Healthcare Engineer

Veterans Health Administration; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

The Birmingham VA Healthcare Service is seeking a Healthcare Engineer to support the Facilities Management Service. The role covers planning, design, construction, and administration for Minor Construction, Non-Recurring Maintenance, and Leases across the medical center and clinics.

Responsibilities include overseeing architecture/engineering contracts, maintaining drawings and codes, and acting as a contracting officer representative on professional design/construction projects.

Qualifications

• Project planning and design for healthcare facilities.
• Construction management for minor and major projects.
• Contract oversight to ensure compliance with regulations and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Project Engineer for VA Healthcare System projects.
• Plan, design, manage construction, and provide construction administration.
• Oversee contracts and ensure contractor compliance with requirements and codes.
• Support infrastructure operations and maintain technical references.

Skills

Project planning

Design management

Construction administration

Contract administration

Healthcare regulations

Codes & standards oversight

Education

Education recognized by U.S. Department of Education

Job description

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

The Birmingham VA Healthcare Service is recruiting for a Healthcare Engineer. The Healthcare Engineer will function under the Facilities Management Service. This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 30, 2026. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available.

Key Responsibilities

Serves as a Project Engineer at an assigned Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.

Performs project planning, produces designs, manages designs, manages construction, and provides construction administration for Minor Construction Projects, Non-Recurring Maintenance Projects, Station Level Projects, and Leases, including all areas and aspects (architectural, electrical, life safety, mechanical, civil, structural, etc.) at an assigned medical center and associated Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

Serves as resident and program engineer consisting of the planning, design, and overseeing of major healthcare system projects; oversees Professional Architecture/Engineering and Construction contracts to ensure the contractor is in compliance with all contractual requirements, healthcare regulations and codes, specifications and schedules are met in accordance with the government's requirements for VA owned and leased facilities.

Provides engineering support to the assigned healthcare system and is responsible for maintaining construction specifications and drawings, maintaining technical reference library of codes, standards, and other regulations which are applicable to the engineering construction industries Occupational Safety and Health Administration, National Fire Protection Association, American National Standards Institute and others.

Serves as a healthcare engineering advisor, engineer consultant, engineer designer, contract administrator, project manager, construction coordinator, and instructor during the design and construction of all projects assigned.

Responsible for performing the duties of a Contracting Officer Representative on professional design and construction projects, training service staff on technical issues and assisting the service staff on the completion of technical and administrative issues regarding infrastructure related operations of the medical facility. Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

EST Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA. Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).

Telework:This position may be authorized for ad-hoc telework which occurs on an occasional, non-routine basis and is utilized to complete short-term special assignments or to accommodate special circumstances even though the telework arrangement may occur continuously for a limited and specific period of time. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: FS61398F, FS61399F, FS61400F, FS61401F Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.

Requirements & 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/.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $70039 – $161512/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2027-02-06.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.

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