Healthcare Engineer

About the role

The Healthcare Engineer position serves as a Project Engineer at the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Saginaw, MI. This position performs project planning, produces designs, manages designs, manages construction, and provides construction administration for Minor Construction Projects, Non-Recurring Maintenance (NRM) Projects, Station Level Projects, and Leases, including all areas and aspects at the medical center and associated Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC)'s.

Responsibilities

• Determines the requirements for healthcare projects in relation to the needs of the Healthcare System, inclusive of the parent site, as well as off-site locations under the auspice of the Healthcare System, whether VA owned or leased
• Provides a broad review of all disciplines of Engineering when applied to a healthcare environment to support construction document reviews and preparation
• Performs evaluations on medical care programs and services to ensure assigned projects are aligned and support the healthcare organization's needs and requirements for expansion of service and/or efficient flow of operation
• Manages Healthcare Design and Construction Administration
• Uses independent seasoned engineering judgment in evaluating and performing scheduling and layout of operations, inspection, and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction
• Responsible for managing and dealing with constantly changing priorities and deadlines based on engineering workload
• Responsible for training the facility maintenance staff on new equipment or complex utility systems to ensure the staff have the comprehensions, qualifications and understanding of the systems to maintain and operate
• Performs Healthcare Construction Management and Post Project Activities
• Provides direction and guidance to the contractor for construction within the facility
• Responsible for a working knowledge of Infection Control and the requirements to be followed included in the Risk Assessments, their application in the health care environment, and methods necessary to retain separation of active construction from the healthcare environment
• Medical Infrastructure Planning
• Assists on the medical center construction projects, space functional changes, and associated planning with respect to medical technologies and medical-related technologies
• Provides project management for the planning, construction design reviews, construction and equipment installation including, but not limited to: cardiac catheterization laboratories, operating rooms, pharmacy compounding suites, sterile processing facilities, radiology suites, and computer systems
• Regulatory Agencies
• Assists in monitoring and reporting on construction and utilities management program that allows the Veterans Health Administration to meet the requirements set by accrediting organizations such as The Joint Commission.
• Network Security
• Shares responsibility in ensuring that information security issues are managed effectively for engineering databases and building automation systems
• Documentation of such systems including details such as backup, disaster recover, security, etc. is difficult in scope but critical to management of the networked systems.

Requirements

This job is open to current permanent Department of Veteran Affairs employees, current permanent Federal employees of other agencies and all US Citizens.

Qualifications

• One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (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.
• Knowledge of construction standards, methods, practices and techniques, materials and equipment to determine compliance with engineering regulations and standards.
• 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.