Summary THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This position is for a Supervisory Meteorological Technician, Position Description Number D1816000 located at 116 OSS, Robins AFB, Georgia This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Air National Guard Membership. Area of Consideration: Nationwide to members of the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and Active Duty Air Force. Responsibilities As a Supervisory Meteorological, GS-1341-11, you will: Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the assigned technicians, ensuring that the advice and assistance provided complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. Develop goal and objectives that integrate unit and overall meteorological/weather program objectives. Research, interpret, analyze, and apply applicable meteorological/weather guidelines, policies and objectives. Establish policies and procedures for accomplishment of the unit's weather mission. Plan and schedule work in a manner that promotes a smooth flow and even distribution. Coordinate, plan, and schedule with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Identify need for changes in priorities and take action to implement such changes. Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules. Coordinate with information technology and intelligence units and aircrews as appropriate. Review organization mission, functions, and manning. Identify requirements and initiate requests for additional resources including personnel, overtime, equipment, supplies, and space to ensure success in meeting goals and objectives. Provide advice to supervisor on significant issues and problems related to work accomplishment. Establish analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Accept, amend, or rejects work presented by subordinates. Perform self-inspection and present a detailed and comprehensive report with any corrective action taken to supervisor. Assess and revise policies and procedures as needed to improve quality, timeliness, and efficiency of work. Exercise supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Advise and provide counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management. Select or recommend selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO and diversity objectives. Develop, modify, and/or interpret performance standards. Explain performance expectations to employees and provides regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses. Hold employees responsible for satisfactory completion of work assignments. Appraise subordinate workers' performance ensuring consistency and equity in rating techniques. Recommend awards when appropriate and approves within grade increases. Identify employee developmental needs and provides or arrange for training (formal and on-the-job) to maintain and improve job performance. Encourage self-development. Approve master leave schedule assuring adequate coverage for peak workloads and traditional holiday vacation time. Demonstrate sensitivity to ideas of subordinates. Promote an environment in which employees are empowered to participate in and contribute to effective mission accomplishment. Discharge security responsibilities by ensuring education and compliance with security directives for employees with access to classified or sensitive material. Recognize and take action to correct situations posing a threat to the health or safety of subordinates. Apply EEO principles and requirements to all personnel management actions and decisions, and ensure all personnel are treated in a manner free of discrimination. Periodically review position descriptions to ensure accuracy, and the most effective utilization of personnel resources. Explain classification determinations to subordinate employees. Provide technical guidance and instructions to lower graded fulltime technicians and traditional military employees. Solve a variety of meteorological problems with other production personnel. Answer requests for technical information regarding regional products from field meteorologists, DoD customers and other users. Participate in technical briefings, conferences and meetings as required. Provide meteorological assistance and resolves most technical problems during the production process. Recommend techniques, methods and procedures to enlarge and improve the unit's forecasting capabilities. Provide weather briefings for supported aircrews in person or by telephone or closed circuit television. Modify forecasts developed by other activities to provide information on exact conditions expected to be encountered by the aircraft for projected timeframe for the area of operation. Research climatology data to provide information and prepare briefings. Research & maintain meteorological studies and reviews. Observe, encode, record, disseminate and evaluate weather observations. Observe weather phenomena, encodes and records the observation following established instructions and guides using computer-based systems in weather station. Disseminate weather observations using the system and/or other local procedures. Assist unit personnel by issuing & tracking weather advisories as required. Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Each applicant must fully substantiate (in her/his own words) that they meet the requirements of the specialized experience listed below; otherwise, the applicant will be considered unqualified for this vacancy. DO NOT COPY THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION. IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THE VACANCY. Please ensure that you have included beginning and ending dates (month and year) for all jobs listed on your resume. Military Grades: Min: SSgt Max: MSgt Compatible Military Assignments: AFSC: 1W071 General Experience: Must possess experience measuring meteorological phenomena with scientific equipment and instrumentation. Observing and recording atmospheric characteristics, i.e., temperature, air movement, visibility, pressure, air density, cloud types. Specialized Experience: Candidate must have 36 months specialized experience decoding, plotting, and systematically recording data related to the physical characteristics of the atmosphere, i.e., charts, diagrams, cross sections; Collecting, analyzing, interpreting, adjusting, and verifying atmospheric and other meteorological data to confirm and improve accuracy and efficacy. . Education Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience - A maximum of 12 months of the required experience may be substituted by successful completion of undergraduate study in an accredited college or university at the rate of 30 semester hours. The education must have been in fields directly related to the type of work of the position. You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position. Additional Information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest. May be eligible for Recruitment Incentive up to 25%