Engineering Technician

The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a Project Section, Engineering Technician. This position works with a high level of independence, with little or no technical guidance received from the Supervisor and/or Chief, Engineering Service. Assignments are broad in scope and performed at both the Medical Center and the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's) under its control, with goals to be achieved outlined.

Major duties: Initiate all required correspondence pertaining to supplemental agreements, specification changes, etc. Responsible for all aspects of service contract oversight, including initial development, and installation. Inspect construction work, along with Medical Center project work to assure conformance with plans, specifications, and applicable codes. Maintains timely progress records, logs, reports, and documents. Prepare project documents for submission to the Network requesting authorization and funding. This includes detailed project description; justification; selection methodology analysis, prioritizing, and scoring; workload and space criteria analysis; environmental impact analysis; estimating project costs, including technical services, construction, impact, equipment, recurring and non-recurring expenses, and contingencies; and other documents necessary to support the validity of the project. Administer contracts for compliance, evaluates submissions, and processes payment applications and invoices within required time frames. Prepare plans, specifications, and estimates for complex projects, which include multi-disciplinary architectural, fire and safety, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, telecommunication, analog and digital electronics, and hazardous material abatement design. Serve as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and administers contracted projects to ensure contractor compliance with drawings, specifications, regulations, and policy. Perform field investigations and measurements to gain first-hand knowledge and to gather architectural and engineering data necessary to document conditions for design, construction, and engineering records. Serve as the OSHA certified "Competent Person" to ensure construction work areas and practices are managed in accordance with the safety standards. Assists in conducting engineering, structural and land surveys. He/she does the major portion of the development of initial plans and technical specifications for maintenance, repair, alterations, additions, modernizations, and new construction projects relative to the physical plan of the VA Health Care System and all outpatient clinics including roads, grounds, structures, buildings, utilities, distribution systems, building service equipment, operations equipment, furnishings, and other physical property. Research requests for engineering work. Visits site and discusses request with the requestor to assure understanding of work desired and to obtain information on existing conditions that would affect or be affected by the work. Prepares working drawings of proposed work and/or existing conditions complete with accurate field measurements, elevations, and other pertinent information and conditions. Makes engineering studies to determine the feasibility and requirements of proposed projects. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Engineering Technician/PD24014A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

There is no educational substitution at this grade level. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.