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Healthcare Engineer
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 46 days ago
On-site Iowa City, IA $99K – $129K Apply by Aug 10, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ EngineeringHealthcareTrades
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The position serves as Energy Manager and Staff Engineer at an assigned Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System. This position performs project planning, produces designs, manages designs, manages construction, and provides project administration for construction projects and leases.
What You'll Do
- →Manages healthcare engineering project design and administers construction in accordance with VA policies and procedures, VA Design Guides, VA Design Manuals, VA Master Specifications and related industry codes and standards.
- →Performs healthcare engineering project construction management and post project activities while ensuring continuity of building and utility services for medical facility operations.
- →Assists in development and implementation of the environment of care program that meets current Joint Commission, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), College of American Pathologists (CAP), NFPA, and VA requirements, particularly as it relates to construction safety and infection control.
- →The incumbent implements energy conservation initiatives and prepares project submission documents for cost effective energy conservation retrofit projects.
- →Monitor utility systems components looking for significant changes in consumption rates or replacement quantities.
- →Evaluate data compiled from the Building Automation System (BAS), looking for trends, such as under and over utilized cooling or heating hydronic and steam flows, air flows and high or low system static pressures.
- →Monitor control and alarm set points within the BAS.
- →Work with energy plant personnel to monitor/improve efficiency of boiler and chiller operations.
- →Monitor natural gas and fuel oil prices to determine when utilizing alternate fuel such as fuel oil in facility boilers is of economic benefit to the facility.
- →Evaluate existing energy savings systems, such as glycol loops, heat wheels and solar panels and recommending appropriate operational changes and/or preventative maintenance to optimize performance.
- →Review and monitor service contracts and contractor performance for such contracted services associated with water treatment for boilers and chillers, preventative maintenance services for HVAC controls, boilers, chillers, air handlers and other utility systems equipment for scope appropriateness, contractor performance and billing accuracy.
- →Manage the building HVAC automation and energy management system(s) and utility metering initiatives (electrical, water, etc.) ensuring proper use, maintenance, expansion, and administration.
- →Monitor Commissioning (Cx) and Retro-Cx contracts to ensure optimization and high level performance of facility building service equipment/real property installed equipment (BSE/RPIE).
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 86c9504d-4d03-4313-ac88-42adb443cf4b
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