Launch or advance your electrical engineering career with the Bureau of Reclamation! Apply your engineering skills to electrical systems that support critical water and power infrastructure. Gain experience in design, analysis, testing, troubleshooting, inspections, and system operations while working on meaningful projects that serve communities across the West. Learn more at: https://www.usbr.gov/ This vacancy is open to Recent Graduates only.
This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Mid Pacific Region, Water & Power Maintenance Branch, in Folsom, California. This is a developmental position with promotion potential to the GS-11 level. At lower grade levels, assignments are performed under closer supervision and involve less complex work.
As experience is gained, the employee will perform progressively more difficult assignments with increasing independence and responsibility until the full performance level is reached. At the full performance level (GS-11) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Perform electrical engineering analyses supporting the planning, design, operation, maintenance, and modernization of water, power, and related infrastructure.
Prepare engineering calculations, technical reports, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and other documentation supporting engineering projects and studies. Assist with or conduct inspections, condition assessments, investigations, and evaluations of electrical systems and recommend corrective actions. Analyze electrical equipment and system performance, evaluate technical data, troubleshoot problems, and recommend engineering solutions.
Collaborate with engineers, project managers, contractors, and other stakeholders to support engineering studies, construction activities, and project delivery. Support engineering projects involving hydroelectric facilities, pumping plants, substations, transmission systems, industrial control systems, and related infrastructure.
Apply engineering principles, standards, regulations, and industry practices to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of electrical facilities. Participate in project planning, technical reviews, compliance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives while developing increasing technical responsibility.
This position has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR), to meet this basic requirement applicants must meet one of the following (A or B): A. Education: A Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering.
To be acceptable, the program must: Lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR 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), 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. You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable.
A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S. Department of Education.
https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualification
jessica_baker@ios.doi.gov · 209-305-2069
This position is with Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $57999 – $125478/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-14.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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