Supervisory Electronics Engineer
What you'd do
Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Supervisory Electronics Engineer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. Duty Location: Sacramento, California This is not a remote position.
Major duties
The primary duties of this position are: Provides engineering solutions, resolves critical problems, and develops, tests, and implements newly engineered technologies and solutions. Determines technical approach and identifies equipment and integration methods used to maintain and enhance hydro and hydropower operational efficiencies. Defines and validates new hydro and hydropower operations technology requirements through consultation with Regional, federal, and state program officials. Identifies and evaluates engineering alternatives and system design approaches, and develops technical specifications and project proposals. Plans, coordinates, and implements system acceptance and functional testing. Supervises approximately eight technical employees engaged in the work of the organization. Plans work to be accomplished, sets and adjusts priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work. Represents the office, the Region, and Reclamation on electronics engineering and ICS-related activities at meetings, conferences, briefings, and other gatherings.
What you need to qualify
Basic Education Requirement: To be eligible for consideration, you must first meet the Basic Education Requirement for this position. A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at 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) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. or B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT) , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that 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. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at 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 related curricula are not all-inclusive.) In order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that you meet the education and/or specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume. To qualify at the GS-13 level, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-12 level in federal service having demonstrated experience managing the full systems lifecycle of complex industrial control systems (ICS) and enterprise information technology systems that support real-time, mission-critical water resource and hydroelectric power operations; experience leading requirements development, system design, implementation, operations, maintenance, modernization, and system upgrades to ensure system reliability, cybersecurity, and operational effectiveness; providing technical and programmatic leadership by supervising and developing a multidisciplinary technical workforce, assigning and evaluating work, and providing technical and administrative direction to ensure alignment with organizational goals and operational requirements; experience ensuring the secure and reliable operation of ICS and IT environments by implementing information security and cybersecurity controls that protect data integrity, ensure system availability, and support secure data exchange among internal organizations and external federal, state, and local partners in compliance with federal laws, regulations, and bureau-level policies. These examples are not all-inclusive. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 07/11/2026.
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