Geospatial Analyst

Summary

This position is within the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Infrastructure Resiliency (TISR) organization, Strategy and Planning (TIS), Infrastructure Asset Management (TI), Transmission Services (T). As a Geospatial Analyst, make a real-world impact! You will use mapping and location data to protect and strengthen our power grid. Develop cutting-edge solutions for wildfire mitigation and asset management, creating visualizations that drive critical infrastructure decisions.

Duties

• Your Data, Our Grid: Secure the Pacific Northwest's Power as a Geospatial Analyst The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is at the forefront of securing the energy future of the Pacific Northwest.
• We are seeking a visionary Geospatial Analyst to join our team and play a critical role in protecting our vital infrastructure.
• This is more than a mapping job; it's a chance to use your advanced analytical skills to make a tangible impact on public safety, grid reliability, and environmental stewardship.
• You will work with a high degree of independence to design and execute projects that directly influence key business decisions.
• As a Geospatial Analyst, you will: Pioneer Predictive Models: Design, test, and implement sophisticated spatial models to forecast real-world conditions.
• Your work will directly inform strategies for wildfire probability, habitat restoration, and other critical environmental and infrastructural challenges.
• Build Next-Generation Tools: Collaborate with data scientists, asset managers, and program leaders to design and build innovative decision-making tools.
• Your work will directly support critical initiatives, including wildfire mitigation, asset management prioritization, and consequence modeling visualization.
• Automate and Innovate: Utilize your scripting expertise in languages like Python and JavaScript to automate complex data workflows, develop custom web-based applications, and create new efficiencies that enhance our analytical capabilities.
• Drive Advanced Spatial Analysis: Apply innovative statistical concepts and advanced GIS techniques to solve complex challenges, pushing the boundaries of traditional analysis to find new solutions and insights within our data.
• Architect Modern Data Solutions: Design and manage the flow of geographic information across modern cloud and on-premise platforms (such as ArcGIS Online, Portal, and SDE).
• You will create and refine robust workflows for data collection, storage, visualization, and analysis that serve the entire organization.
• Lead in Data Stewardship: Take ownership of our data integrity by designing and maintaining robust relational geospatial databases.
• You will ensure the quality, accuracy, and reliability of the foundational data that drives all spatial analysis and decision-making at BPA.

Requirements

In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answer to these questions is not scored or rated. Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration When you apply you will be asked a series of questions to determine your eligibility for employment and your qualification for this position specifically. You must answer all of these questions completely and truthfully.

Key Requirements: You must be a United States Citizen. This employer participates in the e-Verify program. Males must abide by Selective Service registration requirements. You will be required to report in person to the official duty location.

Conditions of Employment: A preliminary background check must be completed before a new employee can begin work. Current Federal employees or other individuals with an existing completed background investigation may not be required to undergo another background check.

Education

This vacancy has a positive education requirement. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Department of Education Accreditation Search to verify school accreditation.

Foreign education must be reviewed by an organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website.DO NOT email or mail in any of your application documents. Documents will not be accepted outside of the online application system.

In order to be rated as qualified, you must provide copies of your college transcripts. Failure to provide copies of your college transcripts may result in a rating of “Ineligible”.

How You Will Be Evaluated

Category Rating Procedure: You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Once the application process is complete, your resume, supporting documentation, and questionnaire/assessment responses will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications. If you are minimally qualified for this job, your responses to the USA Hire Competency Based rating assessment(s) will be evaluated and you will be placed into one of three predefined quality categories. These categories are Best Qualified, Well Qualified, and Qualified.

Application of Veterans’ Preference: If you are a preference eligible candidate, you will be listed at the top of whichever quality category your rating places you in. Preference eligibles with a compensable service-connected disability of 10 percent or more are placed at the top of the highest category for all positions except scientific or professional at the GS-9 grade level or above (or equivalent). Career Transition Assistance Programs: To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet the eligibility criteria; and 2) be rated “well-qualified”, which is defined as scoring 85.0 or higher. You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date (06/27/2026) of this announcement.

To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12990013 USAHire: To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

Required Documents

• To apply for this position, you MUST provide a complete application package which includes: Your two (2) page RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of each employer; start and end dates (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed education and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion date).
• Information on how to create a federal resume https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/account/documents/resume Cover Letter, optional, expressing additional information not covered in your resume.
• Transcripts, if specific educational requirements are indicated in this job announcement.
• Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable.
• It is your responsibility to provide adequate proof that you meet the educational requirements.
• Veterans' Preference documentation, if applicable, DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members- certification of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions dated within 120 days; SF-15 Form and related documentation; VA letter.
• For more information visit the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW information.
• Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documentation, if applicable (e.g., Certification of Expected Separation, Reduction-In-Force Separation Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 that documents the RIF separation action; and most recent performance appraisal.) For more information see the OPM Guide to Career Transition.
• Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of consideration due to an incomplete application package.
• It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted.