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Supervisory Biomedical Engineer
Veterans Health Administration · Prescott, Arizona · Closes in 45 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply. The agency also says current permanent VA employees and current permanent federal employees of other agencies may apply.
Experience: You need at least one year of experience equivalent to GS-13, and you must fully meet the GS-13 skills (called KSAs, or knowledge, skills and abilities) for this job. The skills include managing department resources, writing local policies, balancing priorities, analyzing complex problems, and leading staff.
Education: A bachelor's degree or higher in engineering from a program accredited by ABET (an engineering accreditation board). Examples include biomedical, clinical, electrical, mechanical and bioengineering. You may also qualify with a Certified Clinical Engineer (CCE) certification plus a bachelor's degree in another field. Current VHA employees may qualify under a grandfathering provision if they meet the criteria.
Licenses and certifications:
- Certified Clinical Engineer (CCE), only if you qualify through this option instead of an engineering degree
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 45 days (December 18, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement. Applications received by the first referral cut-off date of October 15, 2026 are referred first, and later applications are referred at regular intervals until the job is filled.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. Your application, resume and supporting documents will be verified, and VA may run pre-employment reference checks. Errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Be clear and specific about your experience, with dates and hours per week, because the agency will not assume anything.
- Send transcripts if you use education to qualify, and include a copy of any certification you list.
- Have a REAL ID-compliant ID ready, since non-compliant driver's licenses are no longer accepted for onboarding.
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