Department: Department Of Veterans Affairs
Agency: Veterans Health Administration
Job Announcement Number: VS-11-476085-ML
SALARY RANGE: $86,260.00 - $112,136.00 /year
OPEN PERIOD: Thursday, May 12, 2011 to Thursday, July 07, 2011
SERIES & GRADE: GS-0858-13
POSITION INFORMATION: Full Time Excepted Service Permanent
DUTY LOCATIONS: 1 vacancy - Portland, OR
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED: United States Citizens
JOB SUMMARY:
Vacancy Identification Number (VIN): 476085 (Include # on all documents)
*AMENDED* This Vacancy has been extended to 7/7/2011*
To fulfill President Lincoln's promise – "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" – by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
As a VA professional, your opportunities are endless. With many openings in the multiple functions of VA, you will have a wide range of opportunities at your fingertips. Not only is it the largest, most technologically advanced integrated health care system in the nation, but we also provide many other services to Veterans through the Benefits Administration and National Cemeteries.
VA professionals feel good about their careers and their ability to balance work and home life. VA offers generous paid time off and a variety of predictable and flexible scheduling opportunities.
KEY REQUIREMENTS:
U. S. Citizenship
Must pass pre-employment examination
English Language Proficiency required
Designated and-or Random Drug Testing required
Background and-or Security Investigation required
Duties
Additional Duty Location Info:
1 vacancy - Portland, OR
The incumbent serves as Biomedical Engineer and Chief, Biomedical Engineering Section completely responsible for the Biomedical Engineering Program at Portland VA Medical Center. This position performs as a working Biomedical Engineer Supervisor, who is in full charge of the Biomedical Engineering Section under Facilities Management Service. The incumbent provides engineering technical expertise, consultation, and guidance in biomedical/clinical engineering matters for this health care system's clinical, medical, and administrative services.
The incumbent is a key member of the Facilities Management Staff, who has direct authority to accomplish assignments affecting health care throughout this facility. The incumbent of the position is considered the authority regarding the health care system's Medical Equipment Management Program. The Supervisory Biomedical Engineer is the professional consultant and advisor on Biomedical Engineering matters to the Chief Engineer and the Facilities Management Officer (FMO), and provides staff support to various program service chiefs in planning their respective curriculum. The incumbent is directly responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring the comprehensive medical equipment management program. He/She is responsible for the management, coordination, and supervision of all Biomedical Section resources to provide responsive and cost effective services to the medical center in support of all medical devices and other equipment and systems. The supervisor employs innovation and technical expertise to develop techniques, protocols, standard operational procedures, and policies, which are often unprecedented, for ensuring that equipment is maintained and used properly and effectively. The incumbent continually monitors, evaluates, and implements changes to the Biomedical program activities, ensuring compliance with all VHA, TJC, NFPA, OSHA, CAP, etc., policies, standards, and regulations. He/She directly supervises the day-to-day operations of the Biomedical Engineering Section. This includes advice on the purchase of new medical electronic equipment by examining the needs of the service involved, developing specifications, and evaluating new devices and systems. In the performance of such evaluations, the Biomedical Engineer utilizes not only his/her professional experience and education, but also his/her understanding of the goals of the medical center and its budgetary constraints. Incumbent then verifies the operational integrity of all such new equipment, and initiates the process necessary to enter this equipment into the preventive maintenance program. The incumbent keeps abreast of the latest techniques in Biomedical Engineering Hospital Management and operations. This position is responsible for developing and implementing the entire medical center's system for physiological monitoring, automation in clinical laboratories, patient resuscitation, computer applications in biomedicine, and medical information systems. Designs new systems to meet the requirements for medical services using conventional and state-of-the-art equipment and components or specifies modifications to existing devices and systems for specific requirements of the medical center. Has overall responsibility for medical engineering development, education, and training, which includes instructing medical and allied health personnel in the utilization of the equipment.
Incumbent initiates and develops programs to reduce malfunctions and provide rapid restoration of service to equipment used for patient monitoring, operating rooms, x-ray, dental, respiratory therapy, clinical laboratory, etc. Such programs consist of reviewing equipment problems with the clinical staff, determining availability of appropriate factory service training and other technical information, arranging for personnel to attend such courses as well as providing them with in-service training, determining when redesign is needed using state-of-the-art techniques, and carrying out such redesign.
Tour of Duty: 7:30am - 4:00pm (M-F)
THIS POSITION IS EXCLUDED FROM THE BARGAINING UNIT
Qualifications and Evaluations
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
U.S. citizenship.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-13 LEVEL: Completion of at least 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower level, and must fully meet the KSAs at that level. In addition, the candidate must demonstrate the following professional KSAs and potential to acquire the assignment specific KSAs designated by an asterisk (*):
*1. Ability to conduct capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
*2. Knowledge of the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training and quality assurance.
3. Knowledge of procurement, acquisition and maintenance of medical equipment.
4. Ability to supervise and communicate effectively with a variety of people from different backgrounds.
5. Ability to research, analyze and prepare written reports, policies and procedures.
SUBSTITUTING EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE: Not Applicable.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
References : VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G38, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER
QUALIFICATION STANDARD, dated February 2009, VA Handbook 5005 available in the local Human Resources Office and OPM Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/IORs/GS0100/0185.htm. ]
Education and/or Experience
(1) Bachelor’s degree: Professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (a) Be in a school of engineering with at least 1 curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or, (b) Include differential and integral calculus, and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in 5 of the following 7 areas of engineering science or physics: (1) statics and/or dynamics; (2) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (3) fluid mechanics and/or hydraulics; (4) thermodynamics; (5) electrical fields and circuits; (6) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); or (7) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR,
(2) Combination of education and experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished: [a] a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering; and [b] a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to 1 of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by 1 of the following:
(1) Professional registration: Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (e.g., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than a 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 not be rated eligible for biomedical engineering positions.
(2) Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners of a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (e.g., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either [a] a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, OR, [b] a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within, or closely related to, the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph 2.b.(1).
Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.
(3) Specified academic courses: Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph 2.b(1).
(4) Related curriculum. Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a 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.)
APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Applicants must, therefore, only report attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html. All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly. *** 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. ***
Veterans' Preference:
When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference on their application or résumé. Applicants claiming preference based on service-connected disability, or based on being the spouse or mother of a disabled or deceased Veteran, must complete an SF 15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference. Veterans who are still in the service may be granted tentative preference on the basis of information contained in their applications, but they must produce a DD Form 214 or other proof prior to appointment to document entitlement to preference. For more information on Veterans' Preference, please visit http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/veterans.aspx.
Physical Requirements. See VA Directive and Handbook 5019.
English Language Proficiency. Biomedical engineers must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with chapter 2, section D, paragraph 5a, this part.
HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:
Your application, résumé and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment. You may also be evaluated based upon the question responses you provide during a structured interview. In responding to structured interview questions you should be sure to cite specific examples of experience, explain exactly what you did, and the outcome.
Benefits and Other Info
BENEFITS:
Working for the Department of Veterans Affairs offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes, in part, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, life insurance, health benefits, thrift savings plan, and participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System. In addition to traditional "dollars and cents" benefits, we offer a range of benefits to help balance work and life. For more information please visit us at http://www4.va.gov/JOBS/Job_Benefits/benefits.asp .
OTHER INFORMATION:
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employees credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. www.getnigeriajob.com
HOW TO APPLY:
To begin the process, click the Apply Online button at the right side of this screen to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the occupational questionnaire. Please ensure you click the Submit My Answers button at the end of the process.
YOU MUST INCLUDE VA FORM 10-2850c IN YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY.
You may upload the completed form to your USAJOBS or Application Manager account if you apply online. Then you can use the uploaded form again and again when applying for future vacancies. Please see this guide (http://www4.va.gov/OHRM/joblistings/uploading-and-using-documents-online.doc) for more information on uploading and re-using the form in your applications. Other required forms and documents can also be saved in your account and used the same way. Applicants are urged to apply online; this process is much easier and faster.
Note: To return to a previously Saved or Incomplete application, just reapply through your account in USAJOBS. Check your account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Login.aspx ) to see the status of your application after applying, including any messages that may have been sent to you.
If you cannot apply online:
Click the following link to view and print the occupational questionnaire: View Occupational Questionnaire.
Print this 1203FX form to provide your response to the occupational questionnaire:
http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/OPM1203fx.pdf .
Fax the completed 1203FX form along with all supporting documents to (478)757-3144. Your 1203FX form must be placed on top of all materials being faxed and will serve as a cover page for your fax transmission.
Keep a copy of your fax receipt in case verification is needed.
To fax supporting documents you are unable to upload:
Complete this cover page http://staffing.opm.gov/pdf/usascover.pdf using the following Vacancy ID: 476085. You must use this fax cover sheet in order for your documents to be matched with your online application.
Fax your documents to (478)757-3144.
The complete Application Package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Thursday, July 07, 2011.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:
You must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
CV or Resume.
VA Form 10-2850c - Application for Associated Health Occupations (Available at http://www.vacareers.va.gov/jobs_download/vha-10-2850c-fill.pdf) (required).
Occupational Questionnaire
Optional Form 306 - Declaration for Federal Employment (Available at http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/of0306.pdf). This is a required form and must be submitted with your
Application.
If prior military service, include all copies of your DD Forms 214 (required). Applicants claiming preference based on service-connected disability, or based on being the spouse or mother of a disabled or deceased Veteran, must also complete and submit an SF 15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference (available at http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/SF15.pdf).
If currently employed in the VA system, include latest SF-50 - Notification of Personnel Action. (required).
AGENCY CONTACT INFO:
Michael Lokrantz
Phone: (503)220-8262x57331
Email: MICHAEL.LOKRANTZ@VA.GOV Agency Information:
VAMC Portland
Department of Veteran Affairs
3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd
Portland, OR 97239
WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT:
After we receive your complete application package (including any required documents), your qualifications will be reviewed to decide if you meet the basic requirements. You will be notified when this decision is made.
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