U.S. Department of Defense
Biomedical Engineer
Pay$41365.00 - $118161.00 / year
LocationPhiladelphia/Pennsylvania
Employment typeFull-Time
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Job Description
- Req#: 746187600
- The below responsibilities will be performed in a developmental capacity.
- Provide technical support for the procurement of complex, high technology, medical capital equipment and systems with turnkey installation for military and other federal government customers.
- Perform market research and advise customers and contracting staff regarding technical advancements relating to existing systems as well as new developments in high technology medical equipment.
- Review customer purchase request documents for completeness and accuracy. Recommend updates or revisions based on knowledge of product and vendor contracts.
- Review inspection results and reports for complex medical equipment and systems, and turnkey installation, to determine contractor technical compliance with contract requirements.
- Perform technical analysis of contractor submittals to assure equipment specifications and proposals meet requirements.
- Review turnkey installation requirements and contractor statements of work and cost breakdowns to determine acceptability and provide recommendations to the contracting officer.
- Determines need for and advises customer of necessary revisions to purchase requests (PR) and contract provisions used in the procurement of complex medical equipment and systems.
- Conducts studies or resolves problems on quality characteristics or technical aspects of new items or Items previously causing difficulties.
- Identifies recurring equipment problems and assesses the responsiveness of contractor service.
- Provides the technical and quality expertise necessary to translate and coordinate specifications requirements incident to the manufacture of complex medical equipment and systems.
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Tour of Duty: Flexible
- Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with No Access
- Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt GS-12 / Non-Exempt GS-05/07/09/11
- Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
- Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- Bargaining Unit Status: No
- Professional Registration or Licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
- Specified Academic Courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the Basic Requirements above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above.
- Related Curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g. engineering technology physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
- GS-07: Researching and evaluating both current and emerging high technology medical capital equipment technologies with supervision and guidance; Providing consultation relating to acquisition of complex high technology medical equipment with turnkey installation with supervision and guidance; Evaluating customer's turnkey installation requirements and developing appropriate technical data packages with supervision and guidance.
- GS-09: Researching and evaluating both current and emerging high technology medical capital equipment technologies; Providing consultation to the relating to acquisition of complex high technology medical equipment with turnkey installation; Evaluating customer's turnkey installation requirements and developing appropriate technical data packages.
- GS-11: Researching and evaluating both more advanced high technology medical capital equipment technologies; Providing advanced consultation to the relating to acquisition of complex high technology medical equipment with turnkey installation; Evaluating customer's turnkey installation requirements and developing advanced technical data packages.
- GS-12: Serving as a Senior Biomedical Engineer analyzing advanced high technology medical capital equipment technologies; Providing senior level consultation related to acquisition of complex high technology medical equipment with turnkey installation; Developing high level technical packages based on the evaluation of Medical customer's turnkey installation requirements
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Qualifications
To qualify for a Biomedical Engineer your resume and supporting documentation must support:
A. Basic Requirement: A Bachelor's Degree or higher in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
A combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
B. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-05 grade level, you are only required to meet one of the Basic Requirements above. In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement above, to qualify for the GS-07 grade level, specialized experience must be at the GS-05 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. To qualify for the GS-09 grade level, specialized experience must be at the GS-07 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cutoff/ closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:About the company
The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".