Facility Operations Specialist
What you'd do
This position is located in the Facilities Services Branch, Operations Division, Office of Museum Operations and Administration, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In this position, you will coordinate and oversee various programs and projects in support of Facilities Services. This includes determining the maintenance and upkeep requirements of assigned facilities elements, programs, and activities and managing procurement, projects, and contracts for these and other programs.
Major duties
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a federally chartered, nonpartisan institution that was created by the US Congress to serve as America's national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and an educational institution dedicated to the history and lessons of the Holocaust. The Museum seeks to educate Americans from all 50 states and all walks of life as well as international audiences. The Museum has three areas of expertise: Holocaust remembrance, Holocaust scholarship and education, and genocide prevention. In carrying out its important memorial and educational mission, the Museum is guided by its institutional values for our workplace: Honor the memory of the victims; carry out our work with dignity, humility, integrity and respect for others; and strive for excellence through teamwork, rigor, and a culture of continuous learning. Consistent respect for others is the foundation for trust, collegiality and inclusion. Duties include: Determine the maintenance and upkeep requirements of assigned facilities elements, programs, and activities as well as managing procurement, projects, and contracts for these and other programs. Provides technical advice and assistance with regard to facilities operation and management in accordance with the USHMM facility programs and in support of the mission needs of the Museum. Develops detailed statements of work, specifications, requests for proposal, and cost estimates. Evaluates bids or offers submitted, determines responsiveness to the solicitation, evaluates bidder's capability to perform and comply with contract clauses and specifications and notifies contracting officer. Performs price analysis, benchmarks, researches best practices, analyzes commercial pricing practices applicable to services, determines reasonableness of prices offered, and recommends award to contracting officer. Ensures that program requirements are clearly defined and advises the contracting officer to help ensure that the contract is designed to meet those requirements. Performs the full range of Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) responsibilities as required for all contracts assigned. Oversees contract performance and negotiates or settles matters involving controversial issues. Maintains daily logs of services performed with indicated work accomplished, discrepancies, unsatisfactory conditions, non-compliance with contract specifications, complaints, safety and security violations.
What you need to qualify
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Basic Requirement: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration. or Specialized Experience: An example of experience is managing a maintenance program for office or apartment building complexes, hospitals, recreation facilities, military, or other special-purpose installations, including planning maintenance activities, and developing preventive maintenance programs. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the specialized experience related to this position listed below. Qualifying experience for this position at the GS-12 grade level includes one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 which is directly related to the work of this position and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. For this position, specialized experience is coordinating and overseeing various programs and projects in support of Facilities Services; managing procurement, projects, and contracts for these and other programs; managing budgets and tracks expenditures for maintenance, repair work, new construction, alteration projects, increase in services, and other criteria; developing detailed statements of work, specifications, requests for proposal, and cost estimates; performing full range of Contracting Officer's Representative's (COR) responsibilities as required on assigned contracts; and conducting site studies and analysis of the in-house operation to determine capability and method of accomplishment and provides written and oral presentations. **TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED TO VERIFY EDUCATION REQUIREMENT** ***Failure to submit required documentation will result in an ineligible rating.
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