Electronics Technician

Electronics Technician

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Aurora, Colorado

Salary Range: $75035 - $107167 Per Year

Job Summary: The primary purpose of the position is to assume responsibility for electronic systems and devices assigned to Biomedical Section, Facilities Management Service that critically impact patient, staff, and visitor safety, and are highly visible items to medical center staff and patients, and crucial to medical center goals. This position is located at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System Center in Aurora, CO.

Major Duties:

• Major duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Equipment Maintenance: The incumbent maintains a variety of computerized and networked equipment and software, which is vital to the medical center's ability to provide quality health care. The incumbent is capable of planning and performing scheduled and unscheduled (emergency) maintenance on equipment to ensure compliance with all applicable codes and standards. The incumbent must seek ways to reduce breakdowns, eliminate safety hazards, or enhance accuracy and reliability. The incumbent assists other Electronics Technicians and clinical engineering personnel with maintenance of complex equipment and systems as necessary or assigned, especially in the area of nurse call, overhead paging, sound masking and other key medical systems. Test Methods and Techniques: The incumbent shall determine if equipment is performing satisfactorily. To make this determination, he/she must selector design test setups and employ them to evaluate equipment performance to ensure the validity and efficiency of operation. The incumbent shall utilize modem computer technology as well as conventional and Specialized Test Equipment (STE) to accomplish his/her assignments. The incumbent is independently required to draw on his/her resourcefulness, or exercise some versatility in situations, which may require unconventional applications of computer technology, Specialized Test Equipment and techniques without explicit instructions. This applies not only for maintenance but also for incoming inspections and evaluations of new equipment. The incumbents work will have a major impact on warranty disputes, safety determinations, diagnostic or therapeutic success or failure, and expenditures of funds to replace or acquire equipment. Purchasing Recommendations: The incumbent is recognized as being an Electronics Technician (Clinical Engineering). He/she serves as a technical advisor to their supervisor, other clinical engineering management, Physicians, Clinical Associates, as well as other Engineering personnel on the principles and practices that relate to the nurse call system, hospital beds, overhead paging, sound masking, and other critical hospital wide systems when evaluating equipment to meet current and projected medical center needs. Additionally, the incumbent will be a government purchase card holder to assist with service and parts ordering when necessary . The incumbent is also responsible for coordinating and working with vendors when they are onsite for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. Design: The incumbent may participate in design and development projects of extreme difficult. In such work the incumbent may be given a small assignment. He she will be given an explanation of proposed function. However the incumbent will work independent of supervision regarding the design method or technique, unless guidance is necessary to integrate the design into a larger assembly or system, little supervision will be given during design assignments; however resulting designs will be carefully examined to ensure that it meets previously established design parameters. Written Assignments: The incumbent will use advanced writing skills to clearly and accurately communicate matters of importance. He/she will relate results of testing or procedural monitoring and will recommend courses of action to be followed that will enhance the mission of the medical center as a result of such testing or monitoring. He /she will participate in planning and investigations as necessary. He/she may recommend., draft, and develop procedural changes to obtain desired results. Teaching Assignments: The incumbent will be called upon to teach operation, maintenance, and procedural protocols of nurse call system, hospital beds, ceiling lifts, and other system wide hospital systems to other personnel. Incumbent will instruct equipment operators in correct equipment usage and operator level preventative maintenance. The incumbent will participate in operation and maintenance education at both formal and informal levels. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 07:30AM-04:00PM Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Electronics Technician/PD13158A and PD07090-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/21/2025. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-10 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-10. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. There is an Individual Occupational Requirement for the GS-0856 series: Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 or equivalent and above): Work as a technician, instructor, inspector, or mechanic (civilian or military) that showed progression in theoretical and practical knowledge of electronic theory, and of the characteristics, function, operation, and capabilities of a variety of types of electronic equipment. This experience must have included the use of schematic diagrams, a variety of test equipment, and the application of appropriate electronic formulas involved in such duties as testing, troubleshooting, modifying, designing, calibrating, installing, maintaining, repairing, constructing, developing, and instructing on electronic equipment, or similar functions. Experience in developing policies, standards, and procedures for maintenance, installation, or similar functions, provided the work clearly shows that the applicant applied a specialized knowledge of the theories and principles of a variety of electronic systems or equipment. OR Education: For GS-5 or equivalent: Successful completion of (a) all the requirements for a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or electronics technology, or (b) 3 years of study in an accredited (by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) curriculum in electronics, or (c) a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree that included major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as those shown above for GS-4 or equivalent. At least 12 of the 24 semester hours must have been in electronics courses. Alternate Standard: The Examining Guide for Electronics Mechanic (2604) should be used as the qualification standard for qualifying applicants for either competitive or noncompetitive actions when the position's primary duty or responsibility, its primary purpose or reason for existence, relationship to other positions, the mission and responsibility of the organization in which it is located, and the essential, requisite qualifications required to do the work meet the definition of Trade, Craft, or Labor Work (see Technical Work in the Engineering and Architecture Group 0800). Addition to Individual Occupational Requirement, You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience GS-10: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, GS-09, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Provide comprehensive technical support of Electronic Equipment (EE) and Complex Electronic Instrumentation Systems (CEIS). Ability to communicate and interact with campus leaders on a daily basis. Ensure that all work is functionally correct and in compliance with applicable standards and technical practice. Skills of soldering, wiring and/or installation of cabling for the networking of complex microcomputer and computer-based equipment are needed. Recommend, develop, and implement, reconfigure or modify operation procedures to reduce breakdowns and to eliminate hazards, or enhance accuracy and reliability. Plan and perform scheduled and unscheduled emergency maintenance on equipment to ensure that they are operating properly, calibrated properly, and in compliance with all applicable codes and standards. Discuss maintenance problems with other technicians or at manufacturer's facilities. Specialized Experience GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, GS-10, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Provide comprehensive technical support of Electronic Equipment (EE) and Complex Electronic Instrumentation Systems (CEIS). Ability to communicate and interact with campus leaders on a daily basis. Ensure that all work is functionally correct and in compliance with applicable standards and technical practice. Skills of soldering, wiring and/or installation of cabling for the networking of complex microcomputer and computer-based equipment are needed. Recommend, develop, and implement, reconfigure or modify operation procedures to reduce breakdowns and to eliminate hazards, or enhance accuracy and reliability. Plan and perform scheduled and unscheduled emergency maintenance on equipment to ensure that they are operating properly, calibrated properly, and in compliance with all applicable codes and standards. Discuss maintenance problems with other technicians or at manufacturer's facilities. Plan and perform design, development or modification projects on equipment to perform new or different functions to meet staff needs. Design test setups and employ them to evaluate equipment performance to ensure validity and efficiency of operation. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12833336. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 11/21/2025. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.

Application Deadline: 2025-11-21