MEDICAL CARE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICIAN

This Medical Care Transportation Technician position is in Fire Department services at the VA Maine Healthcare System, located at the Augusta location.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/22/2026.

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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. 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 may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

Specialized Experience:

You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Work that involves a wide variety of technical emergency medical steps which include examining patients, proper equipment and medicine selection/operation, operating emergency vehicles, using emergency communication equipment, identifying the nature and extent of a patient's condition or seriousness of the injuries or illness, and assessing the patient's emergency care requirements. Responding to most emergency conditions using established approaches that relate to the diagnosed conditions, makes choices recognizing the difference in symptoms and illnesses, and determines the best approach for treatment. Handling emergency situations and decisions that involve complicating factors which sometimes hinder use of standard procedures, and normal alternatives, and must adapt to specific emergency and clinical situations. Such factors include changing medical conditions, seriousness of the illness/injury, mental and physical capacity of the patient, procedure alternatives, or special procedures/decisions to meet specific emergency situations. The work performed requires variations of technical factors to accommodate the patient's condition, extending standard methods, and changing conventional methods to produce acceptable results.

OR, Education:

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have two full years of graduate experience or a master's degree. One year of full time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent one year of full time study. Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required in those instances here it directly related to the work. 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/ .