Operations Specialist

** Operations Specialist (Transportation Operations Center)**

**Department of Transportation**

**Location**

1 vacancy in the following location:

+ **Duties**

**The Operations Specialist (Transportation Operations Center)**

* Serves as a watch officer in the Department of Transportations Operations Center (TOC).

* Participates in developing and supporting partnerships with communities of interest including the intelligence and law enforcement communities and other critical Federal, State, and Local, and private organizations for outreach and awareness, information sharing, and protective action measures.

* Monitors and analyzes the status of the National Transportation System, reporting incidents, accidents or threats to the systems integrity and evaluates the potential impacts these events may have on the transportation infrastructure that could lead to critical events and crisis/emergency situations.

* Coordinates events and emergency situations with Departments and Agencies of Federal, State, and Local government; assuring exchange is consistently and continuously executed to share information and operational awareness.

* Exercises responsibility for obtaining information from a wide variety of communications equipment including e-mail, telephone, fax, secure fax, high frequency radio, and satellite phone.

**Requirements**

** Conditions of Employment**

* Must meet specialized experience stated in Qualifications section

* Submit application and resume online by 11:59 PM EST on the closing date

* Required documents must be submitted by the closing date.

**CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:**

* **SELECTIVE SERVICE:** Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.

* **PCS/RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT:** Permanent Change of Station (PCS), Relocation, and Recruitment Incentive authorization varies by position/selection.

* **PROBATIONARY PERIOD:** You must complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).

* **TIME-IN-GRADE:** Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade in the competitive or excepted service in the executive branch to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.

** Qualifications**

**Additional information**

**PLEASE NOTE:**

* This is not a Bargaining unit position.

**COVID VACCINATION:** If selected, you will be required to provide information regarding your COVID-19 vaccination status for the purposes of implementing workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.

**This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if similar vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.**

* A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

**DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.** If your resume/ application does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make a qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

If you meet the qualification requirements, your application will be scored based upon your responses to the vacancy questions. The top rated applications will be reviewed for the quality of your experience, education and training relevant to the position.

Eligible Federal employees also seeking consideration for noncompetitive reassignment for this position, must indicate interest in the assessment. In eligibility question 14: select Yes/Other/Former Incumbency of a Position brought into the Competitive Service. Noncompetitive federal candidates must have competitive status on a SF-50, meet minimum qualifications, have served at the same grade or higher, and held or exceeded the promotion potential of this position.

Your application will be rated on the extent and quality of your experience, education and training relevant to the position. The answers you select in the on-line process must be substantiated in your application package. If upon review, it is determined that your described work history, competencies, and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, your application may be updated on your behalf or you may not be referred to the selecting official. Please ensure that your work history provides enough details to support your answers. If referred, all relevant documents including performance appraisals and awards submitted with your application package will be forwarded to the hiring official for review. The Automated Staffing Office is ultimately responsible for determining your final rating.

**To preview questions please .** A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.

**ALL Applicants must provide a resume that fully supports the required specialized experience and was created within USA Jobs Resume Builder and respond to the vacancy questions by the closing date of the vacancy. Formatted resumes can be uploaded when you arrive at the DOT application system.** For assistance with the resume builder, please visit**:**

**The following is a list of documents that are only required based on the type of position and consideration for which you are applying.**

**Required for ALL Applicants**

+ **RESUME - Must include resume created within USA Jobs Resume Builder.** Resume must show relevant experience, education and fully support the required specialized experience. May also upload resume, if desired, but application must include USAJobs BUILT resume.

+ **COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRE -** answered online as part of application process **TRANSCRIPTS:** **Transcripts are REQUIRED** **if there is a stated education requirement for the series OR if you are substituting education for experience. The transcripts need not be official,** but must show that you meet the stated education requirements, including specific major or class requirements.

**FEDERAL APPLICANTS:** You must submit SF-50(s) that verify your highest competitive grade, full performance level, and eligibility as a federal applicant. **DO NOT submit an award SF-50 as these often do not verify grade or eligibility. For consideration for a promotion, Box 4 of the SF-50 must show a date that is at least 52 weeks prior to the job announcement closing. We recommend submitting your last promotion SF-50, current SF-50