Summary Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Electrical Engineer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. Duty Location: Lakewood, Colorado Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. Responsibilities Position serves as an expert engineer providing electrical engineering consultation and advisement to senior colleagues and/or Department or Reclamation officials for significant projects with complex features representing an important segment of the Department's operating programs or affecting the welfare of the public and/or the sustainability of natural resources and the environment. As an expert engineer, provides mentorship and leadership; applies experimental theories and/or new applications or developments; and provides significant and innovative recommendations for advancing programs and/or electrical engineering methods. Electrical engineering assignments may specialize in one or more specialties: Design, Protection Systems and Studies, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Diagnostics and Testing, and Control System Diagnostics and Testing. Complex features/facilities include hydroelectric generating powerplants; transmission systems; pumping plants; buildings; and multipurpose water conveyance, treatment, and storage systems such as dams, canals, pipelines, tunnels, desalination, and related appurtenant systems. Electrical systems include communication, control, and security systems (e.g., ICS, SCADA); generators, motors, pump-generators, generator step-up transformers, station service equipment, switchyard equipment, and auxiliary systems. Duties include but are not limited to: - Advises senior leadership, program officials, and colleagues on engineering analysis, recommendations, and study conclusions. - Develops engineering policies, technical guidelines and standards, and/or project or study objectives. - Leads and advises technical teams, directing technical procedures and practices for the teams. - Provides technical direction, leadership, mentorship, guidance, training, and advice to engineers and technicians and other internal and external stakeholders. - Provides technical reviews, peer reviews, and checking of designs, drawings, engineering analysis, technical documents, specifications, cost estimates, and contract correspondence, ensuring documents are accurate and quality assurance processes were followed. - Reviews may be outside of the organization or designed by others. Signs documents for technical approval in accordance with Reclamation and Department policies, directives, and standards; this includes signing as the engineer in responsible charge. - Directs, plans, develops, and prepares procedures, policies, and/or protocols for electrical engineering studies and special projects that require advanced engineering analysis that extends or modifies theories, concepts, and assumptions or resolves unique or novel problems, conditions, or issues.- Plans and coordinates programs or projects which are innovative and original. - Develops methods and procedures which become the established precedent. - Engineering analysis may result in significant alteration of standard practices, processes, devices, equipment, and known techniques. - Studies and projects include technical planning activities; data collection; modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/orconditions; risk estimation and analyses; and analyses of instrumentation data. - Develops project job plans, guidelines, protocols, and procedures that are specific to the project and develops new methods and criteria. - Leads or participates on teams that propose or develop new policies, standards, and power technical documents (e.g., Facilities Instructions, Standards and Techniques (FIST), power equipment bulletins (PEB), power reliability compliance bulletins (PRCB)). - Directs, guides, plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts electrical engineering facility examinations, reviews, and/or inspections which include conducting condition assessments and construction and transfer inspections. - Commissioning and testing electrical equipment and protection systems; identifying and addressing deficiencies relative to design criteria, applicable codes and standards, or state or Federal statutes or regulations. - Calculating preliminary estimates for repairs. - Coordinating with internal and external partners. - Documenting and presenting results; conducting root cause analyses. - Analyzing unexpected event reports; conducting accident and incident investigations. - Identifying future needs for the asset investment such as extraordinary maintenance and rehabilitation; and project management planning. Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National. You must be suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigation. You must submit a resume and supporting documentation (see Required Documents). You must submit eligibility documents for veterans consideration (see Required Documents). You must meet any minimum education and/or experience requirements (see Qualifications). You must submit transcript(s) to verify education requirements (see Qualifications/Education). Who May Apply: 30% or More Disabled Veterans Bureau of Reclamation Employees (Competitive) Bureau of Reclamation Employees (Non-Competitive) Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Department of the Interior Employees (Competitive) Department of the Interior Employees (Non-Competitive) Federal Employees (Competitive Transfer) Federal Employees (Non-Competitive Transfer) Former Federal Employees (Competitive Reinstatement) Former Federal Employees (Non-Competitive Reinstatement) Individuals with Disabilities (Schedule A) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) Military Spouses Miscellaneous Appointing Authorities Pathways Program - Conversion Eligible Peace Corps & AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteers Public Lands Corps (PLC) Hiring Authority Special Hiring Authorities Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) Veterans Recruitment Authority (VRA) Qualifications To qualify for the Electrical Engineer GS-0850-13, you must meet BOTH the Basic Education Requirement and the Specialized Experience Requirement. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. A copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application. Basic Education Requirement: To be eligible for consideration, you must meet both the Basic Education Requirement and Specialized Experience Requirement for this position, having a: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) AND Specialized Experience Requirement: In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must also meet the following for the GS-0850-13 grade level. Specialized experience is obtained after the requirements noted under 'Basic Education Requirements' are met. The HR Office must be able to determine that the applicant meets the following specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level. To meet specialized experience, your resume must describe experience that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities as follows: Performing engineering analyses to include performing and coordinating technical planning activities; data collection (including validation and management); design; modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; troubleshooting electrical equipment and systems; and risk estimation and analyses. 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; religious; 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. Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Selective Placement Factor: This position requires a current, valid Professional Engineering (P.E.) License with an expiration date. Failure to provide proof of such license will cause you to be rated ineligible for this position. You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 09/27/2024. Education This position has a mandatory education requirement. You must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in being rated not-qualified for the position. You will be required to provide official college transcripts to verify educational qualifications, if selected. An official transcript must be sent directly from the University's Registrar's office and must be provided from the institution awarding the degree. Academic transcripts certified by notary publics are NOT official. Official transcripts must be submitted prior to reporting to work as a condition of employment. Failure to submit official transcripts may be grounds for dismissal or rescission of the job offer. Accreditation: Only education from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education is acceptable to meet education requirements or to substitute for experience, if applicable. For additional info, refer to the Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Department of Education. Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For additional info, refer to the U.S. Network for Education Information. Additional Information You may be required to serve an initial probationary period. Reclamation has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and you may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval. If otherwise eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocation incentive. The decision to offer an incentive will be made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For information visit: Recruitment Incentive or Relocation Incentive. DOI uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including applicant rights and responsibilities, please visit https://www.e-verify.gov/ This position is designated as a LOW RISK position. It requires a fully completed and favorably adjudicated SF85 Background Investigation (T1 or equivalent) that is current (within the last 5 years). This is a condition of employment. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must certify registration with the Selective Service System or that the applicant is exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. Go to: https://www.sss.gov This is a non-bargaining unit position. Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.