Summary This position is located in the Systems Redesign section of Clinical Operations Service at the VA Medical Center in Detroit, MI. The Industrial Engineer leads transformative quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency improvement efforts and serves as a project manager for large, complex, improvement projects impacting hospital wide healthcare delivery systems. Responsibilities THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION Major duties include, but are not limited to: Conducting studies and analyses of work systems and processes and provides guidance to facility management and leadership teams to effect improvement in mission, effectiveness, resource utilization and cost savings; Applying principles of human factors engineering to solving patient and human work flow issues and performs human factors engineering (HFE) analysis of patient and human work flow data including medical devices, medical software, and healthcare systems, and environment of care; Evaluating health systems processes using statistical process control and other TQM tools; Researching problems that impact the quality and efficiency of patient care delivery, making recommendations for corrective actions, and following up to ensure effective implementation and sustainability; Performing evaluations and analyses of areas targeted for improvement to assess program effectiveness and current status and to identify areas requiring management attention and systems enhancement; Analyzing and evaluating systems by reviewing reports, available data, studies, projects, and information provided by managers, clinicians, and support personnel in VA facilities, contractors, and other agencies; Identifying existing or potential problem areas and recommending necessary corrective action or redesign; Coordinating ongoing data collection and information analysis and uses knowledge of ACA, HFE, and System Redesign principles to determine organizational performance and functioning of hospital systems; Using available data to determine current performance and developing and implementing local performance/project measures as needed to assess current status and determine areas targeted for improved flow/access; Completing a variety of administrative and reporting functions in support of the work of the Systems Redesign program; Completing administrative briefings and technical reports in a timely manner; Developing and/or assisting with training, education, and orientation of new staff and providing instruction to others through formal classroom instruction and/or small group mentoring; Contributing human factors engineering expertise and perspective to patient and human work flow matters; Performing other duties as needed. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8am until 4:30pm. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Do you possess professional certification in Lean Six Sigma. AND in addition to the Basic Requirement and Selective Placement Factor, applicants must meet the following requirements. NOTE: We will not make assumptions regarding experience. Your resume must clearly support the experience required to be creditable. The Duties and Qualifications in the announcement, and the online questionnaire includes detailed position criteria. Basic Requirement: Degree (bachelor's or higher) in 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 the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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 & 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. Education will not be credited without documentation. OR 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 professional 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), 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. Appropriate documentation must be provided at the time of application. This will not be credited without documentation. ~OR~ Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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. Appropriate documentation must be provided at the time of application. This will not be credited without documentation. ~OR~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 above in question number one (1). Copies of pertinent transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application. Education will not be credited without documentation. ~OR~ Related Curriculum - Successful completion of 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 you have 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. Copies of pertinent transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application. Education will not be credited without documentation. ~AND~ In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement, you must also meet the following additional experience requi