Supervisory General Engineer
What you'd do
Serves as a Senior Engineer Team Lead responsible for the management of major lease construction of VA facilities within the Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), Office of Real Property. Design and construction projects are major renovations, modernization, or new construction for highly specialized medical facilities, nursing homes, energy centers, cemeteries, and administrative facilities designed and constructed to support the Department in the accomplishment of its mission
Major duties
Provides positions managing, supervising, leading, and/or performing professional engineering and scientific work. This position requires knowledge and skills in two or more professional engineering series within the Engineering and Architecture Group. Oversee and monitor ongoing lease design and construction activities to ensure completion within the contract terms and conditions, time, and budget. The major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Manages a staff comprised of a matrix of engineers and architectural specialties. Monitors various ongoing construction activities and schedules for conformance with phasing contract provisions, and contract specifications. Conducts reviews of contractor's cost breakdown and reviews submittal's on contractor's proposed equipment and materials. Interact closely with the Project Manager and Critical Path Method staff to make U time due to unanticipated events (weather, delays in material shipments, unanticipat1 site work problems). Works closely with local and state authorities, utility company representatives, and headquarters staff. Assures that the project progresses on schedule. Identifies potential problems in submissions and coordinates comments from other professionals in a formal response to Architectural/Engineering (A/E) firms Administers and oversees on-site coordination of work between prime, subcontractors and utility companies. Manages, supervises, and authorizes payment for services performed under VA-retained services contracts Monitors customer satisfaction through informal and formal means, including week meetings with the Director regarding construction progress. Keeps current with the latest developments in the fields of architecture, engineering landscape architecture, and construction trades, new construction materials and techniques as they apply to large scale construction. Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm, with flexibility required to accommodate construction activities. Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory General Engineer/PD1610574 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Required
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/08/2026. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements: All Professional Engineering Positions have Individual Occupational Requirements. Applicants must meet the basic requirements listed below. 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 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), 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. 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. 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. 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.) In addition to the Individual Occupational Requirements listed above, applicants must meet the specialized experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Developing strategies and plans for providing continuous, high quality, professional, efficient and effective engineering expertise needed to support the construction of major lease projects; Providing oversight, direct supervision and authority that is closer to mission execution where resolution to operational issues can be expedited in a timelier fashion and managing resources and workload ensuring proper staffing levels for all projects; Taking ownership of supporting issues, judging situations rationally and objectively, considering risks associated with decisions, and proposing viable alternatives in deciding on a course of action to solve day-to-day coverage and/or technical problems. 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/. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications: . Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
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