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https://www.usajobs.gov/job/834227800

Salary: $64,019 - $101,798 per year

2 vacancies in the following location: Salt Lake City, UT

  • Appointment type: Permanent
  • Work schedule: Full-time


This position performs project planning, produces designs, manages designs, manages construction, and provides construction administration for Minor Construction Projects, Station Level Projects, and Leases, including all areas and aspects at an assigned medical center and Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC)'s.

***Once the two year program is completed, there will be potential for a transfer to a position with a promotion potential of GS-12***


Duties

The Technical Career Field (TCF) is a national workforce development program within VHA that was designed to replenish technical staff in critically identified positions. The TCF career fields represent those technical fields where VA-specific knowledge and experience is desirable for success in the field. Individuals selected follow a formal training plan for two years during which they are trained, coached, and supervised by a preceptor. Preceptors are selected annually, through an extensive application process, for their technical expertise, their commitment to training and the suitability of their facility as a training location. *Selectees will be required to sign Mobility, Training, and Continued Service Agreements.

This is a developmental position leading to a GS-09, performing assignments intended to broaden skills and provide practical experience leading to progressively more complex assignments performed under progressively less supervision. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher level work, and availability of funds.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Provides guidance, development and coordination for the planning, design, and oversight of maintenance projects.
  • Develops competitive bidding cost estimates for a variety of maintenance projects of multiple-use nature, or projects in different geographic locations thus presenting different physical or cultural considerations.
  • Administers payments to the contractor.
  • Oversees, directs, or administers the development, production, and or maintenance of materials, components, equipment, or other systems or subsystems.
  • Conducts and/or provides professional advisory services pertaining to the observation, examination, measurement, analysis, mapping and description of physical and cultural features and phenomena.


Work Schedule: Monday through Friday. Hours will be determined by the needs of Facilities Management leadership
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 55052A and 55053A