About the Position: Serves as the Commissioning Specialist for highly complex and comprehensive medical projects with collective program costs exceeding several hundred million dollars. Incumbent implements and amends the strategy for reducing costs and risk while increasing quality through Commissioning (Cx).

Duties

A member of the commissioning team providing interdisciplinary coordination to ensures all facility systems perform interactively in accordance with design documentation and the owner's intent. Reviews design documents, construction submittals, requests for information, and shop drawings primarily for vertical construction and provides comments and recommendations for improvements, approval, or disapproval. Reviews may be for technical adequacy; quality assurance; contract, criteria, and code compliance; and constructability/ operability/ maintainability. A member of the commissioning team in preparing and implementing commissioning plans and reports. Reviews commissioning plans, activities, and reports for contract compliance and provides recommendations for improvement, approval, or disapproval. Procures architect/engineer contract services. Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, government cost estimates, and technical analyses of proposals; participates in negotiations of contracts, task orders, and modifications. Performs inspection of assemblies, and systems during construction. Observes contractor personnel performing installation and testing of assemblies and systems. Reports on the quality of installation and the conformance of the installation to contract specifications. Investigates and trouble-shoots components, assemblies, and systems. Reviews and provides input on energy/water/materials efficiency and LEED prerequisite/credit compliance. Provides recommendations to site personnel about correcting deficiencies and other engineering and construction issues. Validates and documents the performance of architecture and engineering components, assemblies, and systems.

Requirements

• 1 year Probationary Period may be required.
• Valid State Drivers License is required.
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 15% for official duties/training.

Qualifications

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce under 5 USC Sec 9905, to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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. This position has selective placement factor which must be met prior to employment and for continued employment. Selective Placement Factor: This position has a requirement for professional registration as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) or Registered Architect (R.A). (Please upload proof of registration with your application package.) Basic Requirement for a Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineer: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. Basic Requirement for an Architect: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by at least one of the following: (1) Related Curriculum - Degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work in architectural engineering provided knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to those provided in the courses specified in statement A above, or (2) Experience: 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of any college courses, 5 years of such experience is required. This experience must have demonstrated that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized experience GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes1. Experience with commissioning of facility systems for complex vertical construction projects. 2. Experience participating in multi-disciplinary teams. 3. Experience with multiple types of construction contracts. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11 or above). Specialized experience GS-13: One year of specialized experience which includes 1. Experience with commissioning of facility systems for complex vertical construction projects. 2. Experience participating and/or leading multi-disciplinary teams. 3. Experience with multiple types of construction contracts. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12 or above).

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

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