- Position Title
- Healthcare Engineer (VISN Energy Manager)
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSR-12269438-24-CMT Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, January 12, 2024 to Monday, January 22, 2024
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you a Veterans Health Administration employee?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
2.
Are you currently employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs within the VISN the position is located?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Resume Reminder - Your resume must include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
Accuracy of Application Reminder:
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Thank you for your interest in the Healthcare Engineer (VISN Energy Manager) GS-0801-14 position within VISN 10 Department of Veterans Affairs. To qualify for this position, you must meet basic requirements and specialized experience. We will evaluate your resume and your responses to this Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you qualified for this position. Your responses are subject to verification. Please review your responses for accuracy before you submit this questionnaire.
1.
This position will be located within the geographic borders of VISN 10. The selected candidate will primarily work from home but is expected to work within a reasonable commuting distance from one of the VISN locations listed below located in Ohio, Michigan, or Indiana. The selected candidate will be required to travel. Travel to your local VISN 10 facility to pick up a government owned vehicle, for travel to other sites, will be at your own expense.
VISN 10 Facility locations (CBOC locations are not listed below but included in travel) :
VISN 10 Office, 4605 Duke Drive, Mason, OH 45040
Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Battle Creek VA Medical Center, 5500 Armstrong Road, Battle Creek, MI 49037
Chillicothe VA Medical Center, 17273 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601
Cincinnati VA Medical Center, 3200 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45220
Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
Columbus VA Medical Center, 420 North James Road, Columbus, OH 43219
Dayton VA Medical Center, 4100 West Third Street, Dayton, OH 45428
Detroit VA Medical Center, 4646 John R Street, Detroit, MI 48201
Fort Wayne VA Medical Center, 2121 Lake Avenue, Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Indianapolis VA Medical Center, 1481 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Marion VA Medical Center, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, IN 46953
Saginaw VA Medical Center, 1500 Weiss Street, Saginaw, MI 48602
VISN 10 Facility locations (CBOC locations are not listed below but included in travel) :
VISN 10 Office, 4605 Duke Drive, Mason, OH 45040
Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Battle Creek VA Medical Center, 5500 Armstrong Road, Battle Creek, MI 49037
Chillicothe VA Medical Center, 17273 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601
Cincinnati VA Medical Center, 3200 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45220
Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
Columbus VA Medical Center, 420 North James Road, Columbus, OH 43219
Dayton VA Medical Center, 4100 West Third Street, Dayton, OH 45428
Detroit VA Medical Center, 4646 John R Street, Detroit, MI 48201
Fort Wayne VA Medical Center, 2121 Lake Avenue, Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Indianapolis VA Medical Center, 1481 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Marion VA Medical Center, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, IN 46953
Saginaw VA Medical Center, 1500 Weiss Street, Saginaw, MI 48602
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: We will evaluate your resume and your responses to this Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you qualified for this position. Your responses are subject to verification. Please review your responses for accuracy before you submit this questionnaire.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
2.
English Language Proficiency. Healthcare Engineers must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C.? 7403(f).
Are you proficient in spoken and written English language?
Are you proficient in spoken and written English language?
3.
Education. Select the best answer that applies to your education:
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
4.
Are you a citizen of the United States (U.S.)? (Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified candidates in accordance with 38 U.S.C. § 7407(a)).
5.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
GS-14 Grade Requirement.
Experience: In addition to the basic requirements, I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-13) grade level. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: providing engineering expertise in relation to healthcare system buildings compliance; expert on engineering technical issues for assigned programs; and managing assigned energy programs (i.e. capital planning, fiscal planning, project development, project renovation, modernization, and construction work).
AND
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to meeting the experience requirements for this grade level, the candidate must fully demonstrate the following KSAs:
(a) Knowledge of current and evolving concepts and principles of general engineering to resolve novel or obscure problems; extend and modify techniques; develop new approaches that guide other engineers who solve a variety of technical problems; and/or apply new, innovative or experimental advanced engineering theories, developments or practices to problems or studies not susceptible to treatment by acceptable methods. (b) Skill in construction, capital planning and multiple healthcare system portfolio management, inclusive of budget development and tracking.
(c) Skill in collaborating with persons having diverse viewpoints, goals or objectives to achieve a common understanding of the problem and a satisfactory solution of sometimes controversial and far-reaching matters through active participation in conferences, meetings or presentations.
(d) Ability to interpret broad guidelines and exercise considerable judgment and ingenuity in interpreting and adapting existing guides; in developing new and improved hypotheses, concepts or approaches not previously tested or reported; and/or in developing new policies that advance the organization.
(e) Ability to coordinate and interact with regional facilities, national and Department-level staff for the implementation and coordination of policies and program plans to apply prioritization methodologies that align facilities' capital asset requests and develop infrastructure options that result in the efficacious use of a regional healthcare organization capital strategic plan.
(f) Ability to adapt and apply trends in healthcare delivery systems that impact long-term capital assets (such as aging equipment and physical plants) for regionally integrated healthcare systems.
(g) Ability to consult and collaborate with all organizational levels in a national healthcare organization, outside organizations and businesses regarding both strategic and financial activities of a regional healthcare organization.
Do you meet the requirement as described above?
GS-14 Grade Requirement.
Experience: In addition to the basic requirements, I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-13) grade level. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: providing engineering expertise in relation to healthcare system buildings compliance; expert on engineering technical issues for assigned programs; and managing assigned energy programs (i.e. capital planning, fiscal planning, project development, project renovation, modernization, and construction work).
AND
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to meeting the experience requirements for this grade level, the candidate must fully demonstrate the following KSAs:
(a) Knowledge of current and evolving concepts and principles of general engineering to resolve novel or obscure problems; extend and modify techniques; develop new approaches that guide other engineers who solve a variety of technical problems; and/or apply new, innovative or experimental advanced engineering theories, developments or practices to problems or studies not susceptible to treatment by acceptable methods. (b) Skill in construction, capital planning and multiple healthcare system portfolio management, inclusive of budget development and tracking.
(c) Skill in collaborating with persons having diverse viewpoints, goals or objectives to achieve a common understanding of the problem and a satisfactory solution of sometimes controversial and far-reaching matters through active participation in conferences, meetings or presentations.
(d) Ability to interpret broad guidelines and exercise considerable judgment and ingenuity in interpreting and adapting existing guides; in developing new and improved hypotheses, concepts or approaches not previously tested or reported; and/or in developing new policies that advance the organization.
(e) Ability to coordinate and interact with regional facilities, national and Department-level staff for the implementation and coordination of policies and program plans to apply prioritization methodologies that align facilities' capital asset requests and develop infrastructure options that result in the efficacious use of a regional healthcare organization capital strategic plan.
(f) Ability to adapt and apply trends in healthcare delivery systems that impact long-term capital assets (such as aging equipment and physical plants) for regionally integrated healthcare systems.
(g) Ability to consult and collaborate with all organizational levels in a national healthcare organization, outside organizations and businesses regarding both strategic and financial activities of a regional healthcare organization.
Do you meet the requirement as described above?