Healthcare Project Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Healthcare Project Engineer (GS range: 7–12)

• Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm

Description

Develop concepts and designs, manage design and construction, and provide construction administration for healthcare facility projects such as minor construction, non-recurring maintenance, station-level, and lease projects. Determine facility and off-site project requirements, evaluate and mitigate risks to patients and staff (including temporary means and methods), and ensure compliance with healthcare codes, regulations, and safety standards. Maintain and track project information in VA systems and support engineering discipline reviews and design submissions.

Responsibilities

• Determine healthcare project requirements for the medical center and associated locations based on guidelines, standards, regulatory requirements, and mission priorities.

• Evaluate approaches to meet requirements, identify project risks, and develop risk-mitigation strategies.

• Assess temporary means and methods to reduce risk to patients and staff while maintaining standard medical care.

• Ensure compliance with environmental, safety, and security standards.

• Coordinate engineering work and develop construction phasing to minimize risk and impact to patient care operations.

• Perform engineering discipline reviews to support construction document reviews and preparation.

• Conduct in-depth design submission reviews for healthcare code compliance and referenced regulations.

• Create initial concept documents and maintain project information in VA database systems (e.g., VSSC, PTR, SCIP), tracking status and changes.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary with regular salary increases

• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days annually (13–26 annual leave, 13 sick leave, and 11 federal holidays)

• Parental leave: Up to 12 weeks paid after 12 months

• Childcare subsidy: Possible eligibility after 60 days (income-based)

• Retirement: Traditional federal pension and federal 401K with up to 5% contributions

• Insurance: Health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care

• Telework: Ad-hoc based on supervisory discretion

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Selective Service registration (for males born after 12/31/1959)

• Proficiency in written and spoken English

• Background/security investigation required

• Complete online onboarding and pre-employment requirements (including I-9 acceptable documents)

• Pass pre-employment physical evaluation

• Seasonal influenza vaccination required for VA Health Care Personnel

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or Architecture (ABET-accredited) OR FE exam passing evidence OR current PE/Architect licensure/registration

• Demonstrate KSAs aligned to the assigned GS grade level (GS7–GS12), including ability to interpret codes/regulations and support healthcare engineering compliance