Healthcare Engineer

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Duties and skills needed to be successful in this position include - but are not limited to:

• Determines requirements - reconnaissance - location - and prepares designs - specifications and estimates
• Applies a broad knowledge of the conventional methods - precedents - and standards
• Provides professional advice to peers - subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers
• Provides professional advisory services to managers and administrators
• Performs scheduling and layout of operations - and inspection and surveillance of materials - methods - and equipment used in construction
• Uses originality to develop and modify methods - techniques - and procedures - in discerning new patterns of phenomena - and in correlating and substantiating already developed hypotheses
• Develops competitive bidding cost estimates for a variety of projects of multiple-use nature - or projects in different geographic locations thus presenting different physical or cultural considerations
• Performs professional advisory services pertaining to the observation - examination - measurement - analysis - mapping and description of physical and cultural features and phenomena
• Conducts and/or provides professional advisory services pertaining to the investigation of a variety of problems relating to performance of maintenance requiring modification in the original maintenance design
• Coordinates with the designer and contractor in making design changes
• Conducts investigations to obtain factual information pertaining to the issue
• Affirms quality control and adequacy of contractor's operations and confers with contractor to obtain corrective action
• Reviews contractor's progress charts and conducts field surveys to verify fulfillment of obligations
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

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
• English Language Proficiency: Healthcare Engineer candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C.7403(f)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Architecture
• 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

Experience:

• One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade

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 mechanical - electrical - structural - civil and other engineering/architectural principles - practices and their applications in the healthcare environment
• Knowledge of healthcare industry standards and related regulatory agency and organization (including - but not limited to The Joint Commission (TJC) - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) - etc.) regulations - requirements - guides - policies - procedures - directives - standards and general medical program requirements as they relate to healthcare engineering
• Skill in researching and analyzing information - conditions - human factors and projections to make sound engineering and business recommendations and decisions to proactively identify problems and develop innovative solutions within the context of applicable rules - regulations and procedures
• Ability to plan and execute complex - multi-faceted projects and inspections while prioritizing resources against approved scopes of work - contract documents and budgets
• Ability to organize and lead multi-disciplinary task forces with members from different departments and divisions - as well as design and construction firms

Preferred Experience

• Engineering experience strongly preferred
• Construction project management experience strongly preferred
• Design review and drawing knowledge strongly preferred