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General Engineer

Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
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Summary

This position will serve as a General Engineer for the Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System in the Engineering Service. Incumbent will complete such duties that include planning and design work, providing professional engineering and architectural advice, performing construction administration work, performing maintenance administration work, and performing production administration work.

Overview

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Job canceled
Open & closing dates
01/11/2022 to 02/26/2024
Salary
$77,286 to - $100,470 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
1 vacancy
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Not required
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determination process
Announcement number
CBSU-11282515-22-GL
Control number
623905900

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Clarification from the agency

ALL US CITIZENS DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (COVID-19 - VA 002) in ­accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3304(a)(3) and 5 CFR 337.205(b)(1)-(4).

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Duties

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Major duties:
Performs Planning/Design Work

  • Determines requirements, reconnaissance, location, and prepares designs, specifications and estimates
  • Applies a broad knowledge of the conventional methods, precedents, and standards
  • Conducts investigations to develop improved design of materials and methods
  • Explores background information (literature, reports, and discussions with others having specialized knowledge of the issue) and consults with supervisor in evaluating information and selecting approaches to study the issue
  • Prepares designs characterized by a variety of conditions
  • Prepares original designs and preliminary and final layouts
  • Coordinates assignments with other agency engineers and architects responsible for related features
  • Reviews architect-engineer plans and specifications for adequacy and feasibility
Provides Professional Engineering/Architectural Advice
  • Provides professional advice to peers, subordinates, or non-professional administrators or managers
  • Provides professional advisory services to managers and administrators
  • Conducts investigations to obtain factual information pertaining to the issue
  • Explores background information (literature, reports, and discussions with others having specialized knowledge of the issue) and consults with supervisor in evaluating information and in presenting the information in an effective manner
  • Provides professional oversight and/or project management for construction or maintenances efforts
Performs Construction/Production Administration Work
  • Performs scheduling and layout of operations, and inspection and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction
  • Uses originality to develop and modify methods, techniques, and procedures, in discerning new patterns of phenomena, and in correlating and substantiating already developed hypotheses
  • Develops competitive bidding cost estimates for a variety of projects of multiple-use nature, or projects in different geographic locations thus presenting different physical or cultural considerations
  • Investigates a variety of problems experienced in construction requiring modification in the original design
  • Coordinates with the designer and contractor in making design changes
  • Assures quality control and adequacy of contractor's operations and convers with contractor to obtain corrective action
  • Reviews contractor's progress charts and conducts field surveys to verify fulfillment of obligations
  • Administers payments to the contractor
Performs Maintenance Administration Work
  • Provides guidance, development, and coordination for the planning, design, and oversite of maintenance projects
  • Develops competitive bidding cost estimates for a variety of maintenance projects of multiple-use nature, or projects in different geographic locations thus presenting different physical and cultural considerations
  • Investigates a variety of problems relating to performance of maintenance requiring modification in the original maintenance design
  • Coordinates with the designer and contractor in making design changes
  • Assures quality control and adequacy of contractor's operations and confers with contractor to obtain corrective action
  • Oversees, directs, or administers the development, production, and/or maintenance of materials, components, equipment, or other systems or sub-systems
  • Conducts and/or provides professional advisory services pertaining to the observation, examination, measurement, analysis, mapping and description of physical and cultural features and phenomena
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM and may include after hours depending on the needs of the facility.
Position Description/PD#: General Engineer/PD10639A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified candidates.
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
  • All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
  • You may be required to serve a probationary period
  • Subject to background/security investigation
  • Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
  • Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
  • Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Personnel

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/27/2022.

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 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. 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

  • Basic Requirement for All Professional Engineering Positions in the GS-800 Series: You must possess an Engineering Degree. To be acceptable, the program must: 1) lead to a Bachelor's Degree in a School of Engineering with at least 1 program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., (ABET); or 2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in 5 of the following 7 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 and aggregate structure to properties; g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
  • Basic Requirement for All Professional Engineering Positions in the GS-800 Series: Combination of Education and Experience - IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT OF A DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AS STATED ABOVE, APPLICANTS MAY QUALIFY WITH A COMBINATION OF 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 or their registration. 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; OR,
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 various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; OR,

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 the basic requirement; OR,

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 bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had a least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
  • In addition to the basic requirements stated above, GS-801-11 General Engineer applicants, must meet one of the following: a) Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization; OR, b) Education: 3 years ofprogressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR, c) Combination: a combination of successfully completed graduate level education (beyond the second year) and specialized experience as described above, which may be used to meet total experience requirements for this grade level. The education portion is qualifying if it provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the General Engineer position. NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education; education cannot be credited without documentation.
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.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

Integrity/Honesty- maintains integrity of organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct & understands impact of violating these standards on organization, self, & others; trustworthy
Planning/Evaluating- organizes work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations/parts of organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress; evaluates outcomes
Reasoning- identifies rules, principles, relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information; makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions
Writing- recognizes/uses correct English grammar, punctuation, spelling; communicates information in succinct, organized manner; produces written information that is appropriate for intended audience
Critical Thinking- objectively analyzes/evaluates an issue to form an opinion/judgement/conclusion; uses logic/reasoning to research/interpret/apply information such as regulatory and/or procedural guidance; identifies strengths/weaknesses of alternative solutions/conclusions/approaches to problems; integrates information into development of a resolution

Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary; some physical effort may be required, e.g. walking, standing, carrying light items such as manuals or briefcases, or driving or traveling by motor vehicle.

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Additional information

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview.Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

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