METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is: To provide meteorological services, which are vital to the support of operational weather and resource protection.

Provides complex operational weather support to Air Force, Army, Reserve, Guard, and other DOD customers. Identifies, evaluates, and monitors significant weather developments, especially as they present potential impacts on critical flight operations. Provides technical guidance and instructions to lower graded technical employees, or airmen. Solves a variety of meteorological problems with other production personnel. Provides weather briefings for local, transient, and other supported aircrews in person or by telephone or closed circuit television. Observes, encodes, records, disseminates, and evaluates weather observations. Observes weather phenomena, encodes and records the observation following established Air Force instructions and guides using computer-based systems in the weather station.