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***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***

NOTE: This announcement has been extended to close on October 2, 2024. Applicant(s) who previously applied, do not need to re-apply.

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Overseeing the operating implementation and upkeep of multiple networked electronic systems.
• Providing technical support and management of systems, security controls including but not limited to security cameras, panic alarms, card readers, the pneumatic tube system, guest Wi-Fi, direct digital control (DDC) server maintenance, A/V systems for education and conference rooms, que management for laboratory and pharmacy, pharmacy pill counters/packagers, power mobile shelving, inventory dispensing systems, and nurse call.
• Providing additional management to all features of Real Time Locating System (RTLS) including asset tracking, inventory management, patient elopement systems and cardiac cath lab inventory management.
• Providing preventive maintenance inspections, maintenance and repair, calibration, installation, modification, and user training.
• Diagnosing and/or resolving problems in response to customer reported incidents via trouble tickets.
• Preforms all software updates and patching for networked electronic system.
• Ability to recognize hazardous conditions and procedures with electronic instrumentation system and initiates appropriate preventive or corrective action.
• Ability to determine whether a system is to be used, removed from, to be restored to, or allowed to remain in clinical use.
• Serves as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for design and implements projects associated with electronic system.
• Reviews all contractor's technical submittals, shop drawings, design computations, or similar information on materials for conformance with plans and specifications for these systems.
• Represents the organization at vendor events, meetings and conferences as required keeping the facility updated as possible with compliance.
• Recommend, develop, implement, redesign, reconfigure, or modify operating procedures to reduce equipment failures, eliminate hazards, or enhance accuracy and reliability.
• Planning and performing scheduled and unscheduled (emergency) maintenance on equipment to ensure the equipment is operating properly, calibrated properly, and in compliance with code and standards.
• Provides development, review, analysis, and evaluation of designs, drawings, and specification preliminary to facilities.
• Develops narrative scope of work detailing specifics control engineering requirements, including cost estimates for facilities related projects.
• Provide expert technical information/advice as a key member or coordinator on purchase of new instrumentation, planning of new systems, and modifications of existing systems to meet special needs.
• Being alert to all situations, acting tactfully and diplomatically in performing functions to not cause any disturbance to essential medical center operations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• 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 Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details.

Qualifications

Basic Education Requirement:

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
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 requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
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 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: Transcripts must be submitted with your application.

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To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must meet the Basic Requirement and you must meet one of the following requirements:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-9) in Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience include: Overseeing the operating implementation and upkeep of multiple networked electronic systems; Providing technical support and management of systems, security controls including but not limited to security cameras, panic alarms, card readers, the pneumatic tube system, guest Wi-Fi, direct digital control (DDC) server maintenance, audio-visual systems for education and conference rooms, que management for laboratory and pharmacy, pharmacy pill counters/packagers, power mobile shelving, inventory dispensing systems, nurse call, patent que, and other similar systems in a hospital environment. (THIS EXPERIENCE MUST BE SUPPORTED BY YOUR RESUME TO BE CREDITABLE. Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week.)

OR

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE: You may substitute education for specialized experience if you have successful completed three (3) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree that provided you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the Computer Engineer at the GS-11 grade level? Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the computer Engineer. (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED - You must submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Education cannot be credited without documentation.)

OR

COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You must possess an equivalent 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 must include graduate directly related to the work of this position. (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED - Your experience must be documented in your resume. You must submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Education cannot be credited without documentation.)

You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Computers and Electronics
• Customer Service (Clerical/Technical)
• Network Management

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. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify information provided by a candidate (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candidate's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Highly qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the requirements of the job;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.