The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT) is a national office dedicated to improving the VHA and other Federal agencies, access to care, quality safety, and efficiency and is tasked by the Under Secretary for Health with creating, implementing, and managing multiple VHA wide programs and projects. *** This vacancy may be filled in Washington, DC or a location to be determined in a VA facility or other VA-leased space***

Duties

The salary range listed on this announcement reflects the GS Salaries across the entire country for the grade levels being announced. Once a selection is made the salary will be set based on your location and the given locality table for that area. - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2024/general-schedule Major Duties: Acts as a project manager for large and complex healthcare operational improvement projects impacting patient care delivery systems. Identifies system design problems that contribute to human errors. Responsible for planning and conducting analytical studies of management functions in support of improvements in organizational structure and staffing level efficiency. Provide instruction to others on systems engineering principles and tools. Develop statistical, graphical, and narrative reports justifying work unit reorganization or position restructuring to improve system effectiveness and efficiency. Identifies alternative systems and processes based on industrial engineering principals to mitigate errors. Consultant both within the Office of Healthcare Transformation as well as to local, regional, and national VA leadership on industry best practices to effect improvements in mission effectiveness, resource utilization, and cost savings. Provides expertise in professional engineering topics with an emphasis in industrial engineering, human factors, informatics, quantitative patient safety, or quality improvement, or equivalent experience. Ensure sustainability and spread of efforts directed at improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency using management engineering. Work with teams responsible for improving systems to ensure that their projects are based on sound engineering principles. Use data gathered during the analytical phase of studies to create optimized systems. Develop processes to ensure emphasis will be placed on eliminating errors due to handoffs and breakdowns in communication, cognitive overloading, interruptions and disruptions, and hurnan-computer interaction. Manages and oversees project timelines for self and team. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am - 4:00pm Compressed/Flexible: Available. Telework: Available (applicant is required on site 50% of work schedule per pay period). VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position is authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: The employee may work at a VA facility or other VA-leased space other than the facility that is hiring the employee) and is authorized for telework up to 50%. Remote: This is not a remote position. Position Description/PD#: Industrial Engineer/PD02524A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/12/2024. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements - Professional Engineering Positions, 0800 Series For the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) ONLY, a transcript must be submitted with your application. All applicants MUST meet the following Individual Occupational Requirements: Basic Requirements: 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: 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.) In addition to the Individual Occupational Requirements, you MUST also meet the GS-13 specialized experience requirements. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: 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: Leading and organizing National, VISN, and Health Care System (HCS) quality, performance, and informatics improvement efforts. Developing innovative solutions to improve enterprise level healthcare systems. Responsible for conducting studies to address complex problems in healthcare quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency using advanced analytical techniques, statistical methods, and industrial and quality engineering tools. Develop data gathering strategies and work with services and work teams to obtain process information. Make decisions regarding appropriate allocation of time and effort to individual and collaborative projects Ensure sustainability and spread of efforts directed at improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency using management engineering. Communicate studies to national, VISN, and HCS leaders. Note: Evidence of specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held on your resume. You must 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 or comparable to the required grade level. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analysis and Problem SolvingProject ManagementSelf-ManagementSystems EngineeringWriting 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 sedentary and does not require any special physical effort. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. 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

There is no educational substitution at the GS-13 grade level. However, for the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) ONLY, a transcript must be submitted with your application.


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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VHA Servicing Human Resources Office - 2 2402 Wildwood Ave Suite 301 Sherwood, AR 72120 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]