Supervisory General Engineer
Serves as the Projects Section Chief for Engineering Service. The incumbent has the primary responsibility for short- and long-range project planning, cost estimating, project development/designs, and construction administration for this complex, multi-mission medical center which has an active research and development program. Assignments received typically entail complex variables with nonspecific relationships which once resolved separately, must be integrated into the overall project plan. Projects often span multiple years and involve funding costs from $1 to $20 million dollars. Priorities constantly change and must often be rearranged. Incumbent is a key member of the Engineering Service having authority to accomplish projects with a great deal of latitude, drawing from their professional training and experience. The incumbent shall coordinate scope of construction improvements with management of end- user services. Incumbent will also coordinate all aspects of utility shutdowns with impacted services, Maintenance and Operations (M&O) or Biomedical Engineering sections, and others as appropriate. Also coordinates various aspects of the programs with outside agencies and services to ensure timely completions of projects with minimal disruption of essential patient care services. Incumbent is responsible for ensuring the timely submission of all project related documents required by VISN, VACO, and other required authorities, including but not limited to Project Tracking Reports, various RCS reports, drawings, indicating changes in space, electrical distribution systems, water and sewage distribution systems, etc. Assists the Chief Engineer in updating the facility's Strategic Capital Investment Plan (SCIP) and maintaining the Capital Asset Inventory (CAI). Incumbent also manages all external leased properties operated by the medical center. There are community-based clinics in Charleston, WV; Prestonsburg, KY; Gallipolis, OH; and Lenore, WV; and Vet Centers located in Huntington, WV; Charleston, WV; and Logan, WV. Incumbent will manage day-to-day reported routine issues or problems with the clinic, coordinate repair or service work, and oversee any new construction or modification of the property. This will require the incumbent to obtain and maintain a Contracting Officers Representative (COR) Level 2 or higher to perform this duty The incumbent serves as the Projects Section Chief for a VA Medical Center serving more than 32,000 unique Veterans annually. The facility, part of Medical Complexity Group 1c (High Complexity), serves Veterans across 24 counties in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. The incumbent has overall responsibility for the maintenance and operations of plant, property, equipment assigned to eight VHA sites (the Medical Center campus; community-based clinics in Charleston, WV; Prestonsburg, KY; Gallipolis, OH; and Lenore, WV; and Vet Centers located in Huntington, WV; Charleston, WV; and Logan, WV). The facility trains large numbers of fellows, residents, interns, students (from multiple disciplines) and other trainees from a variety of medical/surgical and other programs via affiliation agreements. By way of effect, the incumbent's work significantly and directly affects the ability of VHA and other VA entities to meet the department mission. The incumbent ensures the creation and maintenance of safe and effective plant, property, and equipment which impacts the agency's mission to deliver quality, timely, care for Veterans in the region of multiple states surrounding the VA Medical Center. All other duties as assigned and specified in position description. Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, 8:
00 AM to 4:
30 P Telework:
Available Virtual:
This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#:
Supervisory General Engineer/PD20030 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/04/2020. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
A. Degree:
professional engineering (successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in professional engineering). To be acceptable, the curriculum must:
(1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your transcripts with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your registration or licensure with your application package for verification purposes. (DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your registration or licensure with your application package for verification purposes. (DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) 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:
You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) Specialized
Experience:
You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:
providing consultation and expertise to peers, subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers. Reviewing plans, specifications, and analyses of design as submitted by subordinate engineers. Providing professional advice to improve such plans, specifications and analyses. Directing necessary changes. Preparing detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding and bid evaluation. Preparing correspondence, technical reports, estimates fact sheets status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
CommunicationsGeneral EngineeringLeadershipProject Management 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:
This position requires walking, standing, bending, sitting, crawling and climbing. Incumbent must have good vision, with or without glasses. May lift or carry tools, equipment, ladders, scaffolding, parts and supplies up to 50 pounds. May occasionally lift and carry items over 50 pounds. Physical activity in response to emergency situations and call backs is expected. 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/.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Monday through Friday, 8:
00 AM to 4:
30 P Telework:
Available Virtual:
This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#:
Supervisory General Engineer/PD20030 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/04/2020. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
A. Degree:
professional engineering (successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in professional engineering). To be acceptable, the curriculum must:
(1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your transcripts with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your registration or licensure with your application package for verification purposes. (DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your registration or licensure with your application package for verification purposes. (DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED) 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. NOTE:
You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) 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:
You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) with your application package for verification purposes. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) Specialized
Experience:
You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:
providing consultation and expertise to peers, subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers. Reviewing plans, specifications, and analyses of design as submitted by subordinate engineers. Providing professional advice to improve such plans, specifications and analyses. Directing necessary changes. Preparing detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding and bid evaluation. Preparing correspondence, technical reports, estimates fact sheets status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
CommunicationsGeneral EngineeringLeadershipProject Management 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:
This position requires walking, standing, bending, sitting, crawling and climbing. Incumbent must have good vision, with or without glasses. May lift or carry tools, equipment, ladders, scaffolding, parts and supplies up to 50 pounds. May occasionally lift and carry items over 50 pounds. Physical activity in response to emergency situations and call backs is expected. 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/.
- Department:
0801 General Engineering - Salary Range:
$76,721 to $99,741 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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