This position is organizationally aligned under the Engineering Service at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital. The primary purpose of the position is to function as a facility Project Manager over work performed at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital campus and its Community Based Outpatient Clinics. The responsibilities of the position involve direct coordination with staff, architectural/engineering designers, construction and maintenance contractors and the general public.

Duties

Major Duties Include (but are not limited to): Oversees and coordinates project management activity related to planning and monitoring construction design from conception stage to final drawing completion. Provides administrative direction and oversight over construction control activities and project milestones. Monitors budget from planning through construction phases and makes frequent inspections of worksites to ensure compliance with contract requirements. Conducts and participates in partial and final inspections of completed work. This includes reviews on project progress, measuring performance and taking necessary corrective actions to maintain agreed upon schedule and cost. Participates in the preparation of feasibility studies, cost estimates, and monitors progress of drawings for work to be performed by contractors. Provides solutions to administrative problems that may arise in the daily accomplishment of projects. Prepares project outlines that include original designs and preliminary and final layouts. Prepares construction cost estimates and engineering feasibility studies. This includes performing market research to procure products and services to meet project needs. Coordinates and ensures that contractor operations are scheduled with surrounding Hospital activities to ensure that essential services are maintained. Reviews plans and work progress with contractor and subcontractors. Coordinates the pre-construction and safety meetings with contractor/s, contracting officer/s, facility safety officer and other interested parties. Reviews and approves submitted construction schedules and coordinates utility outages and disruptions with Hospital activities to ensure that essential services are maintained with minimum interruption to patient care. Schedules administrative reviews at the appropriate time in the planning process. This includes life safety reviews, infection control reviews, patient safety reviews, fire safety reviews and independent reviews as necessary. Comprehensive knowledge of the full range of principles, concepts, and methodology associated with project management of engineering projects to plan and complete assigned workload applicable to the full range of duties concerned with the design, layout, and construction of facilities structures. Ability to deal with several complex problems simultaneously and must be capable of assembling data pertaining to Station Level, Nonrecurring, and Major/Minor Projects, sufficient to locate and use technical information from textbooks, handbooks, manufacturers' catalogs, literature and the Internet in order to solve these problems. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 3:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Project Manager/PD20087A

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/26/2024. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-11 Grade Requirements: Experience: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level which provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the Project Manager. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to experience with: overseeing and coordinating project management activity related to planning and monitoring construction design from conception stage to final drawing completion, ensuring construction and patient/public safety risks are appropriately managed during all phases of design (site investigation) and construction, articipating in the preparation of feasibility studies, cost estimates, and monitors progress of drawings for work to be performed by contractors, and coordinating and ensuring that contractor operations are scheduled with surrounding Hospital activities to ensure that essential services are maintained. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the experience required for the GS-11 level which is a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.M if related to the position which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position.(TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and higher level graduate education as described above. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Contract AdministrationContracting/ProcurementCustomer Service (Clerical/Technical)Planning and EvaluatingProblem SolvingProject ManagementStress Tolerance 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 a combination of sedentary and requiring physical effort and exertion such as e.g., walking, standing, carrying light items such as manuals or briefcases, or driving or traveling by motor vehicle. Long periods of standing, bending, and stooping is also required to observe and study work operations in project construction areas/sites, confined spaces, mechanical equipment rooms, and other spaces that are noisy, dirty and close quarters, and lifting of light to moderate heavy items weighing less than 50 pounds. 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

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

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 Edward Hines Junior Hospital 5000 South 5th Avenue Hines, IL 60141 US
• Name: Andrea Bell
• Phone: 2109926210
• Email: [email protected]