What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supervisory Physical Science Technician position at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?
This position is also announced under vacancy number NESDIS OSPO-24-12516013-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.
Qualifications:
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.EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.
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 ZT-5 (GS-13) grade level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZT-4 (GS-12) in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:
- Providing feedback on work assignments for new staff members;
- Monitoring satellite operations, and satellite and ground asset schedules; and
- Ensuring ground command system network assets are available, functioning, and configured.
- Obtain/maintain security clearance; must be able to work.
- Rotating 12 hour shifts on day and night shifts, seven days per week including weekends and holidays.
- 24/7/365 rotating crew shift.
- Individual fills a Mission Essential Position and designated an Emergency and COOP employee.
Responsibilities:
This is an open continuous announcement. The open period is 12 months. Applications will be reviewed on the established cut-off dates: 09/16/2024, 10/15/2024, 11/15/2024, 12/16/2024, 01/15/2025, 02/17/2025, 03/17/2025, 04/16/2025, 05/15/2025, 06/16/2025, 07/15/2025, 08/15/2025, 09/02/2025.
NOTE: The period of eligibility for applications is through each cut-off date. The agency will issue a list of eligible applicants at each cut-off date to hiring officials within the period of eligibility. Applicants will not need to reapply to be considered.
If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses you provided in your online questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation before the vacancy closes, you may be rated 'ineligible', or 'not qualified'. If this occurs, you are eligible to reapply to a future cut-off date.
As a Supervisory Physical Science Technician, you will perform the following duties:
- Provide technical oversight, guidance and expertise of Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) being the point of contact lead for satellite controllers, aerospace technicians and product operators as well as contract staff who provide monitoring of full production/distribution of time critical satellite data.
- Review and revise technical standard, routine and contingency operational procedures (SOPs, ROPs, and COPS) as provided by engineering to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Supervise satellite operations crew; comprised of approximately 15 environmental satellite and product operators, and provide on-going feedback on crew performance to the Operations Branch Chief, including providing performance feedback to employees.
- Serve as the technical point of contact between satellite crews and external stakeholders such as other government agencies, international partners and private sector that utilize NOAA data or ground assets for completing mission objectives.
Salary : $117,962
