Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamion Lower Colorado Dams Office, Davis Dam Field Division Summary You will serve as a
ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
with Bureau of Reclamion. Learn more about this agency Summary You will serve as a
ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
with Bureau of Reclamion. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Davis Dam, AZ No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $57,080 - $74,202 per year Pay scale & grade GS 8 Promotion potential 11 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0802 Engineering Technical Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
CBVK-26-13064911-IMP-NAW
Control number 885515000 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency This is a Merit Promotion announcement for current and former career and career conditional Bureau of Reclamion employees, Career Transition eligibles (CTAP & ICTAP) and those who are eligible under the hiring phs listed above. Refer to Required Documents section for more informion. Videos Duties Help The Engineering Technician serves as the primary source for computer-aided design (CAD) for the LowerColorado Dams Office, Davis Dam Division, and is responsible for reviewing designs for compliance withcurrent industry practices and ensures designs fit field conditions.
Duties include:
Develops, prepares, and/or reviews plans, specificions, and cost estimes for construction and/orproposed/ongoing projects. Reviews designs for compliance with current industry practices and ensures designs fit fieldconditions; suggests modificions when issues are identified. Utilizes automed engineering drafting and design systems and applicions. Uses a variety of contracting processes to provide engineering oversight for construction, architecture,or engineering contracts. Valides da used for and loaded into electronic/automed design and records managementapplicions. Provides technical oversight in ensuring da integrity. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional. Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participion required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more, https://www.e-verify.gov/ . Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. All applicants must submit their most recent performance appraisal OR a stement why it is not available A firm understanding and ability to utilize AutoCAD or similar software is strongly desired for this position. Qualificions All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement - 10/02/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candides must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your applicion to be used to valide your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience th you granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documention for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience . For periods of time th reflect military service, the DD-214 or Stement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service des reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must ste either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.
Minimum Qualificion Requirements:
To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualificions: To qualify the GS-08 , your resume must reflect one year of full time experience equivalent to the GS-07 level: 1) creing packages and drawing sets utilizing Computer Aided Design (CAD) software with accuracy and tention to detail; 2) surveying and construction cost estiming of merials AND 3) inspecting contractors work. Must meet all.
Volunteer Experience:
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion This position does not allow substituting educion for experience. Additional informion Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and based solely on your ability to sisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work the higher grade level, and recommendion by the position's supervisor. All DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior . The duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. Full time telework is not available. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g. resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the applicion questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessment(s) required for this position. To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. Your resume must not exceed 2 pages. Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section used to determine your qualificions/eligibility and for ring purposes. In the event you submit more than one resume, only the lest submission reviewed. You assessed in the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Contracting/Procurement Cost Estimion and Analysis Design Technical Competence To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessment(s), including a resume review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed above th are required to successfully perform the job. All qualified non-competitive applicants and the best-qualified Merit Promotion applicants referred to the hiring manager for considerion.
DUE WEIGHT
You must submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion or your score may be lowered. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inapproprie language or informion in their applicion package ineligible for further considerion for this position. Current or former displaced Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified, score least 85 (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including any selective placement factors; educion, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) -10/02/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des in month-year form (include month/day/year form if needed for 52 weeks of experience), and indice hours worked per week (or full-time) . Your resume must clearly show how long you have held each grade/rank. Resumes must not exceed 2 single-sided pages and resumes longer than 2 pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements.
Resume Builder:
https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) .
Performance Appraisals and Awards :
All applicants must submit their most recent performance appraisal showing the official ring of record and signed by a supervisor. If the performance appraisal is not ded within the last 18 months OR no performance appraisal is available, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available (including if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level).
Eligibility Documention :
Current and former Federal employees must submit lest SF-50 (i.e. Promotion, Separion, Within Grade Increase (WGI)) showing tenure 1 or 2 in block 24, grade, and if applicable, an additional SF-50 showing the highest grade or promotion potential held. Time in grade determined by reviewing your resume and required SF-50s. If your SF-50 showing highest permanent grade held has an effective de within the past year, your resume must clearly show th you held th grade for one year. Do not submit award SF-50s. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center - Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 10/02/2026- unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement to receive considerion.
Note:
You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13064911 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus, https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Agency contact informion Nicole Wilson Phone 000-000-0000 nicole_wilson@ios.doi.gov Address Lower Colorado Basin Bureau of Reclamion PO Box 60400 Boulder City, NV 89006 US Next steps Please refer to your USAJOBS account for applicion stus; the Human Resources Office cannot respond to individual stus inquiries. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) -10/02/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des in month-year form (include month/day/year form if needed for 52 weeks of experience), and indice hours worked per week (or full-time) . Your resume must clearly show how long you have held each grade/rank. Resumes must not exceed 2 single-sided pages and resumes longer than 2 pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements.
Resume Builder:
https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) .
Performance Appraisals and Awards :
All applicants must submit their most recent performance appraisal showing the official ring of record and signed by a supervisor. If the performance appraisal is not ded within the last 18 months OR no performance appraisal is available, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available (including if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level).
Eligibility Documention :
Current and former Federal employees must submit lest SF-50 (i.e. Promotion, Separion, Within Grade Increase (WGI)) showing tenure 1 or 2 in block 24, grade, and if applicable, an additional SF-50 showing the highest grade or promotion potential held. Time in grade determined by reviewing your resume and required SF-50s. If your SF-50 showing highest permanent grade held has an effective de within the past year, your resume must clearly show th you held th grade for one year. Do not submit award SF-50s. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center - Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 10/02/2026- unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement to receive considerion.
Note:
You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13064911 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus, https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Nicole Wilson Phone 000-000-0000 nicole_wilson@ios.doi.gov Address Lower Colorado Basin Bureau of Reclamion PO Box 60400 Boulder City, NV 89006 US Next steps Please refer to your USAJOBS account for applicion stus; the Human Resources Office cannot respond to individual stus inquiries. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Davis Dam, AZ No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $57,080 - $74,202 per year Pay scale & grade GS 8 Promotion potential 11 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number