Supervisory Interdisciplinary Engineer

Full Job Description

This position is part of the WAPA-UGP-Upper Great Plains.

As a Supervisory Interdisciplinary Engineer, you will be responsible for supervising foremen, journeyman level lineman, one or more engineers, formulating and executing a program, to include budget, maintaining all transmission lines under the representative Field Maintenance Office.

**THIS IS NOT A REMOTE POSITION. YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THE HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA 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.

Applicants must meet the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) for the 0800 Series listed below that must be met: Degree: Engineering.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) 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 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: 1.

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 gradfather 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.

2.

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.

3.

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. 4.

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.) 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 qualify for the GS-13: In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for the 0800 series, applicants must have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service.

This experience includes ALL the following: Developing emergency action plans and initiating actions and procedures to minimize power outages and provide uninterrupted power system service.

Providing advice to appropriate personnel during major power system facilities construction about the impact of safety and operations and maintenance.

Leading teams in a utility environment such as Transmission and Maintenance Operations to include training, performance evaluation, and administrative management.

"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.

Time-in-Grade: Current career or career-conditional GS employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional GS 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).

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current career or career-conditional federal employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Much of the work is in an office setting.

Periodically, the incumbent works in the field, which may include exposure to inclement weather, high noise levels, hand, eye, foot, and electrical shock hazards; and may require some walking, climbing, stooping, and bending.

The incumbent must wear personal protective equipment and follow standard safety procedures.

Mental and emotional stress may be incurred by the need for highly accurate decisions and recommendations that must be made quickly, with at time, limited or incomplete information.

The position may be called upon for support at any time including nights, weekends, and holidays. Major Duties:

As a Supervisory Electrical Engineer, some of your duties will include but are not limited to: Collaborate activities with power system operations office during normal and abnormal system conditions to maintain or restore services and obtain optimum system operating conditions.

In an acting position for the Division Maintenance Manager, coordinates normal or emergency actions of maintenance organization employees.

Advise and collaborate with UGPR and Headquarters engineering about new facility design, operations, and maintenance requirements.

Plans and directs a scheduled, electrical facilities, equipment, headquarter buildings, yard areas, approaches, and access roads maintenance and improvement program.

Plans, directs, and supervises all SDMO line crew related to heavy hydraulic cranes and special purpose vehicles maintenance and testing.

Incumbent provides administrative and technical supervision to subordinate staff normally consisting of at least nine or more employees.

In doing so, they provide administrative and technical supervision and direction of the function to facilitate work.