OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? *A Recruitment or Relocation Incentive is authorized for a highly qualified candidate.*

Duties

This position is located at the Clement J Zablocki. VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. The primary purpose of the position is to plan, evaluate, and advise on construction activities involving mechanical engineering systems and equipment including design, layout, construction, and installation within government buildings and designs mechanical systems and equipment to meet specialized facility needs. The position provides advisory expertise to the Facility Chief Engineer who determines the types of systems most suitable to meet the requirements of a structure, the equipment capacity requirements to meet a facility's needs, and ensures overall conformance with agency specifications and standards, which spans across multiple VISN 12 Facilities. Major Duties: -Performs design and layout of plans for heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems for multiple VISN 12 Medical Center facilities, research buildings and CBOCs. Projects include new construction and additions or renovations to existing structures. -Reviews and recommends approval of mechanical equipment, shop drawings and technical data submitted by contractors, ensuring conformance with plans and making recommendations as to the suitability of new processes and methods. -Coordinates assignment with other agency engineers and architects responsible for the adequacy of related features such as plumbing, lighting, power and structures to ensure proper integration of the assignment. Reviews architect-engineer plans and specifications for adequacy and feasibility. -Reviews design architect's working drawings which indicate building size and general arrangement. Makes field surveys to investigate existing equipment layout and conditions. Analyzes mechanical needs, makes calculations and determines types of systems most suitable to meet requirements of building within the prescribed budget. -Prepares original designs and preliminary and final layout of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems with regard to size, space, capacities and economy. Sizes the equipment according to the facility's needs, ensuring conformance with agency specifications. Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday 7:00 AM-3:30 PM and may be required to be present to provide off-hours support for utility outages, maintenance and projects support, etc. This is an in person position, telework and alternate work schedules are not applicable. *A Recruitment or Relocation Incentive is authorized for a highly qualified candidate.* Physical Requirements: The work is often sedentary, although some physical effort may be required, e.g., walking, standing, carrying light items such as manuals or briefcases, or driving or traveling by motor vehicle. Recurring assignments involve periods of standing, bending, and stooping to observe and study work operations in health facility project construction areas.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/14/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 grade level. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: BASIC REQUIREMENTS: 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; or2. 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) static's, 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. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) 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 professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their application to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration: Current registration as professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. 2. Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. 3. Specified academic courses: Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirement. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirement of a professional engineering curriculum as described in basic requirements. TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED. 4. Related curriculum: Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in a appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one (1) year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intense training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of professional engineering-type experience. TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED. In addition to the Basic Requirement, you must meet the following: GS-12 Level Specialized Experience: One (1) full year of specialized experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of this position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. The professional engineering experience required is defined as non-routine engineering work that required and was characterized by (1) professional knowledge of engineering; (2) professional ability to apply such knowledge to engineering problems; and (3) positive and continuing development of professional knowledge and ability. Such engineering experience would include: Knowledge of mechanical engineering concepts, principles, and methods. Communicating orally and in writing and maintaining good working relations. Knowledge of construction standards, methods, practices and techniques, materials, and equipment to determine compliance with regulations and standards. Knowledge of general industrial and/or construction processes, methods, practices, techniques, materials, equipment to determine compliance with environmental regulations and standards. Researching, analyzing, interpreting and applying rules, regulations, and procedures. Knowledge of environmental principles, practices, procedures, laws, regulations and current legislative issues. Conducting evaluations of environmental quality programs. Knowledge of the requirements, methods, techniques, and procedures pertinent to hazardous waste management practices. Knowledge of the requirements, methods, techniques, and procedures pertinent to evaluating environmental consequences of actions, operations, tests, etc., in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. Knowledge of cost and economic analyses principles, techniques, and practices. Knowledge of standard contracting regulations, practices, and procedures. Knowledge of automated data processing concepts, systems capabilities, and economic usage to effectively complete assignments. Planning and executing complex, multi-faceted projects. Ability to recognize and analyze problems, conduct research, summarize results, and make appropriate recommendations. Planning, analyzing and executing budgets and impacts on programs. Planning, conducting and recording surveys and inspections. (Equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) in Federal service) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Interpersonal SkillsMechanical EngineeringPlanning and EvaluatingProblem Solving 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. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Clement J Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center 5000 West National Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53295 US
• Name: Alana Mueller
• Phone: (414) 712-8332
• Email: [email protected]