For more information, please follow this link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/630425000

Salary- $47,875 – $76,130 per year

As a Public Utilities Specialist (Recent Graduate), you will:

  • Serve as a developmental scheduler responsible for participating in establishing, implementing, and accounting for energy schedules and necessary transmission arrangements with utilities, other customers, and transmission providers.
  • Keep current on technical and complex material required for the job.
  • Participate in verifying schedules cover all contractual obligations and fit within contractual limitations.
  • Participate in the reconciliation of issues applying understanding of long and short-term contracts, e-Tags, schedules, and scheduling systems.
  • Schedule power utilizing transmission in cost effective manner applying understanding of transmission products and knowledge of applications and internal processes.
  • Stay abreast of new or seasonal contracts and business initiatives, proactively completing all essential training and preparation for implementation.
  • Assist in researching accurate scheduling data for billing.
  • Work with Traders, AE’s, Contract staff, Scheduling, ATF, Billing, Customers and Transmission Providers as assigned.

Conditions of Employment

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
  • This employer participates 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 investigation.
  • A 1-year trial period is required.
  • Must be in good academic standing.
  • A Pathways Recent Graduate Participant Agreement is required.
  • The incumbent is required to have a working knowledge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Standards of Conduct (SOC) to ensure fair competition in the open access transmission market though compliance with its basic principles. The incumbent of this position does not buy power and is identified by BPA as a ‘Yellow’, or, ‘Undesignated’ Power Merchant Function employee.
  • The incumbent is required to immediately report violations of the FERC SOC to the Chief Compliance Officer. In addition, the incumbent is required to complete BPA’s mandatory SOC training.

Qualifications

To be eligible for the Recent Graduate program you must be a:

  • Recent graduate who has completed, within the previous two years, a qualifying associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution. -OR-
  • Student who within nine months of the closing date of this announcement will meet the education requirements and will graduate with a qualifying associates, bachelors, masters, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution. A student may not be appointed to a position until they have graduated. -OR-
  • Preference eligible veteran who was precluded from applying due to their military service obligation begin their two-year eligibility period upon release or discharge from active duty. Eligibility for these veterans cannot exceed six years after degree or certificate completion.

CONVERSION REQUIREMENTS: Pathways Recent Graduates are converted to a term or permanent position upon program completion. This is not automatic nor guaranteed. Conversion is at the discretion of the hiring manager and employing office.

To be eligible for conversion to permanent or term position, a Recent Graduate must:

  1. Be a U.S. citizen;
  2. Successful completion of 1 year of continuous service;
  3. Complete all training and development requirements within the 1-year appointment period;
  4. Demonstrate successful job performance;
  5. Meet the OPM qualification standards for the position to which converted;
  6. Receive a recommendation for conversion from the first-level supervisor; and
  7. Meet agency-specific requirements, as specified in the Participant Agreement.
  • A Recent Graduate may be converted to the highest General Schedule (GS) grade level qualified for at time of conversion.
  • Relocation (PCS) is not authorized for this vacancy; however, relocation/recruitment incentive may be paid in accordance with federal regulations and in consideration of budget availability for a highly qualified candidate; determined upon selection.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

GS-07:

A qualified candidate’s online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-05) in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Experience applying analytical methods to business practices, product markets, evaluation, and market research.

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows:

GS-09:

A qualified candidate’s online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-07) in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Experience applying business or industry knowledge to the identification, consideration, and resolution of issues or problems of a procedural or factual nature to support planning, evaluation, or research functions.

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows:

  • Master’s or equivalent graduate degree; or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or a LL.B. or J.D. if related; your education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. -OR-
  • Combination of education and experience as described above. Less than one year of specialized experience may be combined with graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level (i.e., credit hours beyond the first year of full-time study may be credited). One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours the graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. If the graduate school’s definition of one year of graduate study is not available, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) is used. When crediting education that requires specific course work the number of hours of related courses required, as a proportion of the total education, is prorated.