ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the DE-04 level in the Federal Service which includes: (1) Serves as aircraft mechanic on rotary wing and/or fixed wing aircraft, providing for the initial installation and modification of non-standard aircraft components, systems, and assemblies on experimental, test or pre-production aircraft serving as testbeds; (2) Skills to coordinate with Information Systems providers, such as Aircraft Classification Number (ACN), Aviation Ground Support Equipment, Aircraft Survivability Equipment, Automated Weight and Balance System; (3) Maintain, disassemble, repair, and reassemble test, pre-production, modified and standard support rotary and fixed wing airframes, systems, assemblies and equipment as project workload dictates; (4) Inspects and identifies discrepancies and performs necessary correction by troubleshooting the source of malfunction and making necessary adjustments, repairs or replacement of defective components or parts; (5) Provides aviation maintenance expertise to the organization and to test teams with review of prototype / test article technical data packages. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Aircraft Maintenance Flight Systems Leadership Teaching Others Technical Problem Solving
About the Position: This position is located at Fort Eustis, VA. This is a STRL Demonstration Project Position. This position is located at the Aviation & Missile Center, Technology Development Directorate, Flight Test Division. Renewable Terms are eligible to apply for this position in accordance with P.L. 115-232, Section 1112. Please make sure your supporting SF-50 reflects this remark.