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General Engineer
Pay rate: $80.00 per hour
VA Business Hours: 24 hours a dayClinic or OR Schedule:Schedule7:30 - 4:00 pm,
Place of performance: Michael E. DeBakey VA medical center at 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston TX 77033
Job Description
Provide professional engineering support for planning, scoping, and executing construction, renovation, and infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with VA design guides, NFPA 101, NFPA 99, Joint Commission standards, and other applicable codes. Review design and construction documents from A/E firms for technical adequacy, code compliance, constructability, and impacts on ongoing healthcare operations; provide written review comments and recommendations. Develop and maintain project documentation, including concepts, scopes, cost estimates, schedules, risk registers, and justifications in VA systems such as VSSC, SCIP, and related capital planning tools. Coordinate with clinical services, Facilities Management, Safety, Infection Control, and others to sequence work, plan outages, and mitigate risks to patients and staff during construction. Provide forensic and root-cause analysis of facility system failures or performance issues and recommend corrective actions or capital improvements.
General Engineer must have 5 years experience within discipline in a hospital setting and PE license.
DeliverablesWritten technical reviews and comment matrices for design and construction submittals.Project scope documents, cost estimates , and schedule inputs for projects under their purview for force upload.Risk and mitigation summaries for construction activities affecting patient care areas.
Engineering reports or technical memoranda documenting investigations of system failures and recommended solutions. Project oversight from inception to completion in accordance with VA TIL requirements utilizing experience
Quality Improvement Meetings: The Contractor(s) shall participate in continuous quality improvement activities and meetings with committee participation as required by the VA facility Chief of Engineering in all hands employee meeting, M&O Chief of FMS, or Shop Supervisor.
Measure: Maintains Licensing, Registration, and CertificationPerformance Requirement: Updated licenses, registrations, and certifications shall be provided as they are renewed. Licensing and registration information shall be kept current for all Contractor's nonclinical trades personnel.
Standard: All (100%) licenses, registrations, and certifications for Contractor's nonclinical trades personnel are current and provided to the VA as they are renewed. Acceptable
Quality Level: 100% of licenses, registrations, and certifications for Contractor's nonclinical trades personnel are current and provided upon renewal. No acceptable deviation. Surveillance Method: Periodic Inspection or Random Sampling of licensing and certification records.
Frequency: annuallyMeasure: Mandatory Training Performance Requirement: Contractor shall ensure all nonclinical trades personnel complete all required VA and facility-specific training (e.g., safety, infection control, privacy, cybersecurity, asbestos/lead awareness if applicable) on time per facility policy.
Standard: All (100%) required training is completed on time by Contractor's nonclinical trades personnel.
Acceptable Quality Level: 100% completions Surveillance Method: Periodic Inspection of training records and facility learning management system reports (if applicable).
Frequency: annuallyTravel. Travel if needed will utilized with Government Vehicles within the Houston area and VA personnel to accompanyMaterial Other Direct Costs. Contractor will be dressed in proper uniform attire, to distinguish between staff.
License: Personnel assigned by the Contractor to perform the services covered by this contract shall have a current license to discipline in a, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia when services are performed onsite on VA property.All licenses held by the key personnel working on this contract shall be full and unrestricted licenses.Contractor's subcontractor(s) who have current, full and unrestricted licenses in one or more states, but who have, or ever had, a license restricted, suspended, revoked, voluntarily revoked, voluntarily surrendered pending action or denied upon application will not be considered for the purposes of this contract.
All subcontractors must have a minimum of 5 years' experience in trade with commercial or hospital experience.
Technical Proficiency:Personnel shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently. Contractor shall provide documents upon request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the discipline and/or services performed. Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all Contractor's subcontractor(s) and Contractor's subcontractor(s) shall be responsible for abiding by the local, state, and federal codes rules, and regulations (referenced herein) that govern medical staff behavior.
Training (ACLS, BLS, EHR and VA MANDATORY): Personnel shall meet all VA educational requirements and mandatory course requirements; all training must be completed by the contractor's personnel as required by the VA. Other training may become required. VA will communicate any changes to the training requirement to the contractor.
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- Dice Id: 10499709
- Position Id: f2063718155774d17996f04d80686ac2
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