Power Plant Electrician Trainee III/IV

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

About the Position: This position is located in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Oahe Project, Pierre, SD. The Oahe Project is a multi-purpose project providing flood control, recreation, hydropower, water supply, irrigation and wildlife and fisheries benefits to the nation.

• Installs, modifies, tests, troubleshoots, repairs and maintains a wide variety of electrical and electronic equipment common to hydroelectric power plants, switchyards and associated water control structures.
• Incumbent will be repairing and maintaining the following equipment:
• High voltage switchyard equipment such as breakers, transformers, manually and motor operated disconnect switches, lightning arresters, instrument transformers and potential devices and cable systems.
• Protective relaying systems for high voltage transmission lines, feeder circuits, generators, transformers, switchyard busses, and cable systems.
• Hardwired and digital computer based automatic supervisory control, data acquisition and alarm and event recording systems, including automatic generation, voltage control, telemetering, and communication systems.
• Instrumentation systems such as indicating meters and recording systems for temperature, liquid levels, and flows, gate positions, watts, vars, voltage, amperes, frequency and pressures.
• High/Low and medium voltage switchgear, and power distribution centers and cable systems including project utilities such as power distribution lines, feeders and transformers.