Student Trainee

About the Position: This announcement covers a variety of Student Trainee positions under the Direct Hire Authority for Post-Secondary Students.

This is an Open Continuous Job Announcement with a closing date of December 31, 2025.

Applicants must reapply every 90 days to remain eligible for consideration. Resumes will be pulled as vacancies occur within each district.

Duties

• Post-secondary student positions are provided opportunities for development and training. Assignments become more responsible as incumbent increases knowledge and skills through work experience and academic training.
• Assignments at this level are designed to orient, train, and increase the incumbent's knowledge in the engineering sciences, to problems concerned with testing a wide variety of systems and equipment.
• Performs a variety of assignments selected to broaden skills and provide practical experience to prepare for progressively more complex assignments.
• Full performance duties typically involve creating, exploring, evaluating, designing, and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues.

Requirement

Conditions of employment

• A one year trial or probationary period may be required in accordance with agency policy.
• A post-secondary student appointment expires 120 days after completion of the designated academic course of study, unless the student is selected for noncompetitive conversion.
• Post-secondary students being converted to positions covered under Administrative Careers with America (ACWA) must be assessed prior to non-competitive conversion.
• Post-secondary students will initially be appointed to a term appointment in the competitive service for an initial period expected to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of 4 years.
• Some positions may require one or more of the following: valid driver's and/or boat license, drug testing, pre-employment physical, and/or wearing of personal protective equipment (I.e., uniform, hard hat, goggles, masks, gloves, etc.).
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Selections may be made at the GS-03, GS-04, GS-05, or GS-07 grade level and salary will be set based on the grade level and duty location at the time of selection.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify at the GS-03 grade level, applicants must have completed one full academic year of post-high school study relevant to the position/series.

To qualify at the GS-04 grade level, applicants must have completed two full academic years of post-high school study or have an associate's degree relevant to the position/series.