Technical Assistant

1 month ago

Rockville, Maryland, United States USAJobs Full time
Duties

The successful candidate will perform the full range of Technical Assistant duties.

Such duties include but are not limited to:
Working with agency staff to understand the current data environment and NSIR business needs to identify opportunities that can enhance and/or improve organizational effectiveness. Managing/coordinating special projects as directed by the Office-level managers or as initiated individually. Develops and implements improvements in handling technical aspects of day-to-day office operations. Provides coordination for accomplishment of special projects requiring technical coordination among various NSIR divisions, and coordination among other NRC offices, as necessary. Coordinating with the OEDO, Congressional Affairs, Public Affairs, and other offices on a significant number of high priority, complex, high visibility day-to-day activities, as well as special assignments. Preparing responses to certain categories of assigned principal correspondence, including communications with Congress, government agency heads, state and local officials, the general public, foreign officials and various industrial and other stakeholders for Office-level managers. Providing expert technical guidance and advice for Office-level management in assessing and resolving issues at NRC licensed facilities. Providing liaison with NRC regions, special committees, ad hoc groups, senior representatives of licensees, license applicants, and others, in work involved in anticipating and identifying major nuclear safety problems and issues. Serving in a technical advisory capacity to the Director/Deputy Director on matters coming to the Office-level managers for resolution.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
  • This is a Drug Testing position.
  • U.S. Citizenship Required
  • Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires

    You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

    Qualifications

    In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level, GG-14, in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

    The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

    1. Demonstrated analytical ability sufficient to plan, organize and perform a variety of program/technical and administrative management functions and activities involving competing priorities and deadlines. Ability to use or create data analysis to inform senior management decisions.

    2. Demonstrated ability to perform independent reviews and develop nuclear safety policy recommendations.

    3. Demonstrated ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner through oral, written, and using technology. Communications should be with all levels. This could include communications with colleagues, subordinates, licensee management, NRC management in Headquarters and Regions or the Commission, and with representatives of professional groups or other Federal or State agencies.

    4. Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the Agency's planning, budgeting, and performance management process. Demonstrated ability to analyze complex administrative, programmatic, policy, and strategy issues such as, budget formulation and execution, contracts and financial management, and resource utilization.

    SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as: performing independent reviews of licensee requests and/or activities where the agency had to ensure licensee review compliance with NRC regulations; significant experience leading projects and initiatives that required significant analytical ability and project management skills; significant experience communicating information and ideas to a diverse set of stakeholders via oral, visual, and written methodologies, tailoring messaging accordingly; significant experience with the NRC's Agency planning, budgeting, and performance management processes.

    A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.

    Education

    You must include an unofficial or official copy of your college and/or university transcripts with your application. Transcript must include the School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). Education must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of credibility of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. If you have multiple degrees (e.g., BS, MS, PhD) please submit transcripts for each degree. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: .

    GG-0800 (General Engineering Series):

    Basic Requirements:
  • 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
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.)
    GG-1301 (General Physical Science Series):

    Basic Requirements:

    Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

    OR

    Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

    You must meet OPM's basic education and professional knowledge requirements that apply to Federal engineering and sciences positions for the grade levels to which you are applying. This knowledge is met by having a bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant professional engineering/science discipline from a school of engineering with at least one engineering curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) (or by documenting how you meet the minimum OPM qualification standards for the 800 Occupational Series .

    Additional information

    The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD.

    In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period.

    Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable.

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