Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist
What you'd do
This position is located within the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Region, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana. Responsibilities include providing facility management with diversified infrastructure and operational complexity.
Major duties
The major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Serves as member of the management team in support of park unit initiatives. Reports to the Superintendent. Manages complex projects, develops scopes of work, budget estimates, and 5-year planning documents. Collaborates with park team and partners to develop and achieve park, program and projects goals. Initiates actions and serves as the liaison for compliance of environmental/cultural issues related to project proposals and park operations. Maintains contracting officer representative (COR) accreditation and prepares annual work budget plans for maintenance operations. Determines trades, materials and equipment applicable to facility maintenance and operations within the park unit. Exercises full range of supervisory duties of subordinates for permanent, seasonal, youth workers, and volunteers. Recruits and makes selection of employees; makes the recommendation of promotions, reassignments, and other personnel actions.
What you need to qualify
Requirements Continued... As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year supervisory probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated. This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-08/10/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: managing office or apartment building complexes, hospitals, or recreation facilities; planning maintenance activities and preventive maintenance programs for a facility; estimating materials and labor costs for a variety of maintenance projects or contracts; working as a planner, contractor, or inspector of journeyman in the construction industry; experience in building trade practices; and experience working with the Facility Management Software System (FMSS), or comparable maintenance management, cost estimating and/or project management systems. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a related Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; or three full years of progressively higher level related graduate education leading to a Ph.D., from an accredited college or university with a major in a field of study that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position, such as engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration; or LL.M, if related. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of Education and Experience: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. For example, I have six months of specialized experience (50% of the required specialized experience) and 45 semester hours or 68 quarter hours of appropriate graduate study (50% of the required graduate level study). The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts. Volunteer Experience: 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. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. Physical Demands: Work is mostly sedentary in an office setting. At times, walking, hiking, climbing, bending, and moderate lifting are required. Working Conditions: The work involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts associated with the operation repair and maintenance of park infrastructure and equipment. There are occasions of exposure to risk situations.
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