- Position Title
- Line Equipment Operator A & Live Line
- Agency
- Bonneville Power Administration
- Announcement Number
- 24-BPA-J01293-12309332-BL Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, January 1, 2024 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Are you a current career/career-conditional federal employee at the Department of Energy applying for a PROMOTION to a position with a higher grade/pay band or higher promotion potential than you previously held on a permanent basis?
Note: also select "Yes" if applying for a change-to-lower grade (CTLG) to a position with higher promotion potential than you previously held on a permanent basis.
Check the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section in the job announcement for instructions to support your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
Note: also select "Yes" if applying for a change-to-lower grade (CTLG) to a position with higher promotion potential than you previously held on a permanent basis.
Check the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section in the job announcement for instructions to support your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
2.
Are you a current career/career-conditional federal employee at the Department of Energy applying for a REASSIGNMENT, CHANGE-TO-LOWER GRADE, or REPROMOTION and you currently or previously held a position with the same grade/pay band or higher and the same or higher promotion potential on a permanent basis?
Check the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section in the job announcement for instructions to support your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
Check the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section in the job announcement for instructions to support your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
Preferences
1.
Select the location(s) you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one location.
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, son-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, and half sister).
Assessment 1
1.
Choose one answer that best describes your qualification for this position.
INSTRUCTIONS: If you are applying for a promotion or change in craft, you must provide a response to all of the following questions. If you fail to answer any questions, your application will be incomplete and you will not be eligible for consideration. Your self-ratings on the multiple choice answers will be validated against your resume and information provided in the narrative responses. If we are unable to find the information in your resume or narrative response, your score may be lowered. To ensure you receive credit for your self-rating, within your resume or narrative response you must:
* Provide complete examples as requested,
* Indicate the depth of individual involvement, level of responsibility, complexity of the task, and degree of difficulty, and
* Detail events as they occurred.
If you are applying for a lateral reassignment or change in duty station, select the response "N/A - Lateral Move" for each multiple choice question and enter N/A in each narrative textbox.
* Provide complete examples as requested,
* Indicate the depth of individual involvement, level of responsibility, complexity of the task, and degree of difficulty, and
* Detail events as they occurred.
If you are applying for a lateral reassignment or change in duty station, select the response "N/A - Lateral Move" for each multiple choice question and enter N/A in each narrative textbox.
2.
Experience and skill to successfully perform a Line Equipment Operator A, BB 2810-00, is the ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision to accomplish the works and trades in operating line maintenance truck equipped with hydraulically or mechanically operated attachments, aerial platforms, spray equipment, line stringing, or reeling attachments. Select the one statement that best describes your level of experience. Experience reflected in this self-rating must be supported in your resume. Failure to meet this element results in an ineligible rating. (SCREEN-OUT)
3.
Do you possess a valid Class A commercial driver's license (CDL) with restriction of airbrakes?
4.
Perform transmission line maintenance, right-of-way and access road maintenance, danger tree removal, or force account construction jobs assigned observing standardized procedure.
5.
Give job situations concerning equipment operations in which you were required to follow this type of instructions.
6.
Ensure underground electrical utilities are located and marked before excavation
7.
Describe how you have used specific equipment to accomplish this task and for what purpose.
8.
Operate wheel tractors with loader-backhoe or brush cutting attachments to assists line crew with construction, maintenance, or repair of overhead or underground energized power line.
9.
Describe how you have safely used the types of equipment or other similar types of equipment near energized power lines.
10.
Read diagrams and technical manual to complete parts installation, maintenance, and repair on equipment related to line maintenance and construction.
11.
Give type of instruction and specifications (e.g., operating maintenance manuals, blueprint plans) of experience you have had in performing this task.
12.
Use hand tools such as shackles, plumb bob, and cable cutters while performing repairs.
13.
Describe how you used various hand tools and for what purpose, as it relates to Line Equipment Operator.
14.
Assist in trouble shooting and locating damaged electrical equipment using maps, one-line diagrams, electrical testing equipment, etc.
15.
Describe at least (2) of your experiences performing the above task.