Supervisory Healthcare Engineer-Project Section Chief

Summary

Serves as a supervisor within Engineering Service with responsibility for the Engineering and Construction Project Management section at a multi-faceted and affiliated VA Medical Center, including outlying Community Based Outpatient Clinics. Provides professional and technical guidance and direction and review of assigned programs.

Duties

• Major duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Ensures a safe, reliable, and precisely controlled operating environment for direct patient care through management of a design and construction program to build and renovate hospital and support environments.
• Serves as an expert in the design of the medical care environment, including all hospital building features, automated building management and environmental control systems, and critical utility systems, as well as the oversight of related construction including construction
• In and adjacent to operational healthcare environments.
• Collaborates directly with the Chief and Deputy Chief of Engineering
• Service, executive leadership, medical staff, nursing staff, and other clinical personnel regarding the design of the environment for medical care.
• They manage engineers and technicians who oversee construction and design contracts as contracting officer's technical representatives.
• They ensure that all hospital design and construction projects comply with a multitude of accreditation and regulatory requirements including, but not limited to, those promulgated by the Joint
• Commission (TJC), the Occupational Safety and Health
• Administration (OSHA), and the Environmental Protection
• Agency (EPA). Within the Projects Section, the Project Section
• Chief manages human resource functions such as hiring, performance, training and development.
• This position ensures internal personnel-related programs are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner, communicates agency and local policies and priorities to all employees within the projects section, delegates to subordinates the authority and responsibility to carry
• Out assigned tasks, follows progress of each and recommends improvement to be made where warranted, ensures labor/management relations are maintained in accordance with Medical
• Center policy and procedures, and that other requirements such as effective use of performance standards, EEO policies, and other personnel-related rules and regulations are effectively enforced. Provides technical advice on a wide range of engineering issues, including the Strategic Capital Investment Plan, Capital Asset Inventory, Capital Asset Resource Survey, Deferred
• Maintenance, and a myriad of engineering related topics. The Project Section
• Chief is also called upon to mentor newer engineers and help them as they learn the things they need to know to successfully perform in Projects
• Section. As part of the
• Engineering planning team, the Project Section
• Chief supports the Strategic Capital Investment
• Planning (SCIP) process. The Project Section
• Chief participates in discussion of proposed capital projects for the station and makes preliminary designs of major alterations, improvements, and additions to implement the Medical
• Center programs. The Project Section
• Chief establishes parameters in support of project scope development, ensuring alignment with master plan/strategic capital investment goals and
• Department objectives, goals, policies and priorities. Responsible for the implementation of the Medical
• Center's capital improvement program.
• Identified needs are individually transformed into engineering requirements, estimated, and accomplished locally or recommended as part of a comprehensive plan for agency funding.
• Coordinates and oversees scheduling and layout of operations, inspection and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction and renovation managed by subordinate engineers and engineering technicians.
• Provides technical resource information to engineering subordinates.
• Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm
• Telework: Ad-hoc only, per Supervisor's discretion
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional
• Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of
• Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

• You must be a U.S.
• Citizen to apply for this job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
• In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the
• Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the
• Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Required Documents

• To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action Special Note for
• Applications: To complete your application, please use the following link https://vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Resume.docx to download the standard Clinical Resume
• This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
• Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limitation into the 'Other' document upload field.
• The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualifications for this position.
• Please ensure you have included all documents required for your application, such as a copy of your transcript (if using education to qualify), SF-50's (current/former
• Federal employees), etc. Cover Letter License
• Resume/CV exceeding two-pages *Highly
• Recommended* Write to the
• Knowledge, Skills, and
• Abilities (KSAs) on a separate document
• KSAs are found under qualification/grade requirements in the announcement. Professional Certification Resume SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action Transcript Veterans' Preference: Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.