Two NOAA technicians work on the Nationwide Science Basis’s (NSF) Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to function, calibrate, and preserve NOAA and associate local weather instrumentation and initiatives for a one-year interval.
Date posted
Mar. 24, 2023 4:45 pm
Utility deadline
Apr. 10, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
NOAA World Monitoring Laboratory
Location
Job description
The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) World Monitoring Laboratory (GML) is looking for two major technicians for Winter 2024 on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and one alternate technician who would deploy if major candidates can’t deploy or should depart Antarctica earlier than winter.
Two NOAA technicians work on the Nationwide Science Basis’s (NSF) Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to function, calibrate, and preserve NOAA and associate local weather instrumentation and initiatives for a one-year interval. The crew collects top quality information to watch the composition of the environment and the Earth’s vitality finances, enabling researchers to grasp how the local weather adjustments over time. In addition they function members of the station’s Emergency Response Staff and help with group duties resembling cleansing the station, station opening/closing duties, and different duties as assigned.
Two major technicians might be employed as federal staff on term-limited appointments and should initially go the necessary bodily qualification (PQ) for deployment. If a technician doesn’t meet the NSF’s rigorous PQ requirements for wintering at South Pole, the time period appointment might be ended early and employment might be terminated. Concurrent to finishing the PQ, the technicians will full coaching with NOAA and associate undertaking leads on the NOAA/GML workplace in Boulder, and just about. Coaching might embrace a journey to, and hands-on expertise on the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Utqiagvik, AK. Staff constructing and emergency response coaching is anticipated to be held within the Denver space in early October 2023.
Deployment to Antarctica for major technicians is anticipated to happen in mid-October 2024. Nevertheless, with uncertainty surrounding the 2023 season COVID-19 protocols, dates are topic to vary. There could also be a quarantine or isolation interval included on this 12 months’s deployment. After the 12 months in Antarctica concludes, technicians might take as much as 30 days of depart previous to returning to the USA.
The Alternate Technician might be employed as a federal worker on term-limited appointment and should initially go the necessary bodily qualification (PQ) for deployment. After finishing the PQ, the alternate trains alongside the first technicians in Boulder. Nevertheless, they continue to be in an “on name” standing till the South Pole Station closes for the winter. Within the occasion the first technician can’t deploy, or leaves South Pole in the course of the summer season season (November – February), the alternate would instantly deploy to take their place.
If the coaching interval is profitable and the Alternate doesn’t deploy, they are going to be given the primary proper of refusal to deploy as the first NOAA technician for the next 12 months (2025).
Primary {Qualifications}
- United States citizenship
- Meets OPM Bodily scientist schooling/expertise (https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/)
- Should have all undergraduate or graduate work accomplished by June 2023.
- Previous technical expertise, previous fieldwork/expertise strongly most popular
- Should be capable to go a rigorous bodily qualification – might require knowledge enamel removing, stress check, present COVID-19 vaccination
- Should be capable to get hold of a New Zealand visa
- Should be capable to go a federal service background test
A powerful candidate may have:
- Electronics troubleshooting expertise
- An understanding of, and expertise with, laptop community {hardware}, software program, and firewalls
- Area work expertise, ideally within the Arctic or Antarctic areas
- Soldering and/or cable making expertise
- Primary programming expertise and expertise with a number of working techniques, together with Home windows and Linux
- Teamwork expertise – massive and small groups
- Situational consciousness/emotional intelligence
- Sturdy written and verbal communication expertise
For extra particulars
https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/spo/spo_tech_job.html