Electrical Engineer Series

Bureau of Reclamation; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bureau of Reclamation in Boise, ID seeks an Electrical Engineer to provide expertise for a variety of projects, including diagnostics, electric reliability, compliance, construction administration, inspections, costs, specification writing, and evaluating facility operations.

Duty Location: Boise, ID. Candidates must meet the basic educational requirements and applicable federal experience criteria as outlined in the vacancy announcement. Some positions may require weekend work.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent combination qualifies under basic educational requirements.
• Time-in-Grade rules apply for current Federal employees as described in the vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical engineering expertise for diagnostics, electric reliability, compliance, construction administration, inspections, costs, specification writing, and evaluate facility operations.
• May be required to work weekends as needed.
• Support and oversee project execution and facility operating evaluations.

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

You will serve as a Electrical Engineer Series with Bureau of Reclamation This position is located in an operating office within the Department of the Interior/Bureau of Reclamation. This position provides electrical engineering expertise for a variety of projects including diagnostics, electric reliability, compliance, construction administration, inspections, costs, specification writing, and evaluate facility operations. You may be required to work weekends. Duty Location: Boise, ID

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 09/28/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following Basic Educational Requirement AND Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying. You must submit transcripts.

BASIC EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• 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: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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)2 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. 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. 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.

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