Supervisory Healthcare Engineer (cams)

Supervisory Healthcare Engineer - Capital Asset Manager

This position serves as the Supervisory Healthcare Engineer - Capital Asset Manager (CAM), Capital Asset Management Office. The CAM manages the Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) Healthcare Engineering program and its significant segment of the broad scoped national program, which supports and directly affects the multi-billion-dollar operation of real property real property agreements and capital investments of the administration's healthcare and non-healthcare facilities. Responsibilities As the Supervisory General Engineer, the incumbent is a key managerial and technical advisor to the Chief Engineer. Duties include, but are not limited to: Serves as a Program Director or Senior Program Manager within the VHA HEFP Office or as the Engineering and Capital Program Manager at the regional/VISN level. Makes decisions and actions that influence and guide industry policies and practices. Serve as a policy and technical expert not only within VHA and VA but also educate and advise OGAs, industry, professional societies and other national organizations in enhancing the accomplishment of VHA and community healthcare missions. Counsels and advise senior and executive leadership on policies, healthcare facility operations, emerging/available technologies, programmatic impacts (initiatives, regulatory and statutory) and management of human capital (professional engineering and trades and crafts). Provides authoritative technical interpretations of policies, regulations, codes and standards. They formulate operational and multi-year strategic budgets and staffing requirements. Establishes technical competency requirements and oversees the national level educational program initiatives which include commercial-off-the shelf course assessments, custom course development and negotiation of intra-departmental agreements. Knowledge of a range of specialized areas in general engineering sufficient to originate concepts and effect new developments applicable to emerging functions of a national magnitude and with long-term purposes. Serves as technical and administrative policy subject matter expert and as instructors/educators. Reviews and concurs on congressional, media and general business correspondence from facilities, VISNs, other Program Offices (within VHA and VA), Office of the Under Secretary for Health and the Office of the Secretary addressing healthcare facility policies, operations or associated capital investments. Oversees workload analyses and determine national program support needs to assure current and future mission directives and work product expectations are met. Establishes contract scopes, contract budgets, designate contract managers and review subordinate staff developed work requirements and performance assessment criteria. In many cases contracts are complex, multimillion dollar, provide a broad range of work products and services and are of national scope. The incumbent directs contractor work assignments on non-delegated contracts and reviews subordinates on management of delegated contracts for VA, VHA, OGAs and other corporate boards, councils and committees. Ability to effectively supervise a wide variety of subordinates to include interview candidates for positions; recommend appointments. Anticipates, develops and implements strategies in meeting a national healthcare system's short term and long-term strategic goals in a highly fluid environment. Develops national policy and adapt/apply across a national healthcare system. Recognizes and assess evolving scenarios, utilizing initiative, self-direction and assigned resources to affect resolutions. For all supervisory assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity, difficulty, range of variety and be performed by the incumbent as a major duty at least 25% of the time. The incumbent must supervise staff for at least 25% of the time, administratively and technically at the full performance grade level or below.