Total 42 job vacancies by Bonneville Power Administration

As a Management & Program Analyst, you will:

• Perform a full range of project management functions for assigned or potential projects and studies and analyzes.
• Manage and/or measure program objectives, and performance in key performance indicators.
• Analyze and recommend methods for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of programs and procedures through process modification and application of evolving technology.
• Manage the pursuit of continuous process improvement in all facets for NSL.
• Participate in or conduct reviews of activities as necessary to ensure effective implementation of tools.
• Conduct root cause analysis for monthly metrics, and identify drivers to these results to improve performance in these key performance indicators.
• Solicit support from stakeholders, performance managers and various leaders for various NSL initiatives.
• Plan, organize, and conduct management surveys, studies, benchmarking, and special purpose projects.

As a Management & Program Analyst, you will:

• Perform a full range of project management functions for assigned or potential projects and studies and analyzes.
• Manage and/or measure program objectives, and performance in key performance indicators.
• Analyze and recommend methods for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of programs and procedures through process modification and application of evolving technology.
• Manage the pursuit of continuous process improvement in all facets for NSL.
• Participate in or conduct reviews of activities as necessary to ensure effective implementation of tools.
• Conduct root cause analysis for monthly metrics, and identify drivers to these results to improve performance in these key performance indicators.
• Solicit support from stakeholders, performance managers and various leaders for various NSL initiatives.
• Plan, organize, and conduct management surveys, studies, benchmarking, and special purpose projects.

As a Realty Specialist, you will:

• Provides real estate services to acquire, manage, and dispose of real property rights and assets for both maintenance and construction of the BPA Transmission System and the Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Devises innovative approaches to negotiate compensation or other terms of contracts, leases, and agreements for complex and unique properties, right-of-way or relocation issues, or environmental concerns
• Plans, develops, implements, interprets policy for, and administers property management and disposal for a wide range of routine and complex real property cases.
• Provides extensive courthouse real estate research including ownership, land rights, property descriptions, zoning, land use planning, etc.
• When assigned, serves as the primary Real Property Services support for BPA's Tribal Affairs and BPA's Wireless Program.

As a Realty Specialist, you will:

• Provides real estate services to acquire, manage, and dispose of real property rights and assets for both maintenance and construction of the BPA Transmission System and the Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Devises innovative approaches to negotiate compensation or other terms of contracts, leases, and agreements for complex and unique properties, right-of-way or relocation issues, or environmental concerns
• Plans, develops, implements, interprets policy for, and administers property management and disposal for a wide range of routine and complex real property cases.
• Provides extensive courthouse real estate research including ownership, land rights, property descriptions, zoning, land use planning, etc.
• When assigned, serves as the primary Real Property Services support for BPA's Tribal Affairs and BPA's Wireless Program.

As an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/OS), you will:

• Evaluate the impact of technological change and conceive of solutions to highly complex technical issues and/or rapidly evolving technology.
• Provide expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other technical specialists on critical IT issues.
• Perform a variety of work involving planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems.
• Plan and conduct simulations to determine capacity requirements and recommend hardware/software replacements or upgrades to meet current and future requirements.
• Develop and implement migration strategies and plan for continuity of operations during the deployment of new server technology.
• Perform a variety of work involving planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization's IT architecture and business needs.
• Lead a major operating systems project, e.g., installation of new operating environments or implementation of new operating systems patches, upgrades, and releases.
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analytical processes to the planning, design and implementation of new and improved information systems.

As an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/OS), you will:

• Evaluate the impact of technological change and conceive of solutions to highly complex technical issues and/or rapidly evolving technology.
• Provide expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other technical specialists on critical IT issues.
• Perform a variety of work involving planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems.
• Plan and conduct simulations to determine capacity requirements and recommend hardware/software replacements or upgrades to meet current and future requirements.
• Develop and implement migration strategies and plan for continuity of operations during the deployment of new server technology.
• Perform a variety of work involving planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization's IT architecture and business needs.
• Lead a major operating systems project, e.g., installation of new operating environments or implementation of new operating systems patches, upgrades, and releases.
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analytical processes to the planning, design and implementation of new and improved information systems.

**Continued from "Summary" section: Access Administration support is performed using a combination of Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), PowerShell scripts and Windows Workflow management tools. Access administration follows the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model where accounts are placed into security groups that follow best practices for least privilege access. The System Administrator performs a variety of systems administration tasks (testing, configuring, migrating, upgrading, patching, enhancing, documenting, validating security compliance, etc.) supporting the Infrastructure Services team.

As an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/OS), you will:

• Perform a variety of work involving planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems [Systems Administration (SYSADMIN)].
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analysis of processes for design and planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization's IT architecture and business needs [Operating Systems (OS)].
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analytical processes to the planning, design and implementation of new and improved information systems to meet the business requirements of customer organizations [Systems Analysis (SYSANALYSIS)].

**Continued from "Summary" section: Access Administration support is performed using a combination of Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), PowerShell scripts and Windows Workflow management tools. Access administration follows the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model where accounts are placed into security groups that follow best practices for least privilege access. The System Administrator performs a variety of systems administration tasks (testing, configuring, migrating, upgrading, patching, enhancing, documenting, validating security compliance, etc.) supporting the Infrastructure Services team.

As an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/OS), you will:

• Perform a variety of work involving planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems [Systems Administration (SYSADMIN)].
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analysis of processes for design and planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization's IT architecture and business needs [Operating Systems (OS)].
• Perform a variety of work involving applying analytical processes to the planning, design and implementation of new and improved information systems to meet the business requirements of customer organizations [Systems Analysis (SYSANALYSIS)].

As a Supervisory Security Specialist, you will:

• Serve as the Manager of the Personnel and Information Security organization and a member of the Security and Continuity of Operations management team.
• Exercise delegated managerial authority to set a series of annual and longer-range work plans.
• Make major recommendations and decisions related to changes in the structure of the organization managed.
• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work.
• Develop performance standards and evaluate the work performance of subordinates.
• Interview candidates for positions and make selections, promotions, and reassignments to such positions.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees and provide or arrange for needed development and training.
• Represent the Personnel and Information Security organization in working directly with executive-level personnel, managers and staff in BPA, DOE HQ, and other Federal agencies.

As a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, you will:

• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluates the work performance of subordinates.
• Provides and ensures fair and equitable treatment for all employees in personnel policies and practices.
• Justifies, defends, or negotiates in representing the organization in obtaining or committing resources, and in gaining compliance with established policies, regulations, or contracts.
• Evaluates and makes technical recommendations concerning overall Operational Technology/industrial control systems.

As a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, you will:

• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluates the work performance of subordinates.
• Provides and ensures fair and equitable treatment for all employees in personnel policies and practices.
• Justifies, defends, or negotiates in representing the organization in obtaining or committing resources, and in gaining compliance with established policies, regulations, or contracts.
• Evaluates and makes technical recommendations concerning overall Operational Technology/industrial control systems.

As a Operations Research Analyst, you will serve as the Load, Obligation, and Resource Analyzer (LORA) Power Systems Lead and related business processes authority and advisor for Power Generation Planning with full technical authority and responsibility for coordinating all aspects and activities related to the development, enhancement, testing, training, maintenance, issue resolution, and quality control of LORA. The lead is responsible for functional aspects of the LORA system as well as the LORA data model and definitions.

As an Electrical Engineer, you will:

• Independently performs fault calculations and WECC-mandated relay settings reviews both within BPA and to review and coordinate those calculations and settings with adjoining utilities.
• Completes and reviews AGC and interchange and customer revenue meter settings for new capital construction projects and customer interconnection projects and maintenance projects.
• Independently completes and reviews relay settings on schedule for new capital construction projects and existing maintenance applications including line relay settings, transformer relay settings, bank differential relay settings, bus differential settings, capacitor and reactor relay settings, and settings for other protective relay equipment.
• Coordinates with customers, state and federal agencies, the general public etc. outside of BPA as necessary to accomplish relay coordination.
• Technical specialist in the development or collaboration in the formulation of new SPC standards, application guides, and training material.
• Responds to emergency call-outs to investigate equipment malfunction or power system problems on complex electrical systems.
• Works with customers, state and federal agencies, the general public, etc., outside of BPA as necessary to accomplish relay coordination.
• Communicates complex technical issues orally and in writing to ensure that decisions reflect technical recommendations and support SPC needs.
• Coordinates with Field Services, Project Management, Protection, RAS and Data Systems Engineering Design, Operations, Planning, and Construction.

As an Operations Research Analyst, you will:

• Serve as a senior operations research analyst, BPA-wide technical expert, and senior advisor to BPA executives on BPA's long range financial and rates plan.
• Serve as the lead of a team of analysts and acts as principle technical expert responsible for leading, planning, and preparing the long range financial and rates forecast for the Power and Transmission business lines ensuring technical appropriateness, soundness, and accurate interpretation of results.
• Conduct analysis and provides recommendations by applying expert knowledge of the electric utility industry and financial forecasting to include mathematics, statistical analysis, computer modeling, decision theory, mathematical programming, regression analysis, and economic analysis.
• Serve as the senior operations research analyst, BPA-wide technical expert, and senior advisor to BPA executives on the application of BPA's Treasury Payment Probability standard and development of Power and Transmission financial risk analysis and mitigation applied in Power and Transmission rates.
• Lead a team of analysts, oversees and prepares the financial risk analysis for the Treasury Payment Probability financial model, including improvements and adaptations, to produce financial risk analysis for Power and Transmission consistent with BPA statute, policy, past practice and in alignment with BPA's 97.5% strategic plan goal.
• Lead a team of analysts and oversees the Power and Transmission financial Risk Analysis Study in Power and Transmission rates.

As a Management Associate I, you will:

• Participate with the manager and other managers within the organization in planning, direction, and evaluation activities.
• Participate in external and internal meetings, working groups, and task forces.
• Assist the manager through the development and preparation of appropriate information, reports, and correspondence.
• Serve as a liaison between the organization and the human resources representative to obtain a variety of services related to staffing and human resources management.
• Exercise exclusive control over the manager's calendar, with complete authority for commitments of time.
• Coordinate and oversee a record management system, associated protocols, and tracking tools.