Facility Operations Specialist

**Duties**:

- Managing a comprehensive District or School Complex level facility operations program.
- Serving as primary point of contact for a full range of facility operations to include facility maintenance and repair, utilities, energy management, water and wastewater, pavement clearance, refuse collection and disposal, and grounds maintenance.
- Serving as facilities technical advisor for environmental issues related to the Department of Defense Education Activity schools.
- Evaluating the condition of all facility components, buildings, and on-going repairs.
- Budgeting, monitoring, and executing the sustainment, renovation, and modernization, custodial, and grounds maintenance funding provided from the regional facility office.
- Determining the priority for the maintenance and repair of all buildings, including modifying plans to respond to changing and unpredictable demands for services.
- Serves as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for Maintenance, Custodial, and grounds contracts.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- One year trial or probationary period may be required.
- This position requires a Tier 1 (T1) investigation
- This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
- Individuals hired from the Continental United States (CONUS) and their family members (who are US citizens) are required to obtain Official Passports prior to departure to the overseas area.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply**:U.S. Citizens- **Specialized Experience required**: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. **One year of specialized experience which includes: evaluating the conditions of facility components to determine maintenance needs, custodial services, or grounds maintenance; monitoring budget expenditures for facility projects; and managing service order requests. **The definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).
- You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Facilities Operations and Maintenance
- Facilities Requirements Analysis and Planning
- Project Planning, Design, and Construction

**Additional information**:

- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- Applicants who have family members with special medical needs should ensure that prior to accepting a position overseas their family members' medical needs can be met. Access to care in a military treatment facility may not be available to civilian employees except on a space available basis. Consequently, host nation medical facilities may be the only care available. The availability and level of care at host nation medical facilities will vary by location.
- Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only.
- Medical and dental care may be provided by host nation providers. The availability and level of care at host nation medical and dental facilities will vary by location.
- Status applicants in their fourth year of an overseas assignment cannot be selected unless a waiver of the 5 year overseas service limitation requirement is approved.
- Selectees recruited outside the U.S. will have their eligibility for foreign area benefits determined at the time of hire.
- The initial length of this overseas tour is 36 months.
- This position is not covered by a bargaining unit.
- If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.

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**How You Will Be Evaluated**:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

**Additional Information regarding overseas appointments**:

- If an employee brings a child to an overseas location and that child is entitled to attend a DoD school on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, the DoDEA and the Military Department responsible for providing related services will ensure that the child, if eligible for special education, receives a free appropriate public education, including related se