Summary The incumbent serves as an Engineering Technician providing comprehensive technical automation and physical plant engineering support to the facility program, ensuring proper functioning of automated fulfillment systems and ancillary support equipment. Responsibilities These duties include, but are not limited to the following below: Maintains complex, diverse facility and automated utility/system operations to include periodic inspection, preventive maintenance, and repair. Improvises troubleshooting practices an interprets electronic, electrical, and mechanical drawings, specifications and schematics of custom systems. Monitors quality assurance indicators related to forecasting of premature equipment failure rates, mean time between equipment failures (MTBF) as they relate to enhancing patient safety, and the prevention of control of unexpected catastrophic system failures, identifying and implementing protocols to ensure timely recovery of critical equipment and systems. Resolves a variety of unconventional situations arising from software, hardware, and integration programs. Collaborates with production supervisors and end users to optimize fulfillment workflow. Serves as a subject matter authority for automated pharmacy fulfillment system components and ensures that application training is provided to users and support staff. Maintains an equipment inventory and maintenance database used to supply current maintenance information on request. Assists with site preparation, installation, configuration, and integration of healthcare technology and operational control systems for facility, wider-organization, and/or agency wide networked systems, coordinating with vendors and Contracting Officers and procurement or technical issues. Work Schedule: ( Available shifts between ) Monday through Friday 6:00 AM EST to 12:00 AM EST Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: This position is not authorized for telework. Virtual: This is not a remote/ virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Engineering Technician/PD05420A Physical Requirements: This position involves the performance of inspection activities which requires frequent extensive walking, standing, bending, climbing, crouching, reaching and lifting of a variety of moderately heavy items such as large metal lids on storage containers. Work Environment: Work involves various conditions and environments. Some duties required Personal Protective Equipment ( PPE). Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary/trial period 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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) Qualifications To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/03/2025. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities troubleshooting automated system equipment, the usage of various hand tools, soldering equipment and test equipment. Performance of periodic inspections and preventative maintenance and repair of automated systems and equipment. Knowledge of developments and new applications of information technology (hardware, software, telecommunications), emerging technologies and their applications to business processes, and applications and implementation of information systems to meet organizational requirements. Performs periodic inspections, preventive maintenance, and repair of automated systems. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work involves bench work/ field work that may require sitting, walking, standing, bending, lifting, and pushing up to 40 pounds or more and handling of equipment. 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/. Education There is no educational substitution at this grade level. Additional Information Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
