Facilities Specialist
What you'd do
About the Position: Serves as the Facilities Specialist and primary point of contact with responsibility for all facilities, lands, and building management functions of the Fountain City Service Base and the Lock & Dam 5A storage building and grounds. The secondary focus of this position is oversight of fleet management activities. Performs duties which include surveillance and coordination of the maintenance of physical facilities, infrastructure, utilities, and grounds.
Major duties
Responsible for all functions related to facility and lands management for nine buildings, one building with office space, storage, and grounds, to include building operation and maintenance services. Assists planning efforts for future facility needs within the Mississippi River Project Complex. Conducts analysis of current facilities through reviews of records and physical inspections to collect information to prepare and maintain an up-to-date inventory of existing facilities. Participates with project program managers in preparing scopes of work to be contracted, plans and specifications for performance of work, estimates of time, materials, equipment, and costs, etc. Assists the Maintenance and Repair and Dredge Goetz crews with crane activities such as but not limited to rigging, signalman and maintenance of the crane located at the Fountain City Service Base. Performs all phases of operational maintenance work, including troubleshooting, installation, and testing of conventional components, and adapting or redesigning such components to accomplish the organization's communications mission.
What you need to qualify
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Limited AOCs (smaller than Army-wide): Limited AOCs can only be used if an organization is undergoing workforce reshaping. Proof of workforce reshaping for customer organization must be uploaded to the case file. Proof that an organization is undergoing workforce reshaping may include, but is not limited to, internal Command guidance, authorization to RIF, TOF or mass MDR, opening of a VERA/VSIP window, implementation of hiring restrictions, etc. Current Civilian Employees of the Command Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Performing routine maintenance for buildings and grounds such as electrical, mechanical, painting, plumbing, safety, cleaning, snow removal, grading and other various tasks; 2) Reviewing the work of contract personnel to assure work sequence, procedures and deadlines are met such as assisting with building scopes of work and determining specifications for facility needs; 3) Demonstrating experience with safety and environmental compliance inspections; 4) Conducting analysis of current facilities through reviews of records and physical inspections to collect information such as condition, capacity, current utilization, and other pertinent information to prepare and maintain an up-to-date inventory of existing facilities. (Must meet 3 out of 4). This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position such as Facilities Management, Building Construction, Project Management, Business Administration, etc. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Facilities Operations Management Program/Project Management Safety, Security, and Fire Protection Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09). With regards to time-in-grade validation, if you held a position other than a GS pay plan, be sure your resume includes the pay plan and the salary you earned during the assignment. Without this information, your time-in-grade validation may not be able to be verified and will result in your not meeting the time-grade requirement for this vacancy. Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
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