General Engineer
Long Beach, CA
We are recruiting for an onsite General Engineer to support the Engineering Department at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. This role supports planning, design, construction, maintenance, project administration, environment of care compliance, and healthcare facility improvements across the medical center campus.
Position Responsibilities
What You’ll Do
- Determine requirements, perform reconnaissance, support location analysis, and prepare designs, specifications, and estimates
- Apply engineering methods, standards, and precedent to complex facility and project problems
- Conduct or direct surveys and investigations to establish baseline data for design
- Evaluate technical requirements and develop economical, efficient design approaches
- Provide professional engineering advice to peers, managers, and project stakeholders
- Review plans, specifications, and design analyses and direct changes as needed
- Support construction and maintenance efforts through scheduling, layout, inspection, and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment
- Prepare cost estimates, technical reports, fact sheets, schedules, and status reports
- Consult with contractors on unforeseen field conditions and latent construction issues
- Review shop drawings, samples, and material certifications for contract compliance
- Perform in-house design and support A/E design management
- Develop drawings, specs, cost estimates, cut sheets, and construction documents compliant with codes and safety standards
- Establish design criteria for A/E firms and support scope development for A/E work
- Review, direct, approve, or reject A/E design deliverables
- Support change order documentation
- Implement and monitor Environment of Care, OSHA, life safety, hazardous materials, emergency preparedness, security, and environmental compliance activities
- Support building renovations, interior finish improvements, water distribution, wastewater treatment, storm drainage, roads, and pavement-related projects
- Provide customer service in support of veterans, visitors, VA staff, and contractor teams
- Follow infection control and ADP/privacy/security requirements
Required Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of General Engineer experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering and/or construction management
- Familiarity with Patient Centered Care culture in healthcare
- Knowledge of healthcare design
- Understanding of fire codes, building codes, barrier-free codes, systems/components, cleaning and maintenance concepts, ergonomics, and safety criteria
- Ability to review and interpret construction drawings and specifications
- Strong Microsoft Office skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with contractors, management officials, vendors, contracting officers, and VA staff
Preferred Qualifications
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