Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist @ National Park Service

Job Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist with National Park Service. The position is responsible for providing facility management for a Park Unit with widely diversified infrastructure and operational complexity characterized by multiple developed areas within a park unit. This position manages a multi-faceted organization through the management of subordinate supervisory staff, multi-year/operational budgets, and the utilization of new information technologies.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 10/28/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized 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 periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. 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.

Selective Placement Factors: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. If you do not provide evidence that you possess the following selective factor(s), you will be rated not qualified. Contracting Officer Representative Level 2 (Copy of certification required in your application). -AND- Minimum Qualification

Requirements

• To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications: To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).
• Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: planning and managing a maintenance operation, utilizing current facility management practices such as value analysis, life cycle costs and choosing by advantages; In addition, budget development, including annual and long term work plans; developing short term and long term plans for maintenance activities, and developing maintenance programs.
• Utilizing procurement regulations and contract management requirements, to analyze and prepare detailed cost estimates for facility operation, maintenance, and construction, including contract specifications; analyzing contract proposals, developing spending plans, managing project accounts, and managing construction activities including contract oversight to identify, initiate, and justifying projects.
• You must include hours per week worked.
• 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.

Major Duties

• At the full performance level (GS-12) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to thefollowing: Proper operation of the park unit as the lead facility manager for a complex of historic buildings,cultural landscapes, and mechanical systems at a high visitation site in a dense urban setting.
• Specializedknowledge including physical security, structural fire, pesticide application, fleet management, pavement/surfaces and contract management is required.
• Supervises subordinates specialized trade and craft workers.
• The position will supervise a team of highly skilled trade workers and have responsibility for planning, issuing and overseeing knowledge-based work assignments, measuring performance.
• The position has hiring authority and is expected to competently plan, recruit, hire and manage staff with the highest degree of integrity.
• The position will have purchasing authority and be responsible for obtaining materials and services in support of the facility maintenance programs as well as for other programs of the park.
• The position will manage a discretionary budget and interact with multiple systems for the purpose of tracking and reporting expenditures.
• The position will plan, submit for consideration, execute, monitor and complete complex maintenance, repair and construction projects through the use of federal contracts.
• The position may be responsible for simultaneously managing more than one project at a time.
• The position shall understand and utilize principles of asset management and participate in planning efforts, such as value analysis workshops such that the park's complicated project portfolio is properly calibrated and prioritized.
• The position will be responsible for the direct management of historic facilities (buildings and structures), cultural landscapes, park lands (trees, turf, plantings, irrigation systems), historic mechanical systems (steam boilers), paths and sidewalks, and paved roads which includes inspection, short and long-term planning and execution of sound preventive maintenance and repairs.
• The position will be the Park Structural Fire Coordinator (PSFC) and be responsible for the inspection of facility conditions for fire prevention and safety and fire detection and alarm systems such that all inspection and life safety requirements described in RM-58 are met and in compliance with the A-123 audit.
• The position is tasked with managing the physical security of the park, including points of access to facilities and stances of security in the outdoor park environment.
• The position manages the GSA fleet of government vehicles and is responsible for ensuring that the fleet is maintained on prescribed schedules and are obtained or replaced such that the park's mission need is satisfied.
• Additionally, the position manages the park's government-owned fleet of equipment and ensures that such equipment is documented and tracked in the Equipment Replacement Program (ERP).
• The position participates in parkwide efforts and meetings for the purpose of guiding strategic planning and operations and routinely consults with park leadership to provide input to them to help with critical decision making.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participation required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. You are required to wear a uniform and comply with uniform standards.

A uniform allowance will be provided. You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority. A financial disclosure report will be required within 30 days of appointment. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest. 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. This is a supervisory position that may require completion of a supervisory probationary period.