Facilities Operations Specialist (Facilities Planner)

To qualify for the GS-11 on Experience, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-09 it must include:

• Experience as a Facility Manager in an industrial/plant and/or construction environment where you gained experience with maintenance and construction techniques, and the capabilities of multiple relevant trades and crafts, in order to determine facility, grounds, or equipment overhaul, maintenance, restoration or repair requirements.

To qualify for the GS-11 on Education alone, you must have:

• 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
  You can also qualify based on a combination of higher level graduate education and experience. This must be fully supported by your resume and transcripts, provided with your application.

To qualify for the GS-12 on Experience, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-11 it must include:

• Experience as a Facility Manager in an industrial/plant and/or construction environment where you gained experience with maintenance and construction techniques, and the capabilities of multiple relevant trades and crafts, in order to determine facility, grounds, or equipment overhaul, maintenance, restoration or repair requirements.
• Experience in short and long range master planning for buildings, structures, architectural and environmental components.

You cannot qualify on education at the GS-12 level; you must have experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

1. Computer Skills – Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated work order systems to accomplish work.
2. Decision Making – Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
3. Manages and Organizes Information – Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
4. Problem Solving – Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

For all types of consideration, 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

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Students enrolled in a qualifying degree program can apply if the anticipated graduation date is within six months of closing date of the announcement. Graduation transcript must be received before start date.

Other applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

EDUCATION:

Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study — engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration.