Electrical Engineer

Bureau of Reclamation; Mills (WY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyoming seeks an Electrical Engineer in the Engineering Group, to support the Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Region. The position focuses on electrical systems, electrical concepts, and applying engineering principles in a field environment.

The position is open to multiple recruitment methods with formal qualification standards; applicants must meet education and experience requirements and submit transcripts where required.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree with calculus and core engineering science coursework.
• One year of specialized experience at GS-07 level or equivalent education per standards.
• Familiarity with electrical/electronic systems and basic engineering computations.

Responsibilities

• Assist with design, repair, testing, or modification of electrical/electronic equipment or systems.
• Work with control circuits, relay and protections circuits, motors, PLCs and related equipment.

Skills

Electrical systems maintenance

Basic computations

Computer skills

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

FE/Engineer-in-Training eligibility

Professional Engineer licensure

Tools

PLC programming tools

Electrical testing equipment

Job description

You will serve as a Electrical Engineer with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Region, Engineering Group, Mills, Wyoming.

This position is also open to status candidates under announcement CBVI-27-13082277-MP-JP. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/23/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Basic Educational Requirement AND Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying.

Basic Educational Requirements

In addition to the specialized experience requirements for this position, you must meet at least one of the following;

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. You must submit copies of your transcripts.

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. -OR- 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. -OR- 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. -OR- 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-

To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level:

Specialized Experience Requirement:

you must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service or its non-Federal equivalent that included experience assisting with the maintenance of electrical systems; electrical concepts; preforming basic computations and calculations; Using computers, software applications, or databases to accomplish engineering assignments. -OR- Education: Successfully completion of 1 full year of progressively higher-level graduate education in a field that is directly related to the duties of this position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. You must include transcripts. -OR- Superior Academic Achievement: Successfully completed a bachelor's degree in a directly related field AND meet one of the following: (1) Class Standing: rank in the upper 3rd of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, based on the completed courses; OR (2) Grad-Point Average (GPA): earn a GPA of (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) based on 4 years of education, or based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum -or- (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field, or the required courses completed during the final two years. Note: GPA will be rounded to one decimal place, for example, 2.95 = 3.0, 2.94 = 2.9; OR (3) Membership in a National Scholastic Honor Society. -OR- Combination of education and experience: You must have equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education (in excess of the first year or 18 semester hours) and specialized experience to meet total experience requirements. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100% to qualify. You must include hours per week worked and transcripts.

To qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level:

Specialized Experience Requirement:

you must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service or its non-Federal equivalent that included experience in the design, repair, testing, or modification of electrical/electronic equipment or systems; working with at least one of the following: control circuits, relay and protections circuits, electrical generation and motor equipment, Programable Logic Controllers (PLC) and computerized control equipment, communication equipment, meters, sensors, governors, transformers, and auxiliary equipment.. -OR- Education: Successful completion of at least 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree in engineering or master's or equivalent graduate degree. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience: You must have equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education (in excess of the first year or 18 semester hours) and specialized experience to meet total experience requirements. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100% to qualify. You must include hours per week worked and transcripts.