Electronics Technician

The Electronics Technician (Radio) positions are located in Yellowstone National Park, in the Technology Services Radio Shop within the Administrative Division.

Open to the first 150 applicants or until 01/23/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Government housing may be available.

Special Working Conditions or Other Specifications: Environmental hazard pay for mountaintop repeater flights and tower climbing.

Qualifications:

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/23/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.

Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.

For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess at least one year of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:

EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-10 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Analyzing a variety of unusual telecommunications Radio Frequency (RF) conditions, problems, questions, or conditions associated with formulating projects or studies to substantially alter major telecommunications systems (e.g., systems compatibility, RoIP circuits, switches, distribution, microwave RF links, RF interference, and networking including VLAN). You must include hours per week worked.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of radio technicians to install, troubleshoot, maintain, and modify a large inventory of complex telecommunications systems and electronics equipment including digital/analog land mobile radio systems with VHF and UHF frequency modulated mountain-top repeaters (8), remote and local controlled base stations (20 ), mobile (500) and portable (1,000) radios; amplitude modulated transmitters and receivers. Each of the four systems have backup systems to allow for constant uptime while servicing the primary systems.
• Work closely with Yellowstone and Regional local and wide area network managers to build, troubleshoot, maintain, and modify radio over IP (RolP) networks, encrypted and unencrypted microwave radio networks. Work with the radio shop to specify, install and maintain digital and analog voice recorders, multiplexed tone telemetry systems, RF modulators, instrumentation interfaces, analog digital converters, solar powered DC power systems, microprocessor controls, and antenna and antenna combiner systems.
• Make frequent technology hardware, and configuration modifications and factory updates to specialized electronic equipment. You will adapt existing systems and technologies to evolving IP based platforms as integration of systems requires, supporting the ongoing convergence of radio, Ethernet, and geospatial IT based systems.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and modify a modular, server-based console dispatch system and peripheral equipment with central processing package and multiple networked workstations, integrated with voice and data recording systems in Yellowstone's 24/7 /365 PSAP and Wildland Fire Dispatch Center as well as resource monitoring offices.