Engineers

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NITELINES USA, INC

Engineers

Albuquerque, NM
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Established in 1994, Nite Lines USA has successfully delivered contract support services to more than 144 government institutions and medical treatment facilities across the country. Work with a dedicated and caring organization and start doing your life's best work.

    We are currently seeking Engineers for VA Long Beach, CA.

    Pay: $45.00 per hour.

    Sign-on bonus: $2,000

    Benefits:

    • 401(k).
    • Dental insurance.
    • Health insurance.
    • Vision insurance.
    • Paid vacation.
    • Paid sick leave.
    • 11 paid holidays.

    Place of performance : VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM.

    Schedule: Monday-Friday 40 hours per week normally between the hours 8:00 am-4:30pm with a 30-minute, unpaid lunch break.

    Description of duties:

    • Development and Planning: Determines requirements, reconnaissance, location, and prepares designs, specifications and estimates. Applies a broad knowledge of methods, precedents, and standards to significantly diverse and intense work complexities.
    • Work complexities require not only adaptation or modification of precedents but a versatile and innovative approach to solve problems where serious conflicts exist between management requirements and engineering principles.
    • Performs or directs surveys and investigations to establish baseline data necessary to initiate design. Evaluates baseline data and incorporate salient factors into design considerations and solutions.
    • Evaluates design objectives, performs complex technical calculations, identifies most economical and efficient procedures for project design and performance considering all influences.
    • Professional Engineering/Architectural Advice: Provides professional advice to peers, subordinates or non-professional administrators or managers.
    • Reviews or directs the review of plans, specifications, and analyses of designs as submitted by subordinate engineers.
    • Provides professional advice to improve such plans, specifications and analyses.
    • Directs necessary changes and furnishes assistance required. Advises subordinate personnel on methods and procedures to be used in special studies on highly complex projects.
    • Provides professional oversite and/or project management of construction or maintenance efforts.
    • Construction, Maintenance & Project Administration Work: Performs scheduling and layout of operations, and inspection and surveillance of materials, methods, and equipment used in construction. Plans specific objectives for the program, including required innovations and improvisations.
    • Prepares detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding and bid evaluation.
    • Prepares correspondence, technical reports, estimates, fact sheets, status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments.
    • Consults with contractor personnel to resolve difficult and complex unforeseen problems and latent conditions developing during construction.
    • Prepares sketches or changes drawings and specifications solving the problem and incorporates these documents into the contract performance documents.
    • Reviews and evaluates shop drawings, samples and materials certifications submitted by contractor for contract and performance requirements, recommended approval reject or receipt.
    • Performs In-House Design and AE Design Management: Develops in-house designs, providing drawings, specifications, detailed cost estimates, manufacture cut sheets and other construction documents that are fully compliant with building codes and safety standards.
    • Establish design criteria for AE firms.
    • Prepares AE construct scope of work detailing specific design and construction objectives.
    • Prepares correspondence, technical reports, fact sheets, status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments.
    • Establishes VA design and construction standards and ensures AE and/or contractor adherence with those standards. Over sees, directs, reviews, approves and/or rejects AE design deliverables.
    • Directs AE in preparation of change order documents.

    Qualifications

    • Minimum 5 years General Engineer experience.
    • Must be familiar with patient Centered Care Culture in healthcare.
    • Must have a bachelor's degree in engineering and/or construction management.
    • Must have knowledge of healthcare design and understanding of fire codes, building codes, barrier free codes, system, components, cleaning and maintenance concepts, ergonomics and safety criteria.
    • Must have the ability to review and interpret construction drawings and specifications.
    • Preferred certification as a Professional Engineer.
    • Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access& Outlook) is required.
    • Microsoft Project and Revit are beneficial but not required.
    • VISTA (Veterans Health Information & Technology Architecture) use to access information in the
    • Medical Center Computer System is beneficial but not required.