This position is part of the WAPA-UGP-Upper Great Plains. As a Power System Dispatcher (Trainer), you will nave primary responsibility for developing, conducting, maintaining, coordinating, and administering Energy Management Systems (EMS) training courses, and qualification programs for the US Department of Energy (DOE), Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Power Operations Division. THIS IS NOT A REMOTE POSITION. YOU MUST REPORT TO THE WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA OFFICE.
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year (52 weeks) if specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility at the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. The experience need not have been in the Federal service. To qualify for the AD-05/GS-13: Applicants must have one year (52 weeks) of experience at the AD-04/GS-12 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service. This experience includes all the following: Applying EMS functionalities and practical applications in a control center environment. Managing and maintaining simulation systems such as troubleshooting, system upgrades, and ensuring operational readiness. Designing, developing, and delivering technical training programs in operational readiness and scenarios. "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. 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. Time-in-Grade: Current career or career-conditional GS employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional GS employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current career or career-conditional federal employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
As a Power System Dispatcher (Trainer), some of your duties will include, but are not limited to: Responsible for providing administration, maintenance, and ongoing technical support of the EMS simulator used as the primary means of training and development for operations personnel. Responsible for developing System Operator training using the EMS simulator and related tools to replicate, execute, train with, and evaluate trainee performance for scenarios using historical power system data. Develop, replicate, demonstrate, and simulate past or possible future power system events as a learning tool for System Operations. Responsible for providing initial and continuing training to Power System Dispatchers and trainees. Serves as mentor and coach to trainees for duration of the trainee's program. Develops, delivers, and submits Individual Learning Activities (ILA) that meet the NERC Continuing Education Hour (CEH) criteria. Ensures applicable WAPA region maintains NERC Continuing Education Program Approved Provider status.