Electronics Engineer Department of Energy Western Area Power Administrion Desert Southwest Region, Protection & Communicion Maintenance, GS5300 Summary This position is part of the WAPA-DSW-Desert Southwest. As an Electronics Engineer, you responsible for provide engineering expertise for the development and coordinion of a comprehensive program for upgrading and opering communicions systems, electronic supervisory control and da acquisitions systems (SCADA), operion support system, telemetering equipment, da distribution systems and remote telemetry units (RTU) for the Region. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is part of the WAPA-DSW-Desert Southwest. As an Electronics Engineer, you responsible for provide engineering expertise for the development and coordinion of a comprehensive program for upgrading and opering communicions systems, electronic supervisory control and da acquisitions systems (SCADA), operion support system, telemetering equipment, da distribution systems and remote telemetry units (RTU) for the Region. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: Phoenix, AZ No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $117,247

• $157,607 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12
• 13 Promotion potential 13 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0855 Electronics Engineering Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Other 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 Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-WJ-01408-13078133-DE Control number 886737700 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Military spouses Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty. Clarificion from the agency U.S. Citizens, Nionals, or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Duties Help As an Electronics Engineer, you will: Applies or adapts automed processes th modify real-time control systems and automed computing systems to solve inherent problems or enhance performance of existing systems. Establishes system design technical requirements, defines engineering approaches to be used in the system design as well as constraints and standards to be applied during the design process. Develops and maintains guidelines, requirements, instructions and procedures reling to the power communicions system. Makes analysis of equipment failures and system malfunctions and recommends and/or inities adjustments, repair, replacement, or other approprie action to prevent recurrence. Provides communicions and system control engineering assistance and advice to the field offices. Monitors maintenance programs to assure necessary actions are implemented on a consistent basis throughout the Region. Provides technical advice and guidance in the resolution of engineering problems arising in ongoing automed systems. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional. This employer participes in the e-Verify program. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigion. May be required to successfully complete a probionary/trial period. Employees serving on a probionary or trial period may be termined any time during the probionary or trial period for performance, conduct, or business-reled reasons in the interest of Federal service. In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to the four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answers to these questions are not scored or red. Your answers reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection considerion. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualificions. Security clearance and associed requirements

• Modere Risk.

Qualificions Qualificion requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualificion Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualificion standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website loced : https://www.opm.gov/policy .

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

: Applicants must meet the Individual Occupional Requirement (IOR) for the 0800 Series as described below :

A.

Degree:

Engineering:

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with 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) stics, dynamics; (b) strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics

• OR-B.

Combinion of Educion and Experience:

College-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following: Professional Registrion or Licensure

• Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
• OR•Written Test•Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examinion or any other written test required for professional registrion by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico•OR•Specified Academic Courses•Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th 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. ( Reled Curriculum

• Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.

g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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 reled curricula are not all-inclusive.) AND In addition to meeting the Individual Occupional Requirements for the 0800 Series, applicants must meet the specialized experience below.

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 th 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-12: SI have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience the GS-05

• 11 grade level or equivalent pay band.

This experience MUST include all the following: Providing technical assistance in these technologies: Fiber optics; Radio systems (VHF, UHF, spread spectrum, microwave); Da network technologies such as MPLS or SONET, TDM, IP or VOIP. To qualify for the GS-13: I have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience the GS-12 grade level or equivalent pay band. This experience MUST include all the following: Using communicions systems th support transmission system facilities for computer systems such as Supervisory Control and Da Acquisition (SCADA) or Energy Management System (EMS), da and voice communicion infrastructures and in these technologies: Fiber optics; Radio systems (VHF, UHF, spread spectrum, microwave); Da network technologies such as MPLS or SONET, TDM, IP or VOIP. "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizions. 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. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualificions. "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizions. 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.

Working Conditions:

The work is normally performed in an office setting. Field work to industrial areas may involve modere risks or discomfort. Work may occasionally be performed substion/ communicion sites involving hazards requiring special safety precautions around energized circuits and equipment. The use of personal protective equipment and observance of safety precautions is required.

Physical Effort:

The work is primarily sedentary. Field work may take place indoors or outdoors and involve longperiods of standing, bending, and stretching to observe and study work operions in an industrial workarea. Educion 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 . Foreign educion must be reviewed by an organizion recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For special instructions pertaining to foreign educion and a list of organizions th can evalue foreign educion, see the Department of Educion website . DO NOT email or mail in any of your applicion documents. Documents will not be accepted outside of the online applicion system. 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. Additional informion This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional similar vacancies across DOE. For general informion on government-wide Telework polices : www.telework.gov . Applicants may request Reasonable Accommodion (RA) when applying or competing for a job due to a medical condition or to exercise religious beliefs. If you need reasonable accommodion in the applicion or selection process, please contact the Agency Contact listed on this vacancy announcement. If selection is made a lower grade, promotion up to the full performance level may be made without further competition. However, promotion(s) will depend on the performance of the incumbent and are not guaranteed. The selectee for this position may be eligible to receive a recruitment or relocion incentive. You will need to sign an employment agreement to be eligible for this incentive. Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) costs are not authorized. This position may be eligible for creditable service towards annual leave. Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. DOE may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-reled non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de and is not guaranteed. Salary negotiion may be available for those candides who are new to Federal service.

Reasonable Accommodion Requests:

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here . 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 . 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. Once the applicion process is complete, the first two pages of your resume and supporting documention used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions.

Minimum Qualificions:

Once the applicion process is complete, the Human Resources Office will review the first two pages of your resume and supporting documention to determine whether you meet the minimum job qualificions.

USAHire:

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 an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

Cegory Ring Procedure:

You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Once the applicion process is complete, your resume, supporting documention, and questionnaire/assessment responses used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions. If you are minimally qualified for this job, your responses to the USA Hire ring assessment(s) evalued, and you placed into one of three predefined quality cegories. These cegories are Best Qualified, Well Qualified, and Qualified.

Applicion of Veterans' Preference:

If you are a preference eligible candide, you listed the top of whichever quality cegory your ring places you in. Preference eligibles with a compensable service-connected disability of 10 percent or more are placed the top of the highest cegory for all positions except scientific or professional the GS-9 grade level or above (or equivalent).

Simultaneous Listing:

Candides may be referred simultaneously on multiple certifices for which they are interested, eligible, and within reach. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses you provided in your online questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documention before the vacancy closes, you may be red 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Attention to

Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Teamwork Career Transition Assistance Programs:

To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet the eligibility criteria; and 2) be red "well-qualified". You must meet all qualificions and eligibility requirements by the closing de (10/13/2026) of this announcement. To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13078133 . 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 . 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 To apply for this position, you MUST provide a complete applicion package which includes: Your two (2) page RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Transcripts, if specific educional requirements are indiced in this job announcement .Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable. It is your responsibility to provide adeque proof th you meet the educional requirements.

If applicable:

Veterans' Preference documention, if applicabl e, DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members

• certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.

For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW informion. Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) For more informion see the OPM Guide to Career Transition . Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. 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 this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section. A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the announcement closing de to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: You must have a login.gov account to sign into

USAJOBS:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/ . To begin the applicion process in USAJOBS, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all required and supporting documention. You must click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 pm (ET) on the announcement closing de. You may upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period by returning to your USAJOBS account, select

Upde Applicion:

https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To verify the stus of your applicion, during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account; applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each applicion stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Agency contact informion PMA Careers PMACareers@wapa.gov Address WAPA-DSW-Desert Southwest 12155 W. Alameda Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80228 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings. You contacted directly if an interview is required. 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 To apply for this position, you MUST provide a complete applicion package which includes: Your two (2) page RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Transcripts, if specific educional requirements are indiced in this job announcement .Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable. It is your responsibility to provide adeque proof th you meet the educional requirements.

If applicable:

Veterans' Preference documention, if applicabl e, DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members

• certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.

For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW informion. Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) For more informion see the OPM Guide to Career Transition . Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. 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 this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section. A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the announcement closing de to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: You must have a login.gov account to sign into

USAJOBS:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/ . To begin the applicion process in USAJOBS, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all required and supporting documention. You must click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 pm (ET) on the announcement closing de. You may upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period by returning to your USAJOBS account, select

Upde Applicion:

https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To verify the stus of your applicion, during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account; applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each applicion stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion PMA Careers PMACareers@wapa.gov Address WAPA-DSW-Desert Southwest 12155 W. Alameda Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80228 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings. You contacted directly if an interview is required. 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 2 vacancies in the following locion: Phoenix, AZ No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $117,247

• $157,607 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12
• 13 Promotion potential 13 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

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 Other 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 26-WJ-01408-13078133-DE Control number 886737700