Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist

Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist with National Park Service. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.

Duties

• Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Providing facility management expertise for park unit initiatives. Participating in policy decisions, developing management documents, monitoring functions for compliance, and representing the park in public interactions. Preparing annual maintenance budgets using NPS programs, participating in Operations Formulations Systems (OFS) requests, managing project funding, tracking property inventory, and compiling cost data. Defining project scope, goals, and alternatives for facility changes; coordinating professional consultations and project document review. Act as liaison for compliance on environmental and cultural issues, implementing pollution prevention and sustainable operations, ensuring adherence to NPS and regulatory standards. Supervise staff, handling recruitment, work plans, promotions, scheduling, evaluations, training, and resolving personnel issues; supporting EEO programs. Physical Demands: Work is mostly sedentary in an office setting. At times, walking, hiking, climbing, bending, and moderate lifting are required. Work Environment: 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.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 09/14/2026-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. Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications: To qualify for this position at the GS-1640-11 series and grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: 1) Managing maintenance programs for various facilities, including planning activities and preventive measures; 2) Overseeing construction and maintenance by private contractors, reviewing plans, communicating requirements, and ensuring compliance; 3) Performing maintenance, estimating costs, directing operations, and liaising with funding organizations. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion of at least a Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral degree, or possess three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M., if related. Major study - engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience as listed above. To combine education and experience, only graduate hours in excess of two years (36 hours), is creditable towards meeting this requirement. For example, six (6) months of specialized experience (50%) plus 45 graduate hours (50%) equals 100%. You must include hours per week and 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.