Supervisory Healthcare Engineer

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Biloxi (MS); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks a Supervisory Projects Engineer to ensure safe, reliable operating environments for direct patient care by leading design and construction programs to build and renovate hospital and support spaces.

Expertise in hospital features, building management, and environmental control systems is required, with strong collaboration across regional facilities to align capital asset requests with strategic plans and deliver compliant, high-quality healthcare

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Architecture from an ABET-accredited program.
• FE certification or Engineer-in-Training certificate is acceptable.
• Professional Engineer licensure recognized for eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Resolve complex engineering problems using evolving concepts and novel approaches.
• Coordinate capital planning and healthcare system portfolio management, including budget development and tracking.
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to justify, defend, and implement policies and plans.
• Interpret broad guidelines and adapt existing standards to improve policies and infrastructure.

Skills

Engineering concepts

Budget planning

Collaborative communication

Policy development

Capital asset management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Architecture

FE certification or equivalent

Professional Engineer licensure (PE)

Job description

The Supervisory Projects Engineer ensures safe, reliable, and a precisely controlled operating environment for direct patient care through management of a design and construction program to build and renovate hospital and support environments. Supervisory Project Engineers serve as experts in the design of the medical care environment, including all hospital building features, automated building management and environmental control systems, and critical utility systems. etc. Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education. Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Architecture. To be acceptable, the curriculum must be from a school with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Engineering Accreditation Commission (excludes engineering technology) or National Council of Architectural Registration Boards curriculum. Examples of acceptable engineering and architectural degrees include, but are not limited to: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture and Architectural Engineering. Titles may vary from educational institutions and change over time;

OR

• Evidence of passing the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination with a bachelor's degree. Evidence can be in the form of an Engineering in Training certificate issued from any State, the District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico, or test results from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) identifying a passing score;

OR

• Evidence of current professional registration or licensure as a Professional Engineer or Architect. Evidence of current professional registration or licensure can be from any State, the District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico.

May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).

Experience.

One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade and Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to meeting the experience requirements for this grade level, the candidate must fully demonstrate the following KSAs:

• Knowledge of current and evolving concepts and principles of general engineering to resolve novel or obscure problems; extend and modify techniques; develop new approaches that guide other engineers who solve a variety of technical problems; and/or apply new, innovative or experimental advanced engineering theories, developments or practices.
• Skill in construction, capital planning and multiple healthcare system portfolio management inclusive of budget development and tracking.
• Skill to collaborate with persons having different viewpoints, goals or objectives to achieve a common understanding of the problem and a satisfactory solution by justifying, defending, negotiating or settling controversial and far-reaching matters through active participation in conferences, meetings or presentations.
• Ability to interpret broad guidelines and exercise considerable judgment and ingenuity in interpreting and adapting existing guides, developing new and improved hypotheses, concepts or approaches to previously tested or reported and/or in developing new policies that advance the organization.
• Ability to coordinate and interact with regional facilities, national and corresponding staff for the implementation and coordination of policies and program plans to apply prioritization methodologies that align facilities' capital asset requests and develop infrastructure options that result in the efficacious use of regional level capital strategic plans.
• Ability to adapt and apply trends in healthcare delivery systems that impact long-term capital assets (such as aging equipment and physical plants) for regionally integrated healthcare systems.
• Ability to consult and collaborate with all organizational levels in a national healthcare organization, outside organizations and businesses regarding both strategic and financial activities of a regional healthcare organization.
• Ability to implement and/or sustain a capital asset and construction program that meets healthcare facility related standards, codes,

Reference

For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

Physical Requirements

The work is primarily sedentary, although some physical effort may be required, e.g., walking, standing, climbing ladders, stooping, kneeling, and carrying light items such as manuals or briefcases, or driving or traveling by motor vehicle.