Electrical Engineer.

Bonneville Power Administration; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

You will coordinate multi-package design and construction efforts, verify contractor milestones, and ensure adherence to BPA standards and codes. This role requires engineering credentials, project oversight experience, and strong QA discipline.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with ABET accreditation or equivalent education/experience.
• Professional registration/licensure in engineering (PE) or FE exam, endorsed by boards.
• Education must cover core engineering science topics and math as described.
• Time-in-Grade/CTAP/ICTAP eligibility as applicable.
• Foreign/equivalent education must be evaluated per US rules.

Responsibilities

• Serve as COR for complex substation engineering capital projects and coordinate with transmission strategy.
• Perform technical evaluations of contractor proposals and prepare engineering SOWs.
• Provide technical review, oversight, and QA of project designs, layouts, and construction packages.
• Coordinate schedules and track multi-package delivery to ensure integration and compliance with standards.
• Ensure engineering packages meet project requirements and grid integration parameters.
• Monitor contractor performance and address deviations or non-conformance under BPA protocols.

Skills

Contracting

Project coordination

Technical evaluation

Quality assurance

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

FE exam / Engineer-in-Training

Professional Engineer licensure (PE)

60 semester hours in engineering sciences

Related engineering curriculum with 1 year professional experience

Job description

Duties

• Serve as the primary coordinator and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for complex substation engineering capital projects, supporting a Transmission-wide strategy for capital project delivery.
• Perform technical evaluations of contractor proposals, prepares detailed engineering Statements of Work (SOWs), and provides rigorous technical verification of contract milestones.
• Provide technical review, oversight, and quality assurance of complex project designs, physical substation layouts, and construction packages.
• Coordinate, schedule, and track multi-faceted design and construction packages to ensure all substation engineering layouts, electrical bus work, grounding, schematics, and equipment selections are fully integrated, technically sound, and compliant with BPA transmission standards, industry codes, and safety requirements.
• Ensure all engineering packages meet project-specific requirements, grid integration parameters, and BPA standards.
• Monitor contractor performance, resolve technical design deviations or contract non-conformance issues under BPI protocols, and ensures that delivered systems meet safety and utility-grade performance criteria.

Requirements

In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answer to these questions is not scored or rated. Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration.

Key Requirements

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• Males must abide by Selective Service registration requirements.
• You will be required to report in person to the official duty location.

Conditions of Employment

• Selectee will be required to complete the Office of Government Ethics Standard of Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OFGE450e) within 30 days of employment and annually.
• May be required to serve as Contracting Officers Representative for BPA grants and agreements; this duty includes additional training and certification.

Qualifications

• 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-
• 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. -OR-
• 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-
• 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-
• 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.)

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level [enter grade] in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience in planning and conducting professional electrical engineering studies, analyses, designs, and tests to solve problems related to software application design, development, maintenance, operation and analysis of circuits related to an electricity distribution or transmission system. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. 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 Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement to receive consideration.

CTAP/ICTAP candidates: To be considered "well qualified" you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section.

You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

This vacancy has a positive education requirement. In order to be rated as qualified, you must provide copies of your college transcripts. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See

Foreign education must be reviewed by an organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see

Failure to provide copies of your college transcripts may result in a rating of "Ineligible".

Additional information

• The salary is based on a Special Rate Table, Number 0754:
• This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional similar vacancies across DOE

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Veterans Information

Telework

Selective Service Registration

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