Supervisory Healthcare Engineer

Veterans Health Administration • San Antonio, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position supervises the Capital Projects team’s engineering and construction project management at a multi-faceted VA Medical Center and affiliated Community Based Outpatient Clinics. The Supervisory Healthcare Engineer manages the design and construction program to build and renovate hospital and support environments, ensuring a safe, reliable, and precisely controlled operating environment for direct patient care.

The role is the key engineering advisor to, and reports directly to, the Capital Projects Director. It provides authoritative advice on design and construction matters, oversees engineering and construction in and adjacent to operational healthcare environments, and plans, organizes, directs, evaluates, and manages Capital Projects team processes and standards. The supervisor manages hiring, performance, training, and development; communicates agency and local policies and priorities; and delegates work and authority to subordinates.

The position provides technical advice on engineering topics including the Strategic Capital Investment Plan, Capital Asset Inventory, Capital Asset Resource Survey, and deferred maintenance. It supports strategic capital investment planning, discusses proposed capital projects, and develops preliminary designs for major alterations, improvements, and additions. The role implements the Medical Center’s capital improvement program, translating identified needs into engineering requirements and estimates, arranging local completion or recommending projects for agency funding, and researching or analyzing facility and Capital Projects Section issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or Architecture from a qualifying accredited program; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree plus passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination, or current professional registration or licensure as a Professional Engineer or Architect.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade for the GS-13 grade determination.
• Knowledge of data analysis techniques for managing workload, quality, performance, and productivity.
• Knowledge of managing department resources, including finances, space, equipment, supplies, schedules, and staffing.
• Knowledge of supervisory duties, including work assignments, performance evaluations, staff selection, training and development, awards, advancements, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Effective communication skills for managing interpersonal relationships and working with employees, team leaders, labor representatives, and managers.
• Ability to balance responsibilities, set priorities, delegate tasks, meet deadlines, analyze organizational problems, and implement effective solutions.
• Ability to draft or recommend local policies or directives related to healthcare engineering management.
• Ability to recognize and assess evolving scenarios and use initiative, self-direction, and assigned resources to resolve them.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, subject to the stated limited exception for non-citizens under VA policy.
• Must meet applicable application, identification, background/security investigation, onboarding, and seasonal influenza vaccination requirements.
• Must serve a 1- or 2-year trial period, subject to written certification for continued employment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience formulating transition budgets, creating phasing and transition plans, and coordinating building activations with project managers and contract officer’s representatives.
• Experience evaluating workload and demographic data using VSSC to identify future patient healthcare needs and relate them to the VHA Strategic Plan, and developing a supporting Facility Master Plan and functional space layouts.
• Ability to interpret CAD/BIM drawings or create CAD/BIM floor plan files.
• Technical guidance experience in space management.
• Experience initiating investigations and studies to develop planning and design criteria and solve critical design, construction, or operations problems.
• Project management experience, particularly with construction projects and building systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert in designing medical care environments, including hospital building features, automated building management and environmental control systems, and critical utility systems.
• Oversee construction in and adjacent to operational healthcare environments.
• Advise the Capital Projects Director and team on design and construction matters.
• Plan, organize, direct, evaluate, and manage Capital Projects team processes and establish qualitative and quantitative standards.
• Manage personnel functions, including hiring, performance management, training, and development; communicate policies and priorities; and delegate tasks and authority.
• Provide technical advice on the Strategic Capital Investment Plan, Capital Asset Inventory, Capital Asset Resource Survey, deferred maintenance, and other engineering matters.
• Support the Strategic Capital Investment Planning process and participate in discussions of proposed station capital projects.
• Prepare preliminary designs for major alterations, improvements, and additions to support Medical Center programs.
• Implement the Medical Center’s capital improvement program by converting needs into engineering requirements and estimates, arranging local execution, or recommending agency-funded plans.
• Research and analyze problems, issues, and program requirements across the facility and Capital Projects Section.

Benefits

• Comprehensive federal employee benefits package for employees and their families.
• Potential annual leave accrual credit based on prior federal work or military service, subject to request and approval.

What This Job Offers

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