This position is located at the Office of Construction and Facilities Management located in Washington, D.C. Washington DC Pay Scale: GS-14: $139,395 - $181,216

Duties

The incumbent serves as a Senior Automated Transport Consultant (General Engineer) within the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM), Consulting Support Service (CSS) which has primary responsibility for architectural, engineering, and risk management services to all VA Facilities. CSS maintains experts in engineering, architectural and provides consulting services to resolve the most facility problems as well as provide options to facilities on the best approach to meet their needs. CSS supports all components of VA nationwide including professionals within CFM, including but not limited to, providing support on building project design issues, subject matter expertise in all matters pertaining to VA's major design and construction programs, and serving as VA's authoritative source for advice on issues at existing VA Medical Centers. The Service also includes direct on-call consulting support VA-wide, overseeing a full array of technical professional consultation such as planning, design concepts, design development, construction documents, field inspections and O&M services. Engineering and Architectural expertise covers architectural, mechanical systems, plumbing systems, electrical systems, fire protection and safety, automated transport systems, structural/seismic systems, and other specialty expertise. Automated transport systems include elevators /vertical lifts, escalators, moving walkways, and various conveyances systems such as material delivery systems within medical facilities. Contact VISN/Medical Center personnel to discuss problems and situation with various automated transport systems. Conducts field visits to meets with the medical center executives and engineering personnel to determine the expectations of the client. Review documented performance problems and provide on-site testing and evaluation of existing systems. Develop overview of findings with recommendations on maintenance, replacement, modernization or other alternatives. Include recommendations on the need for maintenance to keep systems operating efficiently and safely. On replacement needs, describes the overall scope of the project providing an outline on schedule needs and conceptual cost estimate. Assist with the evaluation of A/E consultant qualifications to perform the work. Evaluate elevator consultant's fee proposals based on seasoned expertise in the industry and submit recommendations for approval or disapproval. Meets with private sector contractors, architectural and engineering consultants to explain technical findings and items that pertain to elevator and other automated systems certification and safety requirements. Review submittals and provides authoritative interpretation on governing codes and safety issues to meet certification standards. Review the technical aspects of design manuals, standards and specifications to ensure that all guides reflect the current VA standards for Automated Transport Systems. Keep up to date on state-of-the-art equipment, changes in standards, codes, and requirements. Work Schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Compressed/Flexible Schedule: May be available Telework: May be available Remote/Virtual: Not available Position Description Title/PD#:General Engineer (Automated Transport)PD10007-0

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• May serve a probationary period
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Selectee must Obtain and Maintain a FAC-C Professional Certification (Documentation Required)
• Transcripts required.
• Must obtain and maintain a Elevator Certification.

Qualifications

To qualify applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement,02/13/2024. For the GS-14 level, do you possess at least one (1) full year of specialized experience at the GS-13 grade level that equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of this GS-14 grade level position? This experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: experience as a senior resident engineer or architect over a major renovation, modernization or new construction project involving two or more types of medical facilities; experience as a supervisor for a matrixed team of engineering specialties; experience in contract administration for Federal major construction projects; experience with primary responsibilities to explain, plan, coordinate, defend, justify, negotiate, interpret of construction contract or associated documents; experience in developing written responses to inquiries or requests for information on technical and administrative subjects and communicating job progress through verbal and written means. (Evidence of this specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of like duties performed in positions held on your resume. You will also need to provide work experience information such as hours per week, salary, and starting/ending dates of employment (month and year format) to establish you have one (1) full year of specialized experience at the required grade level). 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 the GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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.

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

General Engineer (0801)

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

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 all-inclusive.)
• Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

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.

Contacts

• Address Construction and Facilities Management 425 I Street NW Washington, DC 20001 US
• Name: VACO OCHO HRSC Recruiting & Staffing Team
• Email: [email protected]