About the Position: The office is one of full responsibility for the development of Healthcare related facility projects for the maintenance, repair, sustainment, and upgrades of life-safety systems. It is a team environment to include internal and external customers. It is a people-oriented environment that demands excellent customer service. Applicants are expected to communicate clearly and be responsible for their projects. Flexibility is needed with shifting command priorities.

Duties

Prepare and design mechanical and life-safety systems in a medical treatment facility. Perform quality assurance functions, inspections and monitoring contractor performance. Plan and estimate renovation and repair projects involving mechanical fire protection systems within a Health Care Facility. Mechanical systems will include HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), Fire Protection, and Life-saftey Systems. Perform quality assurance inspections and troubleshoot operational problems within these mechanical systems. Support utility outages on these mechanical systems. Prepare documentation of the maintenance of life-safety and associated mechanical utility systems and other utility systems comprised of mechanical components and controls as they are relevant to Joint Commission accrediation. Plan and calculate mechanical system specifications and prepare cost estimates for competitive bidding of projects. Investigate, analyze and resolve design problems and construction conflicts. Test and maintain HVAC systems, hot and cold domestic water distribution systems, heating and chilled water distribution systems, medical gas systems, fire protection and extinguishing systems. Provide engineering and technical assistance and/or labor support to resolve critical system or equipment failures of building systems, equipment and subsystems. Develop project scopes of work, detailed design drawings, and pricing analysis for assigned small projects and assists engineers in managing large special projects.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Tier 3 security investigation or access for the duration of employment. A background investigation and credit check are required.
• This position requires the incumbent to have tuberculosis testing.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. 30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA)Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian EmployeeDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferOffice of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Experience required: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: Prepare and design utility systems (i.e. Fire Sprinklers, Alarms, mass notification systems) for a medical treatment facility; Perform quality assurance functions, inspections within a medical treatment facility; and monitoring contractor performance This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-10). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone -- no substitution of education for experience is permitted. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: MechanicalMechanical EngineeringOral CommunicationPlanning and Evaluating Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-10).

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address JT-DHA-DDAAFF DHA NCR MKT-WR NATL MIL MED CTR DO NOT MAIL Bethesda, MD 20889 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk