This position is located with Bonneville Power Administration, in Specialty Services (TFHS) organization of Construction & Maintenance Services (TFH), Transmission Field Services (TF), Transmission Services (T). A successful candidate in the Welder position will lay out and fabricate welded products in the shop or at other installations in the BPA system.
As a Welder, you will: From drawings and verbal instructions, fabricates, assembles and repairs all types of bus fittings from copper or aluminum. From work sheets or drawings, fabricates and pre-stresses all types of bus, consisting of copper or aluminum. Erect copper or aluminum bus in switchyards From drawings and verbal instructions, fabricates and installs at proper elevations, oil lines on transformers and breakers.
Perform all types of general welding on shop fabrications, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and chromium structures, trucks, dozers, cranes, booms, shovel buckets, etc. Select proper electrode alloys for the type of metal to be worked. Uses electric and diesel generator welding machines, including heliarc, mig, and stick process. Silver solder, plasma, and oxy-fuel cutting, carbon arc gouging.
Uses various heavy machine tools as required, such as power saws, cut off saws, CNC guided plasma & oxy/fuel cutting machine, drill press, pipe bending machine, etc. From written or oral instructions, blueprints or sketches, the Welder plans own work, makes templates when necessary, and selects methods, materials and machines appropriate for the project.
There are no specific education requirements or substitution of education for experience for this position.
lfmonroyflores@bpa.gov · 503-230-5888
This position is with Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy.
The posted pay range is $72.41 – $72.41/hr.
Applications close on 2026-11-01.
There are 4 openings for this position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government · Retrieved 2026-10-23 · Not affiliated with or endorsed by OPM or USAJOBS.gov
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