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
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 professional 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 -- Current registration as a professional engineer 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 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
  Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.
  Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.
• Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A.
• Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

In addition to basic requirement above: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and ability to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line work. Examples specialized experience includes: manage issues and system technical problems in areas such as Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS), oversee the system engineering lifecycle for DGPS, determine specification practicability for complex or costly projects, prepare statements of work, recommend tests and/or initiate investigations, prepare correspondence, technical reports, estimates, fact sheets, status reports, and schedules, prepare project plans, monitor and review contractor's work.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.

Education

This position does have a positive education requirement.

If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here