Electrical Engineer.

US Army Corps of Engineers; Pomeroy (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to support a large multi-purpose project, including powerhouse, spillway, fish facility, navigation lock, and recreation-related equipment.

The role guides reliability and maintainability of equipment and systems, defines PM/PdM processes, and provides technical assistance on materials and spare parts, coordinating with contractors to avoid schedule slips and maintain safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required, ABET-accredited program preferred.
• Experience with preventive/predictive maintenance planning and analysis.
• Ability to coordinate contractor work andCOR communications to ensure progress and safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical maintenance for a large multi-purpose project including powerhouse, spillway, fish facility, navigation lock, and recreation-related equipment.
• Develop and monitor the preventive/predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) process across equipment and facilities.
• Provide technical assistance to supervisors and craft foremen in material selection, equipment and spare parts replacement with original equipment or field repairs.
• Coordinate contractor work with project activities to prevent schedule slips and ensure safety and reliability.

Skills

Electrical systems maintenance

PM/PdM planning

Contractor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (ABET accredited)

Tools

Instrumentation & control systems

Job description

• Serves as an Electrical Maintenance Engineer for the Project.
• Responsible for a variety of functions in support of a large multi-purpose project, including powerhouse, spillway, fish facility, navigation lock, and recreation related equipment and features.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, safety, and security systems.
• Defines, designs, develops, and monitors the preventive/predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) process by considering: proper operations/care of equipment; inspections, adjustments, replacements, overhauls for equipment; investigation of trouble reports.
• Provides technical assistance to supervisors and craft foremen in the selection of materials, equipment and spare parts replacement with original equipment, field repairs/fabrication, or replacement of entire part with commercial equipment.
• Develops and evaluates alternative choices for equipment modifications by studying new developments in the industry and integrating state-of-the-art technology into the evaluation of existing powerhouse.
• Technical point of contact for hydroelectric generators/governors, instrumentation and control systems, power transformers, generator excitation systems, plant grounding systems, and computers used to control the above systems.
• Coordinates contractor work with Project activities, working closely with the Contractor's or the Construction Division's COR and the Project's maintenance working foreman to prevent schedule slips.

Duties

• Serves as an Electrical Maintenance Engineer for the Project.
• Responsible for a variety of functions in support of a large multi-purpose project, including powerhouse, spillway, fish facility, navigation lock, and recreation related equipment and features.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, safety, and security systems.
• Defines, designs, develops, and monitors the preventive/predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) process by considering: proper operations/care of equipment; inspections, adjustments, replacements, overhauls for equipment; investigation of trouble reports.
• Provides technical assistance to supervisors and craft foremen in the selection of materials, equipment and spare parts replacement with original equipment, field repairs/fabrication, or replacement of entire part with commercial equipment.
• Develops and evaluates alternative choices for equipment modifications by studying new developments in the industry and integrating state-of-the-art technology into the evaluation of existing powerhouse.
• Technical point of contact for hydroelectric generators/governors, instrumentation and control systems, power transformers, generator excitation systems, plant grounding systems, and computers used to control the above systems.
• Coordinates contractor work with Project activities, working closely with the Contractor's or the Construction Division's COR and the Project's maintenance working foreman to prevent schedule slips.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a state issued driver’s license.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is

Basic Requirement For Electrical Engineer

• Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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

• 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: 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. 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, or Puerto Rico. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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.

In Addition To Meeting The Basic Requirement Above, To Qualify For This Position You Must Also Meet The Qualification Requirements Listed Below:

GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience with professional electrical engineering activities at a manufacturing or industrial facility. Must include experience analyzing policies, procedures and governing regulations. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR

Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Electrical Engineering.

OR

Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36