You will serve as a ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN in the COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE (N6) of COMNAVSPECWARDEVGRU.

Duties

You will identify/solve a wide variety of complex problems with competing objectives, variables, and constraints relating to design, implementation, and maintenance of advanced telecommunications and satellite communications (SATCOM) systems. You will deliver leading edge solutions to achieve required technical performance within cost, schedule, and technology constraints. You will design approval requests for temporary modifications to solve unique technical issues with the equipment, configurations, and functionality. You will support and assist government agencies, vendor, and other mobile maintenance/tactical teams one extensive equipment modifications. You will interface with ship/maritime platform combat system design engineers, contractors, and other government activities, and foreign partner government and contractors on a recurring basis to discuss and resolve technical issues. You will interpret highly complex electronics diagrams and schematics, troubleshoot with tactical teams, vendor, or government agencies to determine malfunction/outage, and lead efforts to repair/restore system. You will provide direct customer support. You will utilize an extensive variety of Test, Measuring, and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE) to analyze, evaluate, test, calibrate, modify, diagnose, and perform corrective repair to assure equipment integrity.

Requirements

• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Top Secret/SCI security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Incumbent is subject to periodic counterintelligence (CI) scope polygraphs.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: displaying subject matter expertise to integrate technologies, techniques, and methods to protect and extend the survivability of SATCOM systems and telecommunications channels from security, intelligence, anti-jamming, and physical threats. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/electronics-technical-series-0856/ 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.

Education

Contacts

• Address COMNAVSPECWARDEVGRU 472 Polaris, Bldg 586 Virginia Beach, VA 23461 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]