Explore a Career as a Field Electrical Engineer

• Perform preliminary engineering analyses on large projects.
• Provide products, studies and specialized technical support and analyses towards the real-time dispatch of BPA’s transmission system.
• Support mission-critical and mission-essential transmission grid operation.
• Troubleshot and analyze control center systems.
• Provide workshops, presentation, and/or briefings on technical topics related to engineering design, maintenance or operation functions.
• Analyze and implement standards and policies imposed by federal laws or regulatory entities.

Applicants must have obtained the following education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET or a program that includes differential and integral calculus and courses in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: statics, dynamics; strength of materials; fluid mechanics, hydraulics; thermodynamics; electrical fields and circuits; nature and properties of materials; and any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics or electronics
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• College-level education, training and/or technical experience that furnished a thorough knowledge of the physical; and mathematical science underlying engineering, and a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering science and techniques and the applications to one of the branches of engineering

Applicants must possess knowledge of the following: 

• Concepts, principles, theories and methods related to the design, analysis, test and integration of electrical systems, energy conversion, electrical power generation and energy transmission
• Tools and techniques used to develop functional physical or prototype models and simulations for test and evaluation programs
• Procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with federal laws, regulations and guidance