Facilities Operations Specialist

The tour of duty for this position is Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Hours may change due to operational needs of management.

Please Note: The selectee will be designated as an Emergency Essential Employee and will be required to work in emergency situations.

**Duties are stated at the GS-13 level. If selected at the GS-11 or GS-12 candidate will have non-competitive promotion potential to the GS-13.**

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Advise the Assistant Superintendent and Tenant Projects Branch Supervisor on the use of outside contractors as most reasonable course of action to accomplish specific aspects of a job or an entire work project when work cannot be performed by Architect of the Capitolstaff.
• Develop Statements of Work and Independent Government Estimates for procurement.
• Perform contract management and surveillance tasks to ensure that contractors performance complies with all contractual provisions.
• Manage projects covering all crafts trades and services.
• Initiate inspection test procedures contract modifications and standards checklists for evaluating contractor procedures and operations.
• Review all work performed through completed work orders.
• Submit fully documented reports covering all surveillance procedures findings and documented instances of unacceptable contractor performance and provides recommendations to the Chief of Operations.
• Develop and implement plans for performance of preventive maintenance scheduled and unscheduled work and facility sustainment.
• Oversee the operation and maintenance of the House Office Buildings their utilities and grounds.
• Prepare and manage work orders for client management expectation and shop coordination including scheduling notes and closeout.
• Review and analyze proposed and ongoing facility construction and alteration projects.
• Serve as a technical expert for the Tenant Services Division Tenant Projects Branch.
• Conduct conferences with customers to establish organization priorities in order to prepare program budgets.
• Evaluate and consider all relevant factors in planning facilities maintenance and repair operations.
• Recommend options for preventive maintenance and major maintenance including approaches to be used.
• Develop and implement a program to manage recurring work such as repetitive service calls.
• Publish guidance to building occupants for providing notification of recurring services and requesting unscheduled services.
• Develop notional and Gantt schedules for work within the House Office Buildings and coordinates these schedules with internal and external stakeholders.

Perform other related duties as assigned.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the competencies.
• You must meet the definition of specialized experience.
• You must be able to pass a drug test and background check.

• A citizen of the United States;
• A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
• A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
• A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa Swains Island and the Northern Mariana Islands and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
• A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Managements (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule is available for your review on the OPM web site atGeneral Schedule Qualification Standards.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

To qualifyat the GS-11 levelyour resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-09 level in the federal service. Examples of qualifying experience include the following types of tasks performed on a regular and recurring basis:

• Conducting inspections of construction and renovation work;
• Formulating plans for the most efficient use of staff resources; and
• Monitoring project funding levels and reporting status.OR;

Have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or at least 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or an LL.M. To be qualifying thehigher-level graduateeducation must be in a major field of study with course workdirectly relatedto the work of this position.OR;

Have an equivalent combination of the above specialized experience and higher level graduate education that meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position.

To qualify at the GS-12 levelyour resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-11 level in the federal service. Examples of qualifying experience include the following types of tasks performed on a regular and recurring basis:

• Managing a maintenance program for building complexes and/or other special-purpose installations including planning maintenance activities developing preventive maintenance programs and/or budget planning;
• Conducting surveillance activities over construction and maintenance operations performed by a variety of private contractors including reviewing project plans and specifications for workability; and
• Assisting in managing and directing contract administration activities to include monitoring contractor activities through personal contact and/or review of performance data to ensure compliance with technical financial and delivery requirements of the contract.

To qualify at the GS-13 level your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-12 level in the federal service. Examples of qualifying experience include the following types of tasks performed on a regular and recurring basis:

• Serving as an advisor for all issues related to facilities management operations and maintenance reliability-centered maintenance continuous commissioning utilities management and/or quality assurance and maintenance contract compliance;
• Developing surveillance techniques and/or procedures to use in inspecting the work performed by contractors to determine efficiency effectiveness reliability quality and timeliness factors; and
• Serving as Contracting Officers Representative (COR) or equivalent.