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Technical Assistant
Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Posted 77 days ago
About the Role
This vacancy announcement will be used to fill multiple Technical Assistant vacancies in multiple offices at the NRC. This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements and security ownership restriction reporting requirements. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
What You'll Do
- →The successful candidate will perform the full range of Technical Assistant duties.
- →Such duties include but are not limited to not limited to: Serving as a highly qualified technical specialist assisting the Division management.
- →Provides leadership and support at the Division level for a broad variety of program management, resource assessment, scheduling, program evaluation, policy development, and other technical review activities related to division workload responsibilities.
- →Providing expert technical guidance and advice for the Division management in assessing and resolving issues within the division.
- →Provides overall technical coordination within the Division, with the other divisions in the office, and with business line partners as needed.
- →Accomplishes special projects requiring technical coordination among various branches within the division.
- →Provides technical and administrative coordination among other divisions in the office, business line partners, and other offices.
- →Coordinating resolution of policy and programmatic issues that affect the division and provides policy advice and assistance to the Division management and to other members of the division.
- →Develops and provides oversight of division activities and documents for human resources management, budget formulation and execution, contracts, program planning and monitoring, and information technology to ensure consistent implementation of policies.
- →Assisting Division management in the preparation of technical presentations, reports, and special studies, involving technical issues or work activities that have a significant impact on budgeted technical staff resources.
- →Gathers data from a wide variety of sources and subjects this data to analysis in order to produce the essential information in a cogent, interesting, and convincing fashion.
- →Preparing responses to certain categories of assigned principal correspondence for the Division management, including communications from Members of Congress, state and local officials, foreign officials, Tribal leadership, non-governmental organizations, and others.
- →Performing special projects as assigned by the Division management or as initiated individually.
- →Develops and implements improvements in handling technical aspects of day-to-day operations.
Requirements
- ✓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.
- ✓All information in your resume must be true and accurate.
- ✓Conditions of Employment: This is a Drug Testing position Must be able to meet and maintain security & suitability requirements.
- ✓Qualification for 0801 series: Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.) More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801.
Benefits
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Personality Fit
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