Engineering Technician

Engineering Technician

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): San Antonio, Texas

Salary Range: $62629 - $81423 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located within Engineering Service at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) in San Antonio, TX. Duties may be performed at the Kerrville Division campus in Kerrville, TX. The primary function of this position is to assist in the administration of the projects and construction program.

Major Duties:

• ***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** MAJOR DUTIES: Responsible for inspecting and overseeing and supervising complex projects from inception to final acceptance. Prepares engineering estimates for construction projects and equipment installation projects and prepares documents for pre-bid conferences. Serves as the contracting officer's technical representative on construction projects correspondence with contractors and other personnel regarding construction requirements, utility outages, and vacating areas for construction. Inspects and evaluate assigned construction projects to ensure contractor compliance with plans, specifications, and phasing. Makes independent determinations on payments to contractors for work completed. Provides for complete coordination of assigned construction projects between facility and construction activities. Prepares electrical, plumbing, HVAC, utility systems, mechanical, pneumatic, civil, and structural designs and layouts complete with specifications, scope of work and cost estimates. Reviews, approves and disapproves shop drawings and designs submitted and prepared by contracting firms for compliance with contract specifications. Reviews technical submissions from consultant engineers for compliance with project missions. Prepares broad and complex architectural, electrical, civil, plumbing, and heating and air-conditioning drawings to constitute a legal contract for construction work. Details the drawings and makes decisions in calculations, checks and analyzes submitted drawings of contractors for completeness, correctness and compliance with specifications and/or contract drawings updates, and verifies existing Medical Center record drawings. Designs automated drawing and data file structure. Digitizes drawings and data into computer-aided PC and drafting and design (CAD). Independently writes technical specifications for construction of building systems and alterations, roads, sewer, drainage, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and hospital, medical gases, etc. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved

Qualifications: In order to qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must meet one of the following: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-8) in the Federal service that provided the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled (Engineering Technician). Specialized experience is experience applying engineering technician principles in support of building and construction projects, such as facility planning, project design, cost estimation, and/or project management; reviewing plans and specifications; performing technical analyses; and supporting project execution. (THIS EXPERIENCE MUST BE SUPPORTED BY YOUR RESUME TO BE CREDITABLE.) - OR- EDUCATION: Two full years of graduate education or a master's degree that is directly related to the work of the position (Engineering Technician). NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. - OR- COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: An equivalent combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience, as described above, which meets the total experience requirements for this grade level. The education portion must include graduate courses directly related to the work of the position (Engineering Technician). NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online assessment and submission of the required documentation specified in the Required Documents section above. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12949416. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 05/07/2026. After submitting the online application, you will be notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment system. This message will be delivered to you via email notification. The email may be routed to your "Spam" or "Junk" folder. IMPORTANT: If you are asked to take the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning your USA Hire Assessments. Click here for Computer System Requirements. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue at a later time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found in your USAJOBS account under the "Track my application" link for the corresponding application. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-07