Description:
This employee supports the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI.Serves as the professional electronics engineer in support of research, design, development, testing, evaluation and maintenance for data acquisition systems, instrumentation, and scientific research equipment. Serves as the senior electronics engineer for a work group conducting materials testing.
For more information about this position, please contact Dwight McDonald Dwight.e.mcdonald@usda.gov
Requirements:
To qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.
Basic Requirement for All Engineering positions: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
For detail, please see Education section below.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below.
Minimum Qualifications Requirements:
For the GS-11 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level. Examples of qualifying experience include:
-- operation, calibration, maintenance and repair of data acquisition systems, control systems, and electronic instrumentation for collecting scientific research data
-- researching and implementing conventional approaches to physical engineering data collection including digital image correlation, video extensometry, machine learning, analysis/management/manipulation of large data sets
-- implementing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, debugging, and modifying computer software, applications, and hardware/software interfaces
-- using state-of-the-art computer hardware/software/applications/operating systems, programmable electronics, mini-computers, research instrumentation, data acquisition systems, image acquisition and processing, databases, and programming languages/environments
OR 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education related to the work of the position and leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
OR A combination of specialized experience described above and related graduate level education that is beyond the second year of progressive graduate study.
For the GS-12 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level. Examples of qualifying experience include:
-- independent development, operation, calibration, maintenance, and repair of data acquisition systems, control systems, and electronic instrumentation for collecting scientific research data
-- researching and implementing contemporary and unconventional approaches to physical engineering data collection such as digital image correlation, video extensometry, machine learning, analysis/management/manipulation of large data sets
-- designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, debugging, and modifying computer software, applications, and hardware/software interfaces
-- investigating methods to interface with and use field and laboratory instrumentation with real time application networks, high performance computers, and independent data acquisition systems.
There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level
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.
May 17, 2023;
from:
usajobs.gov