Public Utilities Specialist

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serve as the Public Utilities Specialist responsible for performing a variety of technical and analytical work in support of the installations utilities commodity and services purchase and sales.

This position is located at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the home of the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence.

Fort Rucker is located in the "Wiregrass" area in Southeast Alabama, surrounded by Enterprise, Ozark and Daleville.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience in examining various types of bills submitted by utility suppliers for payment of utility services; experience calculating energy consumption and costs and knowledge of regulating procedures and policies related to the purchase and contract sell of utility commodities.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D.

in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: a degree in any major study.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Attention to Detail Contract Management/Support Customer Service Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Oral Communication Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Technical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).

Major Duties:

• Correspond with various utility companies regarding purchase of utilities relative to cost adjustments or discrepancies.
• May serve as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for Utilities Purchase Contracts and process payments for Utility Energy Savings Contracts (UESC) Projects and Utility Privatization (UP) contracts.
• Perform contract administration functions for all installation long term (up to 50 Years) UP contracts and all Utilities Sales and Purchase contracts.
• Verify Memorandums Of Understanding (MOU'S), Interservice Support Agreements (ISSAs) for the sale of utilities services, supplemental agreements, change orders and modifications to same for approval.
• Maintain a financial spreadsheet to provide utilities cost/consumption data and reimbursable collection data for use in customer account inquiries.