- Position Title
- Electrician (High Voltage)
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSW-12712955-25-BS Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025 to Thursday, May 15, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Are you currently employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
3.
Are you a current permanent Federal employee from an agency other than Department of Veterans Affairs?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form.
4.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
- you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
- your grade is equivalent to or below the grade level of the vacancy; AND,
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
5.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from a position in a federal agency other than the Department of Veterans Affairs? If yes, confirm:
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
- you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
- you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
6.
Do you have an intellectual disability, severe physical disability, or psychiatric disability that qualifies you for Schedule A Disability appointments?
For more information, review USAJOBS Individuals with Disabilities resources.
To verify your eligibility, you must provide appropriate medical documentation, i.e., a letter signed by a licensed medical professional or licensed vocational rehabilitation specialist, certifying your documented disability and eligibility under Schedule A.
For more information, review USAJOBS Individuals with Disabilities resources.
To verify your eligibility, you must provide appropriate medical documentation, i.e., a letter signed by a licensed medical professional or licensed vocational rehabilitation specialist, certifying your documented disability and eligibility under Schedule A.
7.
Are you currently employed as a civilian employee in the competitive service in a federal agency other than the Department of Veterans Affairs?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect:
- career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND,
- your status is in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1)
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the appropriate answer to each of the following questions based on your current level of education and/or experience that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this position. When answering the questionnaire, remember that your experience and education are subject to verification by investigation. You may be asked to provide specific examples or documentation of experience or education as proof to support your answers, or you may be required to verify a response by a practical demonstration of your claimed ability to perform a task.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Do you have the ability to perform the duties of the High Voltage Electrician without more than normal supervision?
Related experience includes: experience with high voltage electric power-generating and distribution equipment such as generators, transformers, feeders, substations, switches, circuit breakers, recording instruments, control systems and Photo Voltaic systems; replacing and adjusting mechanical contacts; and using feeler gages, dressing tools, and timing devices to program electronic relays, timers, and trips using microprocessor programming equipment. Your experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit.
Related experience includes: experience with high voltage electric power-generating and distribution equipment such as generators, transformers, feeders, substations, switches, circuit breakers, recording instruments, control systems and Photo Voltaic systems; replacing and adjusting mechanical contacts; and using feeler gages, dressing tools, and timing devices to program electronic relays, timers, and trips using microprocessor programming equipment. Your experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Knowledge of commonly used high voltage electric power- generating and distribution equipment such as generators, transformers, switches, circuit breakers, and PV systems.
3.
Knowledge of the National Electric Safety Code and of types and sizes of wires/cables, conduits, transformers, and other electrical equipment and circuit elements.
4.
Knowledge of power-generating building, feeders, substations, transformers, and distribution system, in order to diagnose problems in the electrical system.
5.
Replace and adjust mechanical contacts and tripping and time-delay intervals of circuit breakers and relays.
6.
Repair switch gear, installing, and hooking up transformers, locating defects in cables, or selecting materials to make installations or repairs.
7.
Extensive knowledge of mechanical and electronic control systems and other circuit elements found in the substations and power-generating building.
8.
Program and monitor electronic control equipment and operate computerized diagnostic and digital test equipment as part of high voltage electrical system maintenance and troubleshooting duties.
9.
Install, modify, connect, inspect, troubleshoot, and repair electrical distribution lines serving the medical center.
10.
Read and understand circuit diagrams of interconnects such as the generators, buses, switches, and circuit breakers.
11.
Read and understand circuit diagrams of interconnects such as the generators, buses, switches, and circuit breakers.
12.
Clean, adjust, and repair electrical equipment such as air and oil circuit breakers and remote control supervisory and telemetering equipment.
13.
Visually check the work of contractors for compliance with contract specifications on new construction, and remodels.
14.
Able to use feeler gages, dressing tools, and timing devices or to program electronic relays, timers, and trips using microprocessor programming equipment.
15.
Able to use feeler gages, dressing tools, and timing devices or to program electronic relays, timers, and trips using microprocessor programming equipment.
16.
Able to use feeler gages, dressing tools, and timing devices or to program electronic relays, timers, and trips using microprocessor programming equipment.
17.
Plan and carry through the troubleshooting and repair of high voltage generating, controlling, and distribution systems.
18.
Install, modify, test, repair, troubleshoot, and maintain transformers, converters, regulators, cables, switches, circuit breakers, mechanical and electronic recording instruments.
19.
Use test equipment such as: oscillators, meggers, phase sticks, phase rotation meters, digital test equipment, and cable locating and fault-finding equipment.
20.
Make emergency cutouts and substitutions of power lines and equipment, sometimes working on distribution systems when they are energized.