Summary
The incumbent serves as a General Engineer (Medical Automated Transport Engineer), within the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), Consulting Support Service (CSS), which has primary responsibility for architectural, engineering, and risk management services to all VA facilities. CSS maintains experts in engineering, architectural and provides consulting services to resolve the technical facility problems and offers options to facilities.
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DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.201) for this occupation.
Duties
CSS supports all components of VA nationwide including professionals within CFM, including but not limited to, providing support on building project design issues, subject matter expertise in all matters pertaining to VA's major design and construction programs, and serving as VA's authoritative source for advice on issues at existing VA Medical Centers. The incumbent also serves as the Departmental expert in all areas related to code compliance, construction issues, and building commissioning requirements.
Engineering and Architectural expertise covers architectural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, fire & safety, automated transport, structural/seismic systems, and other specialty expertise.
Medical Automated transport systems include various conveyances systems such as material delivery systems within medical facilities, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), pneumatic tube systems (PTS), pneumatic chute systems (PCS), as well as elevators/vertical lifts, escalators, and moving walkways.
The major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Contacting Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN)/Medical Center personnel to discuss problems and situation with various automated transport systems.
- Conducting field visits to meet with the medical center executives and engineering personnel to determine the expectations of the client.
- Reviewing documented performance problems and provide on-site testing and evaluation of existing systems.
- Assisting with the evaluation of A/E consultant qualifications to perform the work.
- Meeting with private sector contractors, architectural and engineering consultants to explain technical findings and items pertaining to elevator and other automated systems certification and safety requirements.
- Reviewing the technical aspects of design manuals, standards, and specifications to ensure all guides reflect current VA standards for Medical Automated Transport Systems.
- Develop and present written and oral reports and briefings on a variety of complex automated transport systems issues and problems.
- Participating in post occupancy evaluation of the facility to determine the validity and efficiency of present and applications and investigating means of improving future designs.
- Providing guidance and implementing policy directives on medical automated transport systems issues in support of VA's Construction Program.
- Reviewing submittals and provides authoritative interpretation on governing codes and safety issues to meet certification standards.
- Keeping up to date on state-of-the-art equipment, changes in standards, codes, and requirements.
- Develop and conduct training sessions to various project stakeholder groups to communicate developments in automated transport systems and evolving requirements.
- Act as the Design Support Team (DST) lead, chairing a team of SMEs reviewing VA Major Construction project design documents for compliance with codes, standards, and VA requirements.
- Obtain and maintain knowledge in Medical Transportation and Logistics Delivery systems such as material delivery equipment, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), pneumatic tube systems (PTS), elevators/vertical lifts, escalators, and moving walkways.
Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: May be Available
Telework: Available
Remote/Virtual: This is NOT a remote or virtual position
Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Not Available
Position Description Title/PD#:General Engineer (Medical Automated Transport Engineer) / PD100080
Financial Disclosure: Not Required
Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary with travel required to conduct training, to assess site conditions and to negotiate a phasing schedule for purposed repair/construction.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
- Subject to a background/suitability investigation
- May serve a probationary period
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
- Professional Engineering license is preferred, submit a copy of the license.
- Obtain and maintain related nationally recognized elevator inspection certifications [e.g., ASME Qualified Elevator Inspector (QEI-1)
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date 07/04/2024 of this announcement.
You must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience as described below:
***NOTE: Applicant must have demonstrated knowledge and working experience in the medical automated transport systems.***
GS-14 grade level: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in Federal Service. The specialized experience must demonstrate one year of full-time work experience, or the equivalent if part-time (for example, an employee working 20 hours per week for a 12-month period should be credited with 6 months of experience.) Experience may have been obtained in either the federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. Examples of specialized experience include: Senior subject matter expert (SME) in Medical Automated Transport systems (i.e., automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), pneumatic tube systems (PTS), pneumatic chute systems (PCS), as well as elevators/vertical lifts, escalators, and moving walkways) documents prepared by Medical Transport and Logistics (MTL), and elevator systems; comprehensive knowledge of building logistics, materials management, patient transport requirements, and material movement in hospitals and healthcare settings; designing and evaluating existing Medical Automated Transport systems as well as elevators/vertical lifts, escalators, and moving walkways; reviewing and commenting on AE design documents; reviewing contractor submittals and RFIs, and providing authoritative interpretation on governing codes and safety issues to meet certification standards; developing guidance and implementing policy directives on Medical Automated Transport systems issues in support of owner's Construction Program; developing and conducting training sessions to various project stakeholder groups. [ NOTE: Evidence of this specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of like duties performed in positions held on your resume. You will also need to provide work experience information such as hours per week, salary, and starting/ending dates of employment (month and year format) to establish you have one (1) full year of specialized experience at the required grade level].
This position includes a Quality Ranking Factor (QFR) - are knowledge, skills, and abilities/competencies that could be expected to significantly enhance performance in a position but are not essential for satisfactory performance. Applicants who possess such KSAs/competencies may be ranked above those who do not, but no one may be rated ineligible solely for failure to possess such KSAs/competencies.
The Quality Ranking Factor (QFR) is current professional certification/registration relevant to medical transport systems/elevators.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
- Analysis and Problem Solving
- Communications
- General Engineering
- Technical Competence
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Education
There is no educational substitution for this position; however, you must meet Basic Occupational Requirement for the General Engineering series 0801
A. Degree: Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statistics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. [COPY OF BACHELOR'S DEGREE TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED WITH APPLICATION]
OR
B. Combination of education and experience. college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure: Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses: Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum: Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. [The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive].
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.
Benefits
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How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Applicants will be referred in the order in which they were received.
Required Documents
Documents Required:
Documents Accepted:
- Cover Letter
- DD-214/ Statement of Service
- Disability Letter (Schedule A)
- Disability Letter (VA)
- Other (1)
- PCS Orders
- Performance Appraisal
- Professional Certification
- Resume
- Separation Notice (RIF)
- SF-15
- SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
- Transcript
Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application. Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50, transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional information. Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.
Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
Applications are accepted online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
All applicants are encouraged to apply online.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 07/04/2024 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12455426.
1. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire.
2. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login, select the Application Status link and then select the More Information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
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Next steps
After the vacancy announcement closes, applicants are evaluated to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certificate(s) is issued and applicants will be notified of their status by email.
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