Electronic Technician Position Available In Westchester, New York

Applicants must have a valid state drivers license, a safe driving record, and at least two years ofunsupervised experience driving passenger cars or larger. Postal Service employment is conditional upon your meeting medical suitability, general eligibility and suitability, and background check requirements. Must be able to communicate in and understand the English language with or without a reasonable disability accommodation under the Rehabilitation Act. Therefore, if you receive a job offer note that it will be conditional upon you meeting these requirements, even if you are allowed to begin working first.

Applicants must successfully complete Postal Service Test 955, for the Electronics Technician job group, which measuresmaintenance knowledge, skills and abilities.

This section is composed of the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities which are required to satisfactorily perform the tasks of theposition. Independently performs the full range of diagnostic, preventive maintenance, alignment and calibration, and overhaul tasks, on both hardware and software on a variety of mail processing, customer service, and building equipment and systems, applying advanced technical knowledge to solve complex problems. 1 Ability to demonstrate mechanical comprehension to learn and apply mechanical principles, including a working knowledge of basic mechanical operations (such as levers and pulleys) and the application of physical laws (such as force and gravity). This includes knowledge in the following areas: (A) Power transmission

• such as gears, sprockets and chains, belts and pulleys; (B) Power translation
• such as cams and cam followers, linkages, springs; (C) Friction reduction’such as bushings, bearings; (D) Fasteners
• such as screws, nuts and bolts, pins, rings, clips, couplings.

2 Knowledge of basic electricity principles; this includes knowledge of Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s law, AC-DC circuitry, relays, switches, and circuit breakers. Knowledge of the National Electrical Code may be required for employees in a skilled position. This also includes knowledge of techniques and procedures as used in electrical installations and maintenance (circuit protection, wiring, conduits, etc.). 3 Knowledge of electronic principles; this includes knowledge of (A) basic logic gates, symbology, resistors, memory, encoders, decoders, etc.; (B) Hardware/components

• such as solid state devices (diodes, transistors, etc.), coils, capacitors, etc.; (C) Digital circuit components
• as in registers, adders, counters, memories, flip-flops, encoders, decoders, etc.; and D) AC and DC circuitry
• as in circuit analysis, schematic interpretation, etc.