Duties

Healthcare Engineers provide overarching professional services focusing on engineering and/or architecture involved in all aspects of the healthcare delivery processes and systems. They ensure the appropriate infrastructure, facilities and equipment are available for the medical mission. Healthcare Engineers are a specialized subset of more broadly defined professional engineering or architect occupations with general or specialty area degrees (e.g., general engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, architecture, architectural engineering, etc.). Healthcare Engineers collaborate with biomedical engineers to provide seamless integration of medical technology into the patient care environment. Healthcare Engineers specify the spatial layouts, infrastructure and environmental requirements to enable medical equipment integration into the healthcare facility. Healthcare Engineers must understand functional relationships in how clinicians, patients and supplies circulate within the treatment space where the medical equipment is located. Using healthcare engineering knowledge, they plan and design custom site preparation requirements for medical equipment, including installation.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determines requirements, reconnaissance, location, and prepares designs, specifications and estimates. Applies a broad knowledge of the conventional methods, precedents, and standards. Complex situations occur requiring adaptation or modification of precedents typical of the work environment.
• Conducts investigations to develop improved design of materials and methods. Explores background information (literature, reports, and discussions with others having specialized knowledge of the issue) and consults with supervisor in evaluating information and selecting approaches to study the issue.
• Prepares designs characterized by a variety of conditions.
• Prepares original designs and preliminary and final layouts.
• Coordinates assignments with other agency engineers and architects responsible for related features.
• Reviews architect-engineer plans and specifications for adequacy and feasibility.
• Provides professional advice to peers, subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers.
• Provides professional advisory services to managers and administrators. Advice covers complex situations that require adaptation or modification of precedents typical of the work environment.
• Conducts investigations to obtain factual information pertaining to the issue.
• Explores background information (literature, reports, and discussions with others having specialized knowledge of the issue) and consults with supervisor in evaluating information and in presenting the information in an effective manner.
• Provides professional oversight and/or project management for construction or maintenance efforts.
• Performs scheduling and layout of operations, and inspection and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction.
• Uses originality to develop and modify methods, techniques, and procedures, in discerning new patterns of phenomena, and in correlating and substantiating already developed hypotheses.
• Develops competitive bidding cost estimates for a variety of projects of multiple-use nature, or projects in different geographic locations thus presenting different physical or cultural considerations.
• Investigates a variety of problems experienced in construction requiring modification in the original design.
• Coordinates with the designer and contractor in making design changes.
• Assures quality control and adequacy of contractor's operations and confers with contractor to obtain corrective action.
• Reviews contractor's progress charts and conducts field surveys to verify fulfillment of obligations.
• Administers payments to the contractor.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Telework: As determined by the agency policy.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 55136-O, 55137-O, 55138-O, 55139-O
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required