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Engineering Technician

U.S. Coast Guard | Charleston, SC

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Posted Date 2/20/2025
Description This vacancy is for a GS-0802-12, Engineering Technician located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, OPERATING LOCATION-SFLC LRE SYSTEMS and EQUIPMENT SEC 1-ALAMEDA CA. Duty location will be determined upon selection.

You will serve as a/an Engineering Technician and be responsible for serving as the maintenance technical lead advising, overseeing, and managing planned and emergent maintenance on the propulsion systems employed on the 418-ft Maritime Security Cutter. Assists the NSC Propulsion Systems Support Integrator regarding lifecycle logistics, and operational and performance analysis

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

  • Performing propulsion system inspections and troubleshooting.
  • Providing hands-on guidance and training for NSC crews and USCG Maintenance Augmentation Team personnel during scheduled and unscheduled maintenance actions.
  • Serving as a member of root cause failure analysis teams, investigating high value or recurring equipment failures to identify immediate, underlying, and root causes.
  • Providing maintenance recommendations based on the application of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and practices that strike the balance between reliability, availability, maintainability, and total ownership costs.
  • Generating engineering change recommendations to address the following: implement the OEM technical service bulletins; correct or update cutter/fleet configuration to lower maintenance costs and increase operational availability; and report identified obsolescence and supportability issues.
  • Developing, oversee, and validate maintenance and repair test plans.
  • Appling specialized technical knowledge of professional engineering and scientific concepts, methods, and procedures to analyze and define the requirements of multi-phase projects.

To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Specialized experience must include the following:

  • Knowledge of conducting diesel engine maintenance and repairs to include top-end and center section overhauls, component inspections, RCM tools (e.g. failure modes effects analysis, level of repair analysis, etc.)
  • Ability to use configuration changes to address lifecycle logistics, and field installation of technical service advisories.
  • Skills to direct and train diverse teams of USCG personnel ranging from junior enlisted to mid-level commissioned officers conducting NSC main diesel engine maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of contracts and preparation of statements of work for engineering and technical services.
Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Transcripts--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
Salary90,597.00 - 117,782.00 Annual
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