Supervisory Biomedical Engineer; Clinical

OPENING DATE: 2/9/26

CLOSING DATE: 2/19/26

The Supervisory Biomedical Engineer (Clinical) position is responsible for the professional and administrative management of the Biomedical Engineering Service. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Conducts an equipment management program.
• Assures provision of a continuing education program for professional staff addressing the principles and application of medical instrumentation used in the delivery of healthcare.
• Manages a recall and safety alert program for medical devices, including medical device incident investigations to assure compliance with patient safety goals.
• Conducts capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation, and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
• Serves as institutional expert who directly supports the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple sites.
• Exercises authority to oversee the overall planning, direction, and timely execution of the clinical engineering program, including development of the service, assignment of duties, and pursuit of higher-level administrative approval of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of subordinate levels.
• Exercises discretionary authority to approve allocation and distribution of funds in the service's budget.
• Has full administrative, managerial, and supervisory responsibilities for a multi-Medical Center clinical engineering program. Responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and evaluating this program at each facility and its outpatient clinics.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of the employees.
• Evaluates work performance of subordinates.
• Interviews candidates for positions and makes selections.
• Evaluates performance of staff and finds ways to improve production or increase quality of work and also develops performance standards.
• Exercises significant responsibility in dealing with officials of other units or organizations, or in advising management officials of higher rank including physicians and clinical staff relating to technical matters.
• Makes selections for subordinate non-supervisory positions, hears and resolves grievances or serious employee complaints.
• Makes decisions regarding non-routine, costly and controversial training needs and training requests related to employees of the unit, approves expenses comparable to within grade increases, extensive overtime, and employee travel, recommends awards or bonuses for non-supervisory personnel and changes position classifications subject to approval by higher level officials.
• Responsible for providing assistance to the medical staff in selection and utilization of medical equipment.

Work Schedule: Full-Time Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: Not authorized
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement# SBY-SBME 2026
Financial Disclosure: Required
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) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
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)
NOTIFICATIONS:

• This position is in the Excepted Service.
• This position is on a special salary rate.
• Current and former Federal employees may submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.

To view additional job descriptions and duties, visit: USAJOBS Posting

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated…