About the role
Duties
The successful selectee will perform the following duties:
- Interpret specialized handling and storage instructions for ammunition and explosives to verify safety and regulatory ordnance procedures are followed.
- Manage the proper storage and handling of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives based on the nature, characteristic, hazard and risk of ammunition and explosives to minimize the potential for causing mishaps.
- Execute test procedures to evaluate ammunition operability or performance.
- Disseminate explosive safety information (e.g., Safety Alerts, Notice of Ammunition Reclassifications, Safety of Use Memorandums, or similar information) necessary for force protection and to supplement the explosives safety training and education program.
- Repair and recondition ammunition containers and cartridge cases in accordance with oral or written instructions.
- Examine ordnance material (e.g., ammunition, explosives, chemical munitions, fuels, missiles, hazardous material, inert material) to identify potential defects.
Qualifications
In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: duties associated with ammunition loading procedures, hand load ammunition, inspection of ammunition and providing instruction and training to personnel. Develop, collect analyze, evaluate, and interpret the full range of technical ammunition data, specifications, schematics, engineering drawings, test reports, manufacturer catalogs, in order to develop technical decisions and recommendations. OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., if related.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/Standards/group-stds/gs-admin.asp.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.
To preview this questionnaire and determine if your experience matches the skills required for this position, click on the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/10011940
Education
If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume. See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
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