This position is located in Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve.

This is a permanent, career -seasonal, career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service.

Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately mid-March-mid-November and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year (mid-November-Mid March).

Duties

As a GS 2181-12 Pilot you will:

• Serve as pilot-in-command of single-engine, fixed-wing aircraft equipped with wheels and skis. Aircraft operations involve flights over remote terrain, and are conducted from gravel bars, beaches, unimproved tundra strips, and ridge tops. Flights may be conducted in adverse weather, turbulence, and at low altitudes.

• Perform pre-mission planning, prepares, and files flight plans using flight planning publications and maps, schedules flights for the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve pilot and two Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve owned airplanes, maintains the fixed wing portion of the park aviation calendar, obtains and evaluates aviation weather reports and briefings. Perform preflight maintenance and operational checks on aircraft to determine air-worthiness. Check loading of aircraft to ensure that weight and balance limitations are not exceeded.

• Provide staff and aviation support for activities such as the following: park familiarization, transport of people and cargo; establishment and resupply of remote field camps, hunting and subsistence activities monitoring, wildlife and natural resource data collection, search and rescue missions, law enforcement patrols, and other related aviation activities as directed.

• During non-flying hours, the position will be assigned other duties. For example, the incumbent may coordinate or assist in emergency operations, including search and rescue, wildfire management, law enforcement and emergency medical operations; provide support to field rangers for criminal investigations.
  
  

This announcement is also being announced simultaneously to all US Citizens in announcement # AK-1537-WRST-24-12322851-DE.

Temporary government housing may be available for this position, up to one year.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship required.

• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.

• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males

• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.

• Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

• You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.

• Pre-employment and periodic physical examinations required.

• Maintain OAS Special Use Qualifications Card for Low Level, Unprepared Site and Ski plane

• You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.

• You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.

• If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.

• You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 10 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.

• You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.