Manager Davis Dam

Full Job Description

Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Manager Davis Dam.

You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.

Duty Location: Davis Dam, Arizona Lower Colorado Basin Region, Lower Colorado Dams Office, Davis Dam Division located in Bullhead City, AZ.

To qualify for the GS-13 grade level, your resume must reflect one year of full time experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal service planning, directing, monitoring, and evaluating projects and programs of water facilities, power facilities or industrial powerplants.

Experience must also demonstrate the ability to provide supervision, leadership, guidance, and direction in performing maintenance or power operations work.

If your resume does not clearly reflect this experience, your application will be marked as not eligible.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

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 career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).

You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 01/21/2026. Major Duties:

Serves as Facility Manager, Davis Dam Field Division, and is responsible for all activities at the Davis Dam and Powerplant facility, an operating division of the Lower Colorado Dams Office (LCDO), located in Bullhead City, Arizona.

Provides management and oversight of all power plant activities as well as adjacent support facilities and land area.

Provides program planning, including the 10-year operating plan, development and justification of budget requirements for regular operations and maintenance as well as special projects, and formulates comprehensive long range, annual and special work programs to achieve objectives involving the power plant and associated general plant structures for presentation and approval by customer funding board.

Executes fiscal year work plans and associated budgets of approximately $5 million annually and ensuring plant operational performance goals are achieved (power generation, generator availability, outage rate, reservoir water release schedules) by properly managing resources (staff size and skill set, materials, tools and equipment) and scheduled maintenance outages Provides technical expertise in resolving electrical, mechanical, and other powerplant and structural related problems, and for design of modifications and replacements.

Assigns specific responsibility to key personnel to ensure proper operation and maintenance of the facilities at Davis Dam.

Establishes and maintains effective collaborative relationships with the public as well as customers and stakeholders where facility interests are involved