Staff Technician
Space Science and Engineering Division

GS-35F-0533L

QUALIFICATIONS:  A Staff Technician must have a minimum of ten years experience in a technical support position, and a high school or equivalent education. An Associate's degree is highly desired. This individual must possess in-depth skills and expertise in a specialty field and the ability to provide key support to scientific and engineering and project personnel.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  The Senior Technician possesses in-depth skills and expertise in a specialty field and provides key support to scientific and engineering and other project personnel. This individual may have direct administrative or project development responsibilities, and will exercise considerable latitude in carrying out technical instructions in selecting, adapting, and modifying standard procedures. Work requires a minimum of supervision, and incumbents may perform independent tasks or projects.
In the Space Science and Engineering Division, an individual at this level performs the following functions:

  • Takes a leading role in data acquisition, test set up, design of special test apparatus and other aspects of laboratory efforts on a project.
  • Installs hardware for development and test environments on large software projects.
  • Installs necessary software on development and test hardware.
  • Works network, firewall and security issues for joint development projects.
  • Performs Project backups for the development and test environments.
  • Reviews data for accuracy and relevance.
  • Designs and builds special test fixtures.
  • Works independently to obtain data or construct special test apparatus based on instructions from engineering staff.
  • May write standard test reports or input sections to larger reports.

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