The Project Manager, serves as team lead responsible for the management and acquisition processes for the pre-design, design and construction of major Veterans Affairs projects within the Office of the Secretary, Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction (OALC), Office of Construction and Facilities Management, Office of Design and Construction. This position is located at the Office of Construction and Facilities Mgmt, San Francisco, CA or can be remote for highly qualified candidates.

Duties

Project Manager (PM) functions include acquisition processes and initiation of statement of work for contracts for schematic design, design development, and construction document packages developed by a private architectural and engineering firms as well as oversight for the acquisition and administration of the construction contracts to build facilities in support of the Senior Resident Engineer, once assigned; coordinates with the Contracting Officer for initiation and execution of processes involving negotiation, issuance, and administration of all contract changes of A/E services, testing labs, supplementary A/E contract services, and Commissions services; leads a team comprised of a matrix of architectural and civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and other engineering disciplines partnered to prepare and complete accurate and fully coordinated documents, including contract provisions, drawings and specifications, to comply with VA criteria, standards, and all appropriate codes; and administers the A/E Construction Period Services, Testing Lab, Commissioning, and associated contracts during the construction stage. The PM coordinates technical reviews for schematic drawings, design criteria, design development drawings, construction document drawings, and coordinates the review of architectural and engineering specialties involved in the proposed project identifies potential problems in submissions and coordinates comments from other professional in a formal response to the A/E firm; processes any variance or deviation requests in collaboration with VA Central Office Consulting Support Services to ensure appropriate Authority Having Jurisdiction signatures are obtained and filed accordingly; applies value engineering theories and principles, to assure the most economical methods of construction or construction materials are utilized, and to achieve cost efficiency for the Federal government. San Francisco, CA pay: GS-13 - $121,873 to $158,432 GS-14 - $144,017 to $183500 Work schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Compressed/Flexible Schedule Available Telework: Available Remote/Virtual: This position may be remote/virtual for highly qualified applicants. Position Description Title/PD#: General Engineer (Project Manager)/14105A The full performance level of this position is GS-14. At the GS-13 level, you will perform similar duties but under closer supervision. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Relocation Expenses: Authorized Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• Subject to a background/security investigation.
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Transcripts OR Professional Certification are required.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all specialized experience and time in grade requirements within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement, 08/28/2023. 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 within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. For a GS-14 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS13. 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 your most recent non-award 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 non-award SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one year time-in-grade. 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 will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationContract AdministrationFinancial ManagementLeadershipProject Management Specialized Experience GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience as a senior resident engineer or architecture over a major renovation, modernization or new construction project involving two or more types of medical facilities; experience as a project manager for a team of matrix of engineering specialties; experience in contract administration for Federal major construction projects; experience in primary responsibilities to explain, plan, coordinate, defend justify or negotiate difficulties of interpretation of construction contract documents; experience in developing written responses to inquire requests for technical and administrative subjects and communicating job progress through verbal and writing means. Specialized Experience GS-14: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience as a senior resident engineer or architecture over a major renovation, modernization or new construction project involving two or more types of medical facilities; experience as a project manager for a team of matrix of engineering specialties; experience in contract administration for Federal major construction projects; experience in advanced responsibilities to explain, plan, coordinate, defend justify or negotiate difficulties of interpretation of construction contract documents; experience in developing written responses to inquire requests for technical and administrative subjects and communicating job progress through verbal and writing means. 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. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary with occasional travel to designer firms, VA offices, or proposed and ongoing construction sites which may entail extensive walking, climbing, and crawling at times to review or inspect site locations and/or completed work. The inspection work may also require the physical ability to climb ladders and crawl through tight spaces to inspect completed work. Exposure to outside weather conditions, dust, and high noise levels is typical during site visits during the construction period. Site visits include construction areas requiring observance of appropriate safety precautions while wearing appropriate PPE. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

However, you must meet the Basic Occupational Requirement for one of the following 0800 series:

0801 - General Engineer

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; 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) statics, 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.

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)2 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 allinclusive.)

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

PLEASE NOTE: 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 (particularly positions with a positive education requirement). Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html. All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly. 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.

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.

Contacts

• Address Construction and Facilities Management 425 I Street NW Washington, DC 20001 US
• Name: NCA Human Resources Center
• Phone: (317)916-3660
• Email: [email protected]