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The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has been powering the Pacific Northwest for over 70 years. Today BPA is regarded as a world leader, operating one of the nation's largest high voltage transmission systems with more than 15,000 miles of line that provides half the electricity used in the Northwest. In addition to transmission, BPA helps fund and manage the largest fish and wildlife program in the world; invests in new renewable generating resources for the Northwest such as wind and geothermal projects; and is a leading partner in promoting energy conservation and efficiency programs.



Not only is BPA recognized as a world leader in transmission but BPA has received numerous awards including Oregon State's "Families in Good Company". How did we become a world leader? The answer is simple -- our people. And the best part of all, our employees get to work, live, and play in the great Pacific Northwest! You can learn more about BPA at www.bpa.gov.



POSITION SUMMARY



Join BPA's System Operations, Technical Operations team as an Information Technologist Specialist. You will be a key team member:

Applications Design and Maintenance: Assesses customer requests for software applications support for business services and processes. Analyzes work requirements, processes, and procedures and designs interactive applications utilizing Microsoft technology in a clustered server environment.



Website Design: Designs and maintains internal websites for BPA users. Uses HTML coupled with server-side web technologies to design sophisticated interactive web pages that allow project managers and SMEs across the agency to retrieve information in a variety of formats from BPA data acquisition systems.



Data Analysis: Performs ad-hoc data mining on SQL and PI to provide power systems data to a variety of users, such as load forecasting, power usage, etc.



Data Integrity: Leads or supports designated lead for business monitoring, modeling and analysis for OpInfo data tools and processes. Designs and updates monitoring tools for SQL and PI archives to ensure integrity of historical archive remains high.



Technical Resource: Participates as a team member to develop policies regarding the critical infrastructure and protection (CIP) of BPA computer systems. Develops and recommends adoption of implementation plans to accomplish system patches, coding changes, etc. Supports TOT on a variety of committees or task forces as assigned, representing Technical Operations' priorities and perspectives.



Systems Administration: Responds to IT-related questions from business users in Transmission Services (TS), Power Services (PS), and Control Center Dispatchers using a wide variety of applications on the web server and BPA business systems and networks supported by the OpInfo group. Troubleshoots and cures problems experienced by customers who use systems data in different ways for different purposes. Stays current on new Information Technologies and shares information with IT group. Responds to after-hours callouts when 24-hour staff experience issues with OpInfo systems.



Technical Training and Briefings: Develops and delivers technical training to dispatchers and other systems users. Prepares course content, training materials, and other user guidelines to ensure that that systems operations, changes or enhancements are fully understood.



Qualifications:



You must have one year of specialized experience at a level close to the work of this job that has given you the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform. Typically we would find this experience in work within this field or a field that is closely related. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year's experience at the next lower grade designing and implementing software applications using SQL and Microsoft NET Framework (C# or Visual Basic). In addition, candidate must have experience with two or more of the following programming languages: PI-SDK, EXCEL VBA, a Windows-supported scripting languages, HTML.



BENEFITS

BPA was selected as one of the top companies and agencies in Oregon to receive the "Families in Good Company" award for demonstrating community leadership in assisting employees in balancing work and family responsibilities. Here are a few examples of how we do it:



* Up to 13 days of vacation time to start
* 10 paid holidays per year
* unlimited sick leave accrual
* affordable and health insurance
* life insurance provided
* secure retirement program
* long-term care Insurance
* tax deferred, agency matching investment plan
* family friendly leave
* federal credit union
* on-site fitness facility
* public transportation subsidy
* on-site daycare



HOW TO APPLY

For specific application instructions and detailed information please visit www.jobs.bpa.gov/job_search and click on Information Technology Specialist, Announcement #6654-09-DE.

You will initially be evaluated based solely on the written material you provide in your application. Only complete applications will be accepted and considered. At a minimum, a complete application requires your:

* Resume,
* Knowledge, Skill, and Ability (KSAs) evaluation statement responses

Applications will be accepted through September 8, 2009 from U.S. citizens only.



If you have any questions, please contact Chris, at 503-230-3302.