Public Utilities Specialist

You will serve as a Public Utilities Specialist with Bureau of Reclamation. Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Public Utilities Specialist. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. Duty Location: Scramento, CA Redding, CA

Major duties
Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Prepare, estimate, analyze annual Project Use Energy Coordinates and provides technical expertise to activities under agreements with Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and California Department of Water Resources, water districts, and public utilities and agencies. Ensure consistency and compliance of repayment, budget, financial records, and power customer funding. Upon request, provides studies, analysis, and technical responses to Central Valley Project (CVP) preference power customers, CVP water contractors, WAPA, and other agencies. Prepare and analyze power and energy forecasts. Provide and analyze benchmarking of CVP power performance against electric utility industry. Facilitate and evaluate Federal Energy Regulatiory Commission (FERC) proposals that may impact Reclamation facilities.

Qualifications
Qualifications: One year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal government which must include: 1) uses data to create the issuance of periodic power forecasts (generation or load); 2) provides analysis of regional power operations and power supply and project requirements for the basis of agreements or contractual actions related to energy exchanges or water transfers involving project power and/or energy; 3) prepares various power agreements or contracts involving the use of power for project purposes; 4) provides or presents analyses or subject matter expertise involving power operations pertaining to a Power Marketing Administration or preference power contractors. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement – 09/28/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Volunteer Experience: 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.

How to apply
Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documentation as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 09/28/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement to receive consideration. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities that you selected and provided the appropriate supporting documentation. The application process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. To PREVIEW the application questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13051925 Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their application, associated documents and applicable personal information shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupational series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic location(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive consideration. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status, visit https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/application/status.