The Supervisory Biomedical Engineer is responsible to provide support for the hospital-wide Biomedical Engineering Program serving all Services throughout the campus of the Central Texas VA Healthcare System, and modern, state of the art outpatient clinics. He/she serves as a leader to the hospital in Healthcare Technology Management and is administratively under the Chief, Healthcare Technology Management.
Major duties include, but are not limited to: Acts as a consultant to the Medical Center regarding Healthcare Technology Management. Incumbent develops new innovative strategies to complete assignments as required. Provides a wide range of technical input and oversight when analyzing benefits and costs of accomplishing work in-house vs contracts. Organizes projects of broad scope and objectives that affect many levels of medical and administrative staff.
Typically, the assignment entails many variables for which precedent data, criteria, methods or techniques are significantly inadequate, are controversial or contain critical gaps.
Responsible for developing and improving complex medical equipment systems by working closely with the Project Engineering staff in developing performance specifications, safety specifications, and Human Factors Engineering specifications, as well as directing the Biomedical Engineering department in establishing installation, and maintenance procedures.
Evaluates functional and operational requirements of medical and engineering systems to establish and confirm specific requirements for final application. Develops policies and guidelines for the installation, maintenance, safety and application of all major modalities of Biomedical Instrumentation. He/she helps implement preventative maintenance programs for all medical equipment.
He/she is also responsible for initial staff training and in ongoing retraining as well as modifying training for identified user errors. Analyzes continuing personnel problems and takes necessary corrective action, develops quality and quantity standards, recommends promotions or reassignments of employees and promotes the participation of employees in the achievement of all management goals.
He schedules and approves leave requests, sets performance standards, conducts performance appraisals, counsels employees, adjusts complaints and grievances and initiates personnel actions as needed. Ensures that all electrical, networking, placement and design are compatible with the patient/hospital environment.
The incumbent also assures compliance with JCAHO, and other regulatory agencies such as OSHA, CAP, CARF, NFPA, and NRC to aid in the overall mission of the patient care institution. Acts as technical consultant for all Biomedical Engineering Staff who must often rely on the incumbent to help coordinate and provide technical knowledge on networked medical devices.
This oversight and management requires significant and extensive coordination and integration of a number of important projects and/or required Preventative Maintenance/Corrective Maintenance work loads. Makes recommendations in the creation of internal and external program policy issues affecting the overall organization that involve technological factors. He/she is involved in determining the optimum mix of reduced operating costs and assurance of program effectiveness.
He/she is involved in the introduction of laborsaving devices, automated processes, and methods of improvements. He/she is significantly involved in policy formation and long-range planning regarding prospective changes in function and programs. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday; 7:00am - 3:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc; as determined by supervisor and agency policy Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 52457-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $129232 – $168003/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-10-28.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
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