Engineering Technician

This position is located at the Alaska VA Healthcare System (AVAHS), Anchorage, AK, Facilities Management Service (FMS). The primary purpose of this position is to participate in the development of comprehensive facility maintenance strategic plans and contract vehicles, perform quality assurance evaluator (QAE) functions, and perform contract administration functions related to the surveillance and inspection of services provided by maintenance and repair, etc.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/19/2024.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-08. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

Basic Requirement: All applicants, regardless of grade level must meet minimum requirements. To be acceptable, experience in a trade or craft when the work provided intensive knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, methods, and precedents. Examples are trade positions with substantial developmental, test, or design responsibilities such as: Planner and estimator who analyzed designs for production purposes. OR Certification: Engineering technicians may be certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies, an organization sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Certification by the Institute will be helpful as a measure of the technician's quality of experience.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-08 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: applying technical engineering support using standard construction methods, techniques, and practices to develop drawings for architectural, mechanical, electrical, radiology, water treatment, and telephone equipment utilizing Computer-Aided Design Drafting (CADD) for cost estimates, preliminary designs, and structural maintenance. OR,
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have two full years of graduate education or a master's degree. OR,
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Clerical
• Contract Administration
• Organizational Awareness

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements:
Physical demands are significant. The incumbent must be able to climb, push, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and reach during normal inspection procedures. The incumbent must also be able to move furniture using supplied lifting devices.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Responsibilities:

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assist in planning, engineering management, operation, and overall coordination; and for providing advice, assistance and information on all matters related to assigned conventional projects of moderate complexity
• Coordination of project work requirements with other technical and administrative elements within the agency
• Provides engineering services associated with job order contracting and construction to include evaluating requirements; establishing scope of work; reviewing design criteria; and estimating design time and costs; accomplishing study/design requirements; and preparing/coordinating design packages for renovations, repairs and or alterations.
• Reviews and checks technical aspects such as drawings, specifications, quantities, costs, accuracy, completeness, and conformity with requirements for planned projects where precedence has already been established
• Monitors drawings and the methods used in their preparation. Attends meetings with pertinent personnel to evaluate progress and reviews completed work
• Participates in projects of a broad and complex nature requiring approval of advanced engineering concepts by senior staff members
• Uses a range of analytical techniques, statistical methods, industrial, and quality engineering tools to collect baseline information that identifies limitations or potential improvements
• Serves as a central point-of-contact for status of all engineering work requests of a short-term nature
• Develops statistical data to provide management with customer support trends; maintains a working file of reference material used in the analysis process; and compiles information to improve planning and estimating techniques.
• Plans workload, sets work priorities and deadlines, and coordinates work operations among services and facilities to complete operations or provide services.
• Analyzes work requirements and determines staff resources, equipment, and other resources needed to accomplish work assignments, and makes adjustments and changes to increase productivity as deemed appropriate
• Oversees contracted engineers, architects, and construction contractor's work.
• Reviews, interprets and implements Quality Assurance Evaluator/Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (QAE/COTR) directives and requirements
• Interact with facility engineers, outside contractors and engineers to prepare detailed cost estimates for competitively bid construction projects, maintenance and repair work.
• Lead the furniture acquisition and installation process

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00 am-4:30 pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Engineering Technician/PD50277A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required