Deputy Chief Engineering Service (Supervisory Healthcare Engineer)

Full Job Description

This position serves as the Deputy Chief, Engineering Service Line with responsibility for the professional Engineering programs such as Maintenance and Repair, Utility Plant Operations, Energy Management and Conservation Program, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Service Support for entire Facility to OSEMS , Vehicle Fleet, Grounds, Capital Planning, and Construction Project Management, including outlying Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/03/2026.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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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: 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 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), 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.

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.

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.

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: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Communication Conflict Management General Engineering Lead or Supervise 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: The duties of the position require visits to all areas of the medical center environment.

Physical agility and manual dexterity are essential in that the incumbent must be able to climb, lift, push, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and work in close quarters during project inspections and gathering of project design information.

Inspections of hazardous environments require the use of respirators and protective clothing.

Incumbent spends a significant portion of each day conducting field inspections; may often be required to personally oversee delicate or dangerous work in the field for long hours each day, such as overhead crane work, confined space entry, excavation and trenching, and high voltage field connections.

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/.

Major Duties:

The Deputy Chief of Engineering Service plans and develops short and long-range programs for the overall use of personnel, financial, space and other resources to accomplish the mission of all HCS.

Incumbent provides assistance to the Chief in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and evaluating the Engineering program and coordinating activities with other administrative and clinical departments in the medical center.

Monitors the service's fiscal activity and has Fund Control Point Official authority.

The Assistant Chief will restrict orders, prioritize, and make recommendations to the Chief when funding is limited.

Supports management programs as they apply to Engineering Service, prepares correspondence/reports as required by local directives, VISN, Central Office, federal, state or metro governments as well as assures that subordinate supervisors effectively carryout policies to achieve management objectives.

Provides immediate supervision to the following section supervisors: the Operations Manager, GS-12, (plant operations and the maintenance/repair of buildings, grounds, and medical equipment); the Supervisory General Engineer, Projects Section, GS-13; and the Supervisory Interior Designer, GS-12.

Responsible for setting priorities, and provides instruction and/or technical advice as required.

Reviews and updates the Chief regarding staffing, workload status, and timeliness of completion of tasks for the above sections.

Monitors the Equipment and Utility Management Program to ensure correct implementation, documentation and reporting.

Training will be provided to all hospital personnel as needed and policies, forms, or operating procedures will be developed to correct program deficiencies.

Approves leave of subordinate supervisors, reviews and conducts personnel actions and addresses personnel problems referred by subordinate supervisors.

Incumbent determines training needs of staff and provides arrangements for its accomplishment, sets performance standards, and makes formal appraisals of subordinate work performance.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Deputy Chief Engineering Service (Supervisory Healthcare Engineer)/PD000000 Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized to highly qualified individuals PCS Relocation: May be authorized to highly qualified individuals