Employee will serve as a Dental Laboratory Technician in support of the Homeless Veteran Dental Initiative located primarily at the Veterans Healthcare System in Bath, NY with at up to one day per week at the Canandaigua and/or Rochester campuses.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/29/2025. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education s described below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Requires one full year of specialized experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-6) in the Federal service. Qualifying experience includes: Use of dental laboratory material such as impression materials, plasters, stones, hydrocolloids, waxes, metals, acrylics, porcelain, and similar materials. Use of laboratory equipment such as hand tools, dental lathes, engines, and hand pieces, furnaces, casting machines, presses, flasks, and related equipment. Use of precision instruments such as articulators, surveyors, and microanalyzers. Construction of dental prosthetic appliances. Such assignments require a practical knowledge of oral anatomy and dentition, as well as laboratory procedures. (Resume must clearly support responses to the online questionnaire to be creditable.) OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Successful completion of one full year of Graduate education directly related to the work of this Dental Laboratory Technician position. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate education and specialized experience, as described above, are also qualifying. Only graduate education in excess of 6 months (e.g., 9 semester hours) is creditable. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical Thinking Applies Technology to Tasks Medicine and Dentistry Technical Competence Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work is sedentary but requires standing, walking, bending, lifting and carrying light dental items. 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/.
Duties: ***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 3 years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4-year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment. Duties will include, but may not be limited to the following: Fabricates and constructs complete and partial dentures. Boxes impressions and pours casts. Mounts casts on indicated articulator. Constructs customer trays, registration bases, and occlusion rims. Selects and sets up artificial teeth. Waxes, flasks, and boils out dentures. Mixes, packs acrylic, and utilizes Heat Injection techniques to fabricate dentures. Finishes and polishes dentures. Surveys master cast to implement the dentist's design for removable partial dentures. Fabricates components to include, bending and adaptation of wrought iron clasps, implements laboratory phase of altered cast technique for correcting tissue impressions. Applies knowledge of CAD/CAM techniques, and computer skills to scan, send/receive scans of models or impressions, and import scans into CAD/CAM software. Prepares and fabricates Crown and Bridge casework. Mixes, pours, and processes impressions using materials and sequence of techniques appropriate to the type of die being constructed. Designs, mills, polishes and fires prepared and scanned CAD/CAM images, includes scans to be imported to Dental Laboratory software. Fabricates and constructs special dental appliances, e.g., soft maxillary mandibular occlusal guards, fluoride carrier trays, waxes up missing teeth, constructs stents for fixed prosthetic procedure, dental implants, obstructive sleep apnea appliances, etc. Receives, interprets, and processes prescriptions. Controls shipments and request supplies timely. Maintains records and statistics, and is accountable for the security of prosthodontic teeth, gold, and other precious metals used in the laboratory. Performs care and maintenance of instruments and equipment. Adheres to infection control measures to prevent cross contamination to self or patients. Performs other duties as necessary. Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Dental Laboratory Technician/PD21H70-T