This position is located at the Construction and Facilities Management in San Juan, PR. Pay Scale for RUS: GS-14: $122,198 - $158,860

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. 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. Work schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Available Telework: Not Available Remote/Virtual: This is not a virtual or remote position. Position Description Title/PD#: Supervisory General Engineer/PD1574297 The full performance level of this position is GS-14. Relocation Expenses: Not 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 are required.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all specialized experience and time in grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/12/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: For a 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: 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 with facility planning and development process needed to initiate and execute major construction projects and determine the sufficiency of various requests and proposals; experience using a wide range of engineering concepts, principles, practices and methods applicable to varied and complex problems, projects, or studies that may include diverse and engineering or other conditions; participate in automated transport system industry committees; assist with the evaluation of A/E consultant qualifications to perform the work; Review the technical aspects of design manuals, standards and specifications to ensure that all guides reflect the current standards; communicate and coordinate with the project delivery team, including but not limited to, Project Manager, Resident Engineers, A/E, and other stakeholders. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Building and ConstructionContracting/ProcurementLeadershipPlan and organize work 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 partially sedentary with regular and recurring travel to proposed and ongoing construction sites for extensive walking, climbing, and crawling at times to inspect site conditions or completed work. The work requires enough oral communication skills to obtain local permits, negotiate changes to contracts, and keep abreast of construction activities and progress. The position also oversees safety requirements within the construction perimeter to assure patient, staff, and construction team safety. 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 throughout the construction period. 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 Education Requirement below:

Professional Engineering Education Requirement:

• 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.
• 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.)

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]