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The incumbent performs as a Supervisory Biomedical Engineer for the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program at the Kansas City VAMC, a large, 1b complexity medical center. The Kansas City VAMC has 157 beds and 8 CBOCs serving more than 50,000 veterans. The facility is supported by $47million inventory of medical equipment. HTM Service oversees all medical equipment systems.
Major duties include but not limited to:
- Apply advanced knowledge of principles, theories, concepts, and practices of biomedical engineering. Keep abreast of changes in technology and utilize the information gained in the solution of biomedical engineering problems to meet operational needs of multiple facilities.
- Ability to directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
- Directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines, senior management, VHA Central Office, and VISN staff.
- Has responsibility supervising technical staff, including lower-level engineers, biomedical engineering technicians, and other staff typically found at a university affiliated tertiary care facility (complexity level 1,) with one or more subordinate biomedical engineers. In this assignment, supervisory biomedical engineers at the facility level will have notable ongoing responsibilities, supporting VISN biomedical engineering initiatives, and/or notable ongoing responsibilities as assigned by the Healthcare Technology Management Program Office.
- Knowledge of the management of overall department resources, i.e., finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing at the local level or at the VISN level.
- Draft and/or make recommendations to policies and /or directives related to healthcare technology management in scope of organizational objectives spanning from multiple facilities, VISN or national.
- Sets priorities, responsibilities, meets multiple deadlines, analyze organizational problems, delegate tasks, and develop and implement effective solutions.
- Supporting an equipment management program that meets current Joint Commission, FDA, CAP, CARF, NFPA, and VA requirements.
- Develop and implement solutions resulting in efficient operations and use data efficiently to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity.
- Leading and dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers, within and outside of biomedical engineering to include conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.
- Assisting with capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation, and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
- Functioning as a subject matter expert in the field of biomedical engineering who directly supports specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance at a medical center.
- Knowledge of basic project management principles, as applied to the healthcare setting and medical equipment, and information system implementation.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm CST
Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
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
. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Not Available
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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Starting at $157,638 Per Year (GS 14)