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Summary 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 Responsibilities Development, operation, calibration, maintenance, and repair of data acquisition systems, control systems, and electronic instrumentation for collecting scientific research data. Subject matter expert for programmable electronics, data acquisition, measurement and remote sensing instrumentation, electronic control systems, and other established and custom-built electronics. Advises and assists others in the installation, operation, and field maintenance of electronic equipment involved in test operations and in test methodology. Researches and implements contemporary and unconventional approaches to physical engineering data collection. Applies a broad knowledge of professional electronics and computational systems principles, methods, theories, techniques, and processes to independently execute a variety of highly difficult engineering studies, analyses, and assignments Investigates methods to interface with and use field and laboratory instrumentation with real time application networks, high performance computers, and independent data acquisition systems. Responsible for planning, developing, and implementing system hardware upgrades and reconfigurations to accommodate new system components and advanced computer technology. Develops and writes procedures for installation, operation, care, and maintenance of equipment utilized, and insures proper instruction of operating personnel in such procedures. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications 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. Education Basic Requirements: 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)1 , 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)2 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 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. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Additional Information The USDA Forest Service has legislative authority to recruit and fill Permanent (Career/Career-Conditional), Temporary, and Term Appointments under the USDA Demonstration Project. Under this authority, any U.S. citizen may apply. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP eligibles must meet the agency's definition for a quality candidate as provided in the How You Will Be Evaluated section of this announcement to be considered. If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is not guaranteed. This position may be eligible to telework up to four days per week, based upon the duties of the position. This position may also be eligible for flexible work arrangements as determined by agency policy and any applicable collective bargaining agreements. This position is not eligible for telework. The Forest Service may use certain incentives and hiring flexibilities, currently offered by the Federal government, to attract highly qualified candidates. Additional information is available at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-and-leave-flexibilities-for-recruitment-and-retention/ This is a bargaining unit position and is represented by either NFFE, AFGE, or NAGE. THIS IS AN OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until the close date or until the position is filled whichever comes first.