Summary
This position is located at the Ann Arbor Healthcare System and serves under the supervision of the Supervisory General Engineer. The incumbent is responsible for professional engineering support to all construction management activities. Including the duties of a COR on construction projects, training facility staff on technical issues and assisting the Supervisory General Engineer, Construction Management Section on the completion of technical and administrative issues.
Responsibilities
Works independently interpreting policies, established goals and developing deadlines. Develops initial plans for proposed new construction, alterations and additions to existing buildings, grounds and utility systems by conducting engineering surveys, determining requirements, preparing architectural and mechanical plans. Will have a direct role in managing the Facilty's Capital Asset Inventory (CAI) database to be used in tracking capital assets, identifying gaps and for long range planning purposes. Will have a direct role in (1) preparing SCIP (Strategic Capital Investment Plan) submittals to the VISN used to establish long term strategic project priorities; (2) modifying the SCIP submittals as changes arise; and (3) presenting the Facility's SCIP plan to VISN Chief Engineers and the VISN Capital Asset Manager (CAM). Determines systems requirements, reconnaissance, location and prepares designs, specifications and estimates. Applies a broad knowledge of methods, precedents, and standards to significantly diverse and intense work complexities. Provides professional advice to peers, subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers. Reviews or directs the review of plans, specifications, and analyses of design as submitted by subordinate engineers. Performs scheduling and layout of operations, and inspection and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction. Provides guidance, development and coordination for the planning, design, and oversight of maintenance projects. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am to 4:00pm
May be required to work some evenings and weekends.
Position Description Title/PD#: General Engineer/PD5918-A
Physical Requirements: The duties of the position require visits to all areas of the medical center environment. Physical agility and manual dexterity are essential in that the incumbent must be able to climb, lift, push, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and work in close quarters during project inspections and gathering of project design information. Inspections of hazardous environments require use of respirators and protective clothing. Incumbent spends a significant portion of each day conducting field inspections; may often be required to personally oversee delicate or dangerous work in the field for long hours each day, such as overhead crane work, confined space entry, excavation and trenching, and high voltage field connections.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. All Professional Engineering Positions, 0800
Individual Occupational Requirements
Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure-- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than 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 be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses-- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's 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.) Specialized Experience: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be credible, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience include: Developing initial plans for proposed new construction, alterations and additions to existing buildings, grounds and utility systems by conducting engineering surveys, determining requirements, preparing architectural and mechanical plans and the original and revised specifications estimates, justifications, plans; structural designs and construction procedures for mechanical, electrical and building construction under formal contracts. Advises subordinate personnel on methods and procedures to be used in special studies on highly complex projects. Plans specific objectives for the program, including required innovations and improvisations. Prepares detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding and bid evaluation. Plans specific objectives for the maintenance project. Prepares detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining maintenance funding and bid evaluation.