Bureau of Reclamation

Established in 1902, the Bureau of Reclamation is best known for the dams, powerplants, and canals it constructed in the 17 western states. These water projects led to homesteading and promoted the economic development of the West. Reclamation has constructed more than 600 dams and reservoirs including Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and Grand Coulee on the Columbia River. Today, we are the largest wholesaler of water in the country. We bring water to more than 31 million people, and provide one out of five Western farmers (140,000) with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland that produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. Reclamation is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United States. Our 53 powerplants annually provide more than 40 billion kilowatt hours generating nearly a billion dollars in power revenues and produce enough electricity to serve 3.5 million homes.

Maintenance WorkerDuties: Performs a variety of maintenance tasks such as electrical, plumbing, carpentry, equipment operation, and pest management.Electrical Work: Repairs that can be accomplished by removing, replacing, tightening, splicing, soldering, and insulating defective wiring, controls, equipment, and fixtures such as broken and bare wiring, burned out switches and relays, loose connections and fittings, damaged light fixtures, and poorly operating thermostats. Repairs are to be made on such equipment as electrical equipment inside well vaults, pumping plants, under drainage manhole locations, electric powered slide gates, measuring station control structures, Projects office, warehouse and yard electrical equipment and portable generators Plumbing Work: Pipe repair and replacement in salvage wells, elevation wells, pumping plants, pipeline laterals and office and warehouse buildings. Pipe work includes cutting, threading, measuring, fitting, and soldering. Carpentry Work: Medium rough to finish specifications. Work will include building cabinets and bulkheads, repairing, and replacing associated hardware, and building structure repair. Engineering Equipment Operation: Use of a hydraulic excavator, front end loader, backhoe, dump trucks, transporter, motor grader, forklift and well work-over rig. The hydraulic excavators will be used for cleaning and cutting weeds from the canal; the workover rigs to remove pumps, stop logs, etc. Well work-over rig will be used to remove and replace pumps. The forklift will be used intermittently to load and unload materials as needed. The hydraulic excavators and workover rigs will be very close tolerance work. Miscellaneous Work: Include cleaning trash racks, vehicle maintenance, and fence and gate repair.

No prerequisite eligibility requirements