This position is internal to WAPA. As a Supervisory Electrical Engineer, you will oversee the maintenance and operations of critical power grid systems, ensuring reliable power delivery and compliance with industry standards. This role involves supervising a team of 24 electrical engineers and various technical staff, including managing their performance, training, and adherence to safety. **This is not a REMOTE position. You will be required to report to your selected duty location.**
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. In order to be qualified for this position, you must meet the basic requirement AND minimum qualification requirements BASIC REQUIREMENT: You must meet one of the following: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; 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: Statics, dynamics Strength of materials (stress-strain relationships) Fluid mechanics, hydraulics Thermodynamics Electrical fields and circuits Nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties) 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 A thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and 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. 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.) MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required specialized experience and/or education for the respective grade level(s) in which you are applying: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. The experience need not have been in the federal government. To be qualified at the GS-13: In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) for the 800 series (Engineering Series), applicants must have one (1) year (52 weeks) of specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent pay band in Federal Service. This experience includes: Manage and maintenance of high-voltage power system protection and control apparatus. Lead technical teams in an electrical utility or similar operational environment. Formulate, interpret, and ensure compliance with NERC, WECC, and other relevant electrical reliability standards. "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. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your full resume will be made available to the hiring manager if you are referred.
As aSupervisory Electrical Engineer, some of your duties will include: Plans, manages, implements, reviews, and oversees DSW Protection and Control maintenance, operations, activities, and projects. Establishes protection and control maintenance policies, practices, and procedures ensuring compliance with national, DOE, WAPA, DSW, NERC, and WECC reliability standards. Develops and executes the long-range protective relaying and revenue meter facilities preventative maintenance program budget. Manages maintenance work scheduling, equipment status checks, execution, and reporting. Directs power system facilities protective relaying and metering equipment maintenance and upgrades operations and activities. Reports, analyzes, investigates, documents, mitigates, and resolves false relay operations. Supervises Electrical Engineers, Foreman, Metering and Relay, Protection and Control, Electronic Integrate Systems Mechanics Journeymen and Developmental Craftsmen.