USAJOBS Hiring for Explosives Investigator at Pentagon City, VA Full Time

This is an open continuous announcement. Applicants will be reviewed throughout the open period of the announcement. The first cut-off date for consideration of applicants will be 8/10/2024. Thereafter, the cut-off for applications received will be 9/10/2024; 10/9/2024; 11/8/2024; and 12/10/2024; etc., until the job opportunity announcement closes.

• Serves as a liaison with other law enforcement, public safety officers and fire service personnel and provides technical investigative assistance and expert advice in support of investigations involving criminal violations of Federal explosives and arson laws.
• Responsible for the daily transportation and physical protection of government property, such as: explosives, explosive evidence, and other hazardous materials.
• Conducts investigations of post-blast scenes, technical investigative guidance, and provides expert advice in support of investigations.
• Locates explosives, booby traps; and identifies the presence of additional hazardous materials which may present a threat to agent, officer, or to public safety.
• Provides technical assistance and expert advice in support of investigations involving criminal violations of Federal explosives and arson laws.
• Develops bomb threat awareness and safety programs for potentially affected personnel, particularly the Pentagon facilities workforce.
• Renders safe and/or removal of suspected Improvised explosive devices (IED’s) incendiary devices, explosives, explosive chemicals, pyrotechnics, and ammunition.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship or National
• This national security position, which may require access to classified information, requires a favorable suitability review and security clearance as a condition of employment. Failure to maintain security eligibility may result in termination.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. (See https://www.sss.gov/)
• Required to participate in the direct deposit program
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• Position has been designated as Top Secret/SCI. Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing.
• This position may require occasional travel away from your normal duty station for official business on military or commercial aircraft.
• This position has been designated as “Mission Essential.” Incumbent will be required to report to work or relocate to a new duty location, within the United States, in times of local/national emergency.
• The incumbent may be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, recall, and/or holidays and/or overtime.
• The incumbent is required to pass a pre-employment and yearly physical examination for this position.
• The incumbent is required to wear protective equipment, i.e., bomb suit, arc flash rated suit, tyvek suits and respirators, while working in hazardous areas.
• This position requires the employee to work rotating shifts, weekends, recall, overtime, holidays and may be subject to call 24 hours a day.
• The position requires meeting the requirements of “Lautenberg Agreement” which outline rules regarding possessing and carrying of firearms.
• The employee must obtain and maintain a Hazardous Materials Technician certification.
• The employee must successfully obtain and maintain the U.S. Public Safety Bomb Technician Certification per Paragraph 4.1.1, FBI Hazardous Devices School (HDS) is required for initial certification.
• An HDS graduate is also required to attend recertification every three years.
• The employee must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license from the jurisdiction where he or she resides.
• This position requires that the candidate must sign a mobility agreement as a condition of employment. PFPA may relocate covered positions and covered employees in permanent changes of duty station between PFPA duty locations.

Qualifications

For qualifications determinations, it is recommended that applicants include their months and hours worked per week for each employment listed on their resume. If a determination is not able to be made about the length of your creditable experience for qualification requirements, you will be removed from consideration. Read more about what should I include in my federal resume at https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/application/documents/resume/what-to-include/

Specialized Experience

For the GS-09, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade GS-07within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as experience in detection, identification, field evaluation, render safe, recovery, removal, mitigation and disposal of suspected improvised explosive device (IED), explosives and ammunition.

For the GS-11, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade GS-09within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as experience in detection, identification, field evaluation, render safe, recovery, removal, mitigation and disposal of suspected improvised explosive device (IED), explosives and ammunition; and conducting investigations.

For the GS-12, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade GS-11within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as experience in detection, identification, field evaluation, render safe, recovery, removal, mitigation and disposal of suspected improvised explosive device (IED), explosives and ammunition; and conducting investigations; and providing technical advice and recommendations on criminal acts, terrorist acts and post blast scenes.

Volunteer Experience: 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; religious; spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

All qualifications must be met at the closing date of this announcement.

Education

GS-9 Substitution of Education for Experience: Two full years of progressively higher level graduate education, Master’s or equivalent graduate degree, may be substituted to meet the qualifying experience requirement. If you are using education to substitute for the qualifying experience, you must submit transcripts at the time you apply.

GS-11 Substitution of Education for Experience: Three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree may be substituted to meet the qualifying experience requirement. If you are using education to substitute for the qualifying experience, you must submit transcripts at the time you apply.

There is no substitution of education for the qualifying experience at the GS-12 grade level.

Official Transcripts: If the position you are applying for has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications (i.e. you would not qualify without the education obtained), you MUST submit transcripts with your application.

• • Official transcripts are not required at the time of application outside of what is outlined above; however, official transcripts must be verified PRIOR to appointment.
  • An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation.
• FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying or prior to appointment as outlined above.
• Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation upon request. Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost consideration.

For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S. Department of Education

Additional Information

• Retired Civil Service Employee: Employment of retired Federal employees receiving an annuity is subject to the requirements of the Department of Defense (DoD) policy guidance. (See DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 300, at https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf .)
• This position not covered by a bargaining unit.
• This position is Exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): If you are a displaced Federal Civil Service employee and attain a rating of at least 85, you may be entitled to receive special priority selection under the ICTAP. For more information on ICTAP, click here ICTAP Guidance .
• Current or Former Political Appointees: Beginning January 1, 2010, agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level under the provisions of title 5, United States Code. If you are currently or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you MUST disclose that to the Human Resources Office. Submit a copy of your SF-50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent political appointment:
• Position title;
• Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
• Agency; and,
• Beginning and ending dates of appointment.
• ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS: The VOW Act Chapter 21 of Title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 2108a, requires Federal agencies treat active duty service member as veterans, disabled veterans, and preference eligible, when they submit, at the time they apply for a Federal job, a “certification” of active service in lieu of a DD-214, assuming the service member is otherwise eligible. A “certification” letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service. The service member’s military service dates are necessary in order to determine whether he or she meets the definition of “veteran” under 5 U.S.C. 2108(1). The “certification” must reflect the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions not later than 120 days after the date of submission. The “certification” must be signed by, or by direction of, the adjutant, personnel officer, or commander of your unit or higher headquarters and must indicate when your terminal leave will begin (if applicable), your rank, dates of active duty service, the type of discharge and character of service (i.e. honorable). Further, under paragraph (h) of the rule, agencies are required to verify a qualifying separation from military service prior to appointment, through the DD-214 or other appropriate documentation. Your preference and/or appointment eligibility will be verified prior to appointment. Active duty members that fail to provide a valid “certification” of service with their initial application will be found ineligible for veteran’s preference.
• Nepotism: Under the provisions of 5 USC 3110, an individual may not be appointed into a position if the position is under the supervisory chain of command of a relative.