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Must apply on USAJOBS at: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/814264100

About the Position: Responsible for planning, developing, and executing a reliability compliance program.

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Duties

• Serves as the Reliability Compliance Engineer (RCE) for North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards.
• Performs engineering work and coordinates any proposed modification of design to existing equipment and systems.
• Updates CAD drawings to reflect changed conditions of existing equipment and analysis of existing conditions.
• Works with technical Subject Matter Experts both within and external to the organization to develop mitigation plans to resolve operational deficiencies.
• Conceives and directs project test programs, develops test procedures to determine operating characteristics, collects operating data, and analyzes results to determine adequacy and/or reason for equipment malfunctions.
• Plans, develops, and implements the Project's Reliability Compliance Program.
• Interprets and implements Federal policy and regulations in managing the Reliability Compliance Program.
• Represents the project at meetings and conferences concerning reliability compliance and related technical matters.
• Reviews engineering and design work to determine potential effects on Reliability Compliance Program.

Requirements Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License.
• Must have or be able obtain and maintain A+ Level 1 computer certification within 12 months.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for Electrical or Mechanical Engineer:

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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, bo