Electronics Technician

Air Combat Command; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Combat Command seeks technicians to assist engineers in experiments, testing, and evaluation of advanced airborne electronic systems. The role involves applying electronics theory, designing and installing measurement devices, performing calibration, and analyzing test data to improve system performance.

Primary duties include supporting complex system maintenance, troubleshooting, and data collection under evolving test conditions.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of electronics, basic electricity and physics.
• Ability to design, install, calibrate, test and maintain electronic systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance standards and procedures for equipment.
• Installation planning and directing complex system deployments.
• Fabrication: design/analyze circuits and modify designs for performance and cost objectives.
• Testing and evaluation of new or modified electronic systems; analyze data.
• Sustainment: calibrate and test equipment and archive data.
• Troubleshoot faults by interpreting diagrams, drawings, and schematics.

Skills

Electronics knowledge

Electrical theory

Testing and evaluation

Troubleshooting

Job description

The primary purpose of this position is: to perform non-professional technical work in accomplishing limited design, scientific analysis, measurement, and tests in the evaluation of airborne weapon systems and electronic, electro-mechanical, or electro-optical systems.

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Technical and Medical Support Positions.

BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT:

This series covers technical positions supervising, leading, or performing work involving applying: knowledge of the techniques and theories characteristic of electronics, such as a knowledge of basic electricity and electronic theory, algebra, and elementary physics; knowledge of electronic equipment design, development, evaluation, testing, installation, and maintenance; and knowledge of the capabilities, limitations, operations, design, characteristics, and functional use of a variety of types and models of electronic equipment and systems related to, but less than, a full professional knowledge of electronic engineering.

• Maintenance - Developing maintenance standards and procedures for use by others. Analyzing repair practices and developing procedural instructions for use by others on methods and steps to repair equipment.
• Installation - Planning and directing the installation of complex systems and associated facilities, particularly where there are site selection and construction problems, dealings with contractors and public utilities, and the possible need to modify equipment for novel site characteristics.
• Fabrication - Designing and analyzing circuits, determining design feasibility, evaluating equipment performance under varying environmental conditions, and collecting performance data. Designing or modifying designs to achieve performance and cost objectives. Evaluating the adequacy of equipment for such purposes as repair, calibration, and testing.
• Testing and Evaluation/Research and Development - Developing or evaluating new or modified electronic systems. Completing testing, evaluating data, and determining acceptability of equipment modifications, validity, test procedures and data, or legality of operation.
• Sustainment - Developing, performing, evaluating, or modifying calibration and test equipment, systems, and procedures. Reporting, analyzing, and archiving test data. Performing complex calculations and manipulations of test data to improve performance of systems, instrumentation, measurement standards, techniques, and procedures.
• Troubleshooting - Analyzing and diagnosing faults in the operational configuration of electronic systems and equipment. Interpreting circuit wiring, logic cable diagrams, drawings, specifications, and schematics of complete systems and equipment to understand the function and interconnections of the various assemblies and troubleshoot the system.

Technicians support professional engineers in performing experiments, research, and developmental activities requiring an in-depth knowledge of technical engineering methods, applications, practices, and principles to work on concepts, prototypes, and experimental projects that are without precedent and support state-of-the-art research.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-10, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes a Comprehensive, intensive, practical knowledge of, and skill in applying, technical electronic engineering principles, practices, techniques, procedures, and policies sufficient to design, fabricate, install, check, maintain, and test one-of-a-kind electronic aerospace and specialized instrumentation systems which measure and record test parameters using emerging technology and off-the-shelf materials; plan, develop, modify, troubleshoot, and maintain one-of-a-kind airborne instrumentation systems and upgrade their capabilities based on application of emerging technology; plan, design, develop, or construct electronics sensing and measurement devices and applications using newer technology found in aerospace research, development, test and evaluation; control electronic data collection systems using nonconventional modification hardware and understand their capabilities; and plan, develop, construct, and integrate new devices into the system to perform multiple tasks not previously associated with aerospace and/or other test and evaluation syst