The Electronics Technician (ET) is assigned to the Biomedical Section within Facilities Management Service at Eastern Colorado Health Care System. This position is located at PFC James Dunn VA Clinic in Pueblo, Colorado and critically impacts patient, staff, and visitor safety with highly visible items to medical center staff and patients and crucial to medical center goals.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/12/2025. 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-9. 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. You must meet the IOR requirement and grade requirement below to qualify for the position. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) for the GS-0856 series: Education: 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. In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement, you must also meet the specialized experience/education for the grade of this position. 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 1 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/.
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: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm; Monday-Friday Telework: Not eligible for telework. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Electronics Technician/PD13158A and PD07090A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.