- Position Title
- Chief Biomedical Engineer
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBTA-12665037-25-MM Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, January 15, 2025 to Monday, April 14, 2025
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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.
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.
Your resume must be submitted in English and 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.
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
Select the appropriate answer to each of the following questions based on your current level of education and/or experience that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this position.
Your application package will be reviewed to verify answers.
Resume: please ensure your resume clearly reflects specific details of experience, lists complete dates of employment, and indicates if the employment was part-time (list hours per week) or full-time to properly credit your experience: Job title; Complete Workplace Addresses; Duties (be as detailed as possible); Month and year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008); full-time, part-time status (include hours worked per week).
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
English language: Biomedical Engineers must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with chapter 2, section D, paragraph 5a.
Are you proficient in spoken and written English?
Are you proficient in spoken and written English?
2.
Education: Please choose the response that best describes your education. Please ensure you attach unofficial transcripts and any certifications claimed, to your application. Failure to do so may result in disqualification.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
3.
Specialized Experience:
This position requires completion of at least one year of experience equivalent to the next lower level, and must fully meet the KSAs at that level to qualify. Please indicate if you possess the Specialized Experience required for the GS-14 and that your resume clearly reflects:
This position requires completion of at least one year of experience equivalent to the next lower level, and must fully meet the KSAs at that level to qualify. Please indicate if you possess the Specialized Experience required for the GS-14 and that your resume clearly reflects:
- Ability to implement and/or sustain an equipment management or biomedical research program that meets The Joint Commission (TJC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), or other applicable regulatory requirements.
- Ability to develop material for a continuing education program for clinical or research staff, that address the principles and application of medical technology, and/or biomedical theory used in healthcare.
- Ability to advise staff on emerging medical technology, or research procedures, while keeping abreast of changes in such technology, and utilizing the information to solve biomedical engineering problems.
- Knowledge of basic project management principles, as applied to the healthcare setting and medical equipment, and information system implementation.
- Ability to conduct capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation, and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
- Knowledge and capacity to support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance.
- Knowledge of, and the ability to interpret and apply complex codes, regulations, guidelines, and standards associated with the biomedical engineering field.
- Ability to develop and implement policies that are consistent with organizational objectives.
- Ability to communicate and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, including technical and professional staff at various levels of the organization.
- Knowledge of the management of overall department resources, i.e., finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing at the local level.
- Ability to draft and/or recommend local policies and/or directives related to healthcare technology management.
- Ability to balance multiple responsibilities, set priorities, delegate tasks, meet multiple deadlines, analyze organizational problems, and develop and implement effective solutions.
- Ability to analyze organizational and operational problems to develop and implement solutions that result in efficient operations, and use data effectively to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity within the area of responsibility.
- Skill in interpersonal relationships in leading and dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers, both within and outside the biomedical engineering program, to include conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.
- Ability to apply appropriate scientific methods in the design and execution of basic and applied research in the field of biomedical engineering.
- Ability to coordinate work across multiple settings, e.g., medical centers, universities.
- Ability to convey scientific biomedical engineering concepts and methodology to individuals with diverse levels of technical expertise.
4.
In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs.
Please indicate if you poses the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) for GS-14 and that your resume clearly reflects:
Please indicate if you poses the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) for GS-14 and that your resume clearly reflects:
- Ability to manage overall department resources, i.e., finance, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing at a highly complex medical center or at the VISN level.
- Ability to develop local or VISN policies and/or draft directives related to healthcare technology management.
- Skill in balancing multiple responsibilities, setting priorities, delegating tasks and projects, meeting multiple deadlines, analyzing organizational problems, and developing and implementing effective solutions.
- Ability to analyze complex organizational and operational problems to develop and implement solutions that result in efficient operations, and use data effectively to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity within the area of responsibility.
- Skill in interpersonal relationships leading and dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers, within and outside the biomedical engineering program, to include conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.