Electronic Engineer

What You'd Actually Do

Key Duties

• The duties described are for the full-performance level.
• At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to: Designs and supervises construction and installation of specialized electronic equipment and interfaces this customized equipment with current standardized official systems.
• Prepares or reviews feasibility studies, special reports, and investigations on problems that relate to the standardized official system’s uses, needs, and requirements.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures, training and interpretation of standards and policy as related to automated systems, weighing operation, scale installation and testing.
• Acts as liaison with private and professional engineering firms on engineering problems relating to projects being developed.
• Provides professional engineering design advice and guidance to contractor’s technical personnel.
• Represents Grain Inspection, at technical conferences as applicable.

Qualifications

• Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement, including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
• BASIC REQUIREMENT: A.
• Degree: Engineering.
• To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
• OR B.
• Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
• The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1.
• Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
• Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
• For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
• 2.
• Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional.
• registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
• 3.
• Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (i.e.
• Degree).
• 4.
• Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field (e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology) may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
• FOR THE GS-12 LEVEL: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-11 level) that may have been obtained in the private or public (local, county, state, Federal) sectors which demonstrates: Analyzing technical specifications, engineering drawings, performance standards, and system requirements to determine applicability to automated grain inspection, weighing, flow-control, or related industrial control environments.
• Providing expert technical guidance on the installation, integration, and configuration of new or modified electronic, electromechanical, or automated control systems.
• Delivering technical operational support for electronic or automated systems used in grain flow security, weighing accuracy, inspection technology, or similar regulated processes-such as calibration, verification, software/hardware adjustments, and system performance validation.
• Note: There is no education substitution for this grade level.
• TRANSCRIPTS are required if: This position requires specific coursework or a degree in a specific field to be basically qualified.
• You are qualifying for the position based on education.
• You are qualifying for this position based on a combination of experience and education.
• This education must have been successfully completed and obtained from an accredited school, college, or university 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
• You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Benefits

Standard federal benefits including FEHB, FERS pension, TSP with matching, annual and sick leave.