- Position Title
- Electrical Engineer
- Agency
- Western Area Power Administration
- Announcement Number
- 21-WN-00218-11176250-DE Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, July 21, 2021 to Monday, August 2, 2021
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Preferences
1.
Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
2.
Do any of your relatives work for the agency to which you are applying? If so, please list any applicable names below. Please enter N/A in the text box, if not Applicable. (Include: father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, and half sister).
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I understand that the responses in this questionnaire must be fully supported in my online resume. I further understand that my resume must provide detailed descriptions and/or examples of my knowledge and competencies as required in the vacancy announcement, and that my failure to do so may result in my being rated "ineligible" or "not qualified" for this position.
Assessment 1
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ENGINEERS BASIC REQUIREMENT: Choose one answer that best describes how you meet the individual occupational requirements of this engineering position:
2.
GS-09 - Choose one answer that best describes your education and experience.
3.
GS-11 - Choose one answer that best describes your education and experience.
For each item, select the one response that most accurately describes your current level of experience and capability using the scale below.
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Review business requirements or software requirements to ensure the software applications meet the needs of business operation.
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Perform quality assurance or user acceptance test of software applications
6.
Develop Excel scripts in VBA and database queries in SQL to perform analysis or routine tasks.
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Work with IT staff and vendors to ensure the software specifications, design documents, and testing guides meet the business requirements.
8.
Perform load and resource analysis to determine surplus/deficit energy, and/or transmission.
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Develop and maintain optimization models and related computer programs for electrical power resources planning.
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Experience performing cost-benefit analysis (utilizing such concepts as present value, cost accounting, business economics, and the ability to quantify tangible and intangible benefits) for the purposes of determining potential impacts on power and transmission.
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Identify available transmission capacity and determine the optimal routes to deliver energy to load in accordance with various contractual provisions.
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Analyze market conditions, demand and price forecasts, and resource constraints.
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Use computer programs such as Positive Sequence Load Flow (PSLF), Power System Simulator/Engineers (PSS/E), or Power World Simulator to perform power flow and stability analysis.
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Analyze and evaluate utility resource planning functions, including demand and supply side activities.
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Prepares and collects compliance information for audits.
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Perform load forecasts and analysis.
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Review and analyze customer seasonal load requirements to verify that customers are properly scheduling power and energy allowed by contract.
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Compare large sets of data to perform quantitative analysis and seek and analyze anomalies.
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Perform production cost studies.
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Perform power system economic dispatch or optimal power flow studies and analysis.
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Perform power system studies and analysis using database and programming languages.
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Apply knowledge of power system analysis and computational tools to conduct transmission congestion analysis.
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Experience with power system operations concepts, theories, or principles sufficient to successfully accomplish complex power system project objectives.