Supervisory Biomedical Engineer

Veterans Health Administration • Temple, TX

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisory Biomedical Engineer leads the hospital-wide Biomedical Engineering Program for the Central Texas VA Healthcare System, serving services across the campus and modern outpatient clinics. The position provides hospital leadership in Healthcare Technology Management and reports administratively to the Chief, Healthcare Technology Management.

The incumbent consults on Healthcare Technology Management, develops strategies and policies, oversees technical projects, and evaluates whether work should be performed in-house or through contracts. The role manages complex biomedical equipment systems and programs, including performance, safety, and human-factors specifications; installation and maintenance procedures; preventive and corrective maintenance; staff training; and compatibility of electrical, networking, placement, and design requirements with the patient and hospital environment.

As a facility-level supervisor, the incumbent manages staff and department resources, including finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing. Supervisory duties include setting standards, evaluating performance, handling leave and employee concerns, recommending personnel actions, and identifying training needs. The role also supports regulatory compliance, medical-device cybersecurity and isolation, quality assurance, and maintenance activities that ensure equipment is available for patient care. The full performance level is GS-13.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship, subject to the stated VA exception for non-citizens when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
• A bachelor's degree or higher in engineering from a school with at least one ABET-accredited professional engineering curriculum, or Certified Clinical Engineer (CCE) certification and a bachelor's degree in another field.
• At least one year of experience equivalent to the next lower level, with the KSAs required at that level.
• Knowledge of managing department resources, including finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing.
• Ability to draft or recommend local policies or directives related to healthcare technology management.
• Ability to balance responsibilities, set priorities, delegate tasks, meet deadlines, analyze organizational problems, and implement solutions.
• Ability to analyze organizational and operational problems and use data to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity.
• Interpersonal skills for leading and working with employees, team leaders, and managers, including conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Ability to meet applicable physical requirements; the work is primarily sedentary, with some walking, standing, travel between work areas, and lifting or carrying items weighing less than 15 pounds.
• Compliance with VA pre-employment requirements, including background/security investigation and physical examination; drug testing applies to selected applicants in testing-designated positions.
• Must meet applicable application, onboarding, identification, and seasonal influenza vaccination requirements.
• Must serve a one- or two-year trial period, subject to written certification for continued employment.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate of the Biomedical Engineer TCF program.
• Three years of experience in NAC ordering.
• Knowledge of medical servers and networks.
• Demonstrated medical equipment project management experience.
• Medical 3D printing experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a consultant to the Medical Center on Healthcare Technology Management.
• Develop innovative strategies and provide technical input and oversight, including analyzing the costs and benefits of in-house work versus contracting.
• Organize and coordinate projects with broad scope that affect medical and administrative staff.
• Develop and improve medical equipment systems with Project Engineering staff, including performance, safety, and Human Factors Engineering specifications.
• Direct the Biomedical Engineering department in establishing equipment installation and maintenance procedures.
• Evaluate functional and operational requirements of medical and engineering systems and confirm requirements for their intended application.
• Develop policies and guidelines for the installation, maintenance, safety, and application of biomedical instrumentation.
• Help implement preventive maintenance programs for medical equipment and oversee preventive and corrective maintenance workloads.
• Provide initial and ongoing staff training and modify training in response to identified user errors.
• Manage department resources, including finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing.
• Set performance standards, conduct appraisals, counsel employees, address complaints and grievances, schedule and approve leave, and initiate or recommend personnel actions.
• Analyze personnel and organizational problems, take corrective action, and promote employee participation in management goals.
• Ensure electrical, networking, placement, and design requirements are compatible with the patient and hospital environment.
• Support compliance with JCAHO, OSHA, CAP, CARF, NFPA, NRC, and other applicable regulatory agencies.
• Provide technical consultation and coordination for Biomedical Engineering staff, including support for networked medical devices.
• Recommend internal and external program policies and contribute to long-range planning and decisions about program changes.
• Assess opportunities to reduce operating costs while maintaining program effectiveness, including labor-saving devices, automation, and process improvements.
• Manage compliance and reporting for medical-device cybersecurity and isolation.
• Manage financial resources supporting quality assurance and medical-equipment maintenance activities.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family, with eligibility dependent on position type.
• Potential credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work or military service, subject to request and approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager