Interior Designer

Full Job Description

This position is located at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Network - Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 (VISN 6), VA Medical Center- Durham, NC, within the Engineering Service.

The position serves as an Interior Designer, performing interior design duties and responsibilities and providing all interior design services at the facility.

Please read the entire announcement for application requirements. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/16/2026.

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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-9. 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: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Preparing drawings and documents relative to the design of interior spaces, managing projects, developing cost estimates, evaluating bid proposals, reviewing construction documents, participating in on-site construction visits, Responds to requests and complaints related to interior design functions.

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: Work can vary from seated at a desk in front of a computer to extensive walking throughout the Medical Center (interior and exterior) and visitation to construction sites.

Work may require some lifting (<251bs.), light furniture moving/rearranging, carrying catalogs/artwork/samples etc.

and travel/driving as needed to showrooms, furniture dealers and satellite facilities. Dexterity is required related to duties performed in drafting, sketching and writing.

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 duties include, but are not limited too: Provides complete, from concept to installation, interior design services for a medical center and satellite facilities.

Provides plans, consultation, advice, specifications, and designs for all spaces involved in new construction and/or renovation.

Responsible for the design of patient-friendly environments which are conducive to healing, aesthetically appealing, safety and code compliant, with clear and understandable maneuverability, all within the fiscal requirements set down by Medical Center Leadership.

Develops and maintains a schedule of short and long range interior improvement projects.

Checks on work in progress and review completed work to see that instruction on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met.

Keeps in touch with the status and progress of work, and makes day-to-day adjustments in accordance with established priorities, obtain assistance from the Project Manager on problems that may arise, such as backlogs which cannot be disposed of promptly.

Amend or reject work not meeting established standards, referring questions or matters not covered by standards and problems in meeting performance standards to Project Manager.

Responds to requests and complaints related to interior design functions. Advises supervisor of suitable responses to deficiencies in design functions where applicable.

Keeps Project Manager informed on expected time of completion of work, and maintains records of work accomplishments and time expended. Prepares production reports as requested.

Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques and makes available written instructions, reference materials, and supplies.

Gives on the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices.

Maintains current knowledge of interior design standards, procedures, policies, directives, and answer questions of interior designers.

Work Schedule: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: This position is not eligible for Telework Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Interior Designer/PD06550A