Supervisory Electronics Technician

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. This is a position with an initial overseas tour of 3 years with possible extensions for a total of 5 years.

Major duties

• Serves as Chief of the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) performing duties for maintaining Defense Red Switch Network nodes.
• Plans, coordinates, designs, and supervises system related relocations, upgrades, and installations. Responsible for the administration, diagnostic analysis and repair of the e Digital Small Switch (DSS-2A) and Peripheral Equipment.
• Develops long-range plans for communications links to maintain and expand, where necessary, network coverage of the users.
• Develops budget estimates and approves the allocation, distribution, and expenditure of financial resources for technical operations.
• Evaluates and verifies the technical quality of signals sent via satellite and directly monitors quality at receiver locations to ensure satisfactory system operations.
• Provides detailed technical analysis and evaluation of equipment problems.
• Provides advice and assistance to senior level officials.
• Establishes network operating standards for equipment and systems on the Command and Control Switching systems.
• Supervises a staff of military and civilian personnel. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets priorities, prepares schedules for completion of work and assigns work based on priorities.
• Evaluates performance of subordinates, provides advice, counsels and/or instructs employees on both work and administrative matters.

Qualifications

CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS 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 Civilian Employees of the Organization Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions Organization is defined as current, permanent ARCYBER/NETCOM employees only. This position is in the Supervisor/Management Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure. 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. Basic Requirement for Supervisory Electronics Technician: Specialized and Other Experience: Applicant must have one year of directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Qualifying experience would be demonstrated by providing technical expertise to support development, operation, and maintenance of complex telecommunications and electronics equipment ; aligning and testing of complex telecommunications and electronics equipment; developing long-range plans for communications links to maintain and expand network coverage of the users; assisting with development of budget estimates and approves the allocation, distribution, and expenditure of financial resources for technical operations; evaluating and verifying the technical quality of signals sent via satellite and directly monitors.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone-no substitution of education for experience is permitted.