This position is located in the Dental Service at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center where the incumbent functions as a Dental Laboratory Technician performing the full range of technical work in the fabrication and repair of fixed prostheses and removable prostheses. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/27/2022. 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-08 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Use of dental laboratory material such as impression materials, plasters, stones, hydrocolloids, waxes, metals, acrylics, porcelain, and similar materials. Use of laboratory equipment such as hand tools, dental lathes, engines, and hand pieces, furnaces, casting machines, presses, flasks, and related equipment. Use of precision instruments such as articulators, surveyors, and microanalyzers. Construction of dental prosthetic appliances. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have possess one full year of graduate education only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Attention to Detail Applies Technology to Tasks Technical competence Medicine and Dent 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work requires long period of sitting in one position and intense concentration on a limited field of view. Some standing, bending, stooping, and stretching will be required. Manual and finger dexterity are required to operate laboratory equipment. Color discrimination is required to establish proper shade matching and staining. 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/. ["Duties include but not limited to: Fabricating dental prostheses such as dentures, removable partial dentures, crowns, fixed partial dentures. Fabricating special dental appliances, such as orthodontic appliances and maxillary and mandibular splints, by utilizing various dental laboratory materials and equipment, and conforming to dentists' prescriptions. Work requires a high degree of skill and precision, a working knowledge of the general contour of supporting tissues, dental anatomy, implant components, and articulation of its application to the fabrication of prostheses and appliances. Equipment used includes, but is not limited to; the dental laboratory hand piece, burnout oven, casting machine, porcelain oven, CAD/CAM (Computer-Assisted Design/Computer-Assisted Manufacturing) equipment, bench lathe, electric soldering machine, flame soldering machine and gas torch, vacuum spatulator, precision model trimmer, pressure pot, boil out tank, flask press and denture bath. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 07:00 am to 5:30 pm\nTelework: Not Available.\nVirtual: This is not a virtual position.\nPosition Description/PD#: Dental Lab Technician/PD082280\nRelocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized\nFinancial Disclosure Report: Not required"]