Assistant Project Manager USGS

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Plans, assigns, and supervises a large group of subordinate personnel engaged in maintaining a single or multiple site building in a clean and orderly condition.
• Determines work assignments, administers a quality control program.
• Periodically inspects rooms, halls, and other areas. Makes periodic inventories, computes consumption, estimates needs and requisitions housekeeping supplies.
• Maintains operating records and generates reports.
• Collaborates with various offices to coordinate requirements and develop and administer training programs.
• Operates housekeeping services within fiscal guidelines and plans for contingencies.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Aid in supervising the project Supervisor(s), Leadworker(s) and Custodians.

Required Qualifications

• Considerable knowledge of the principles of sanitation, methods, supplies and materials used in housekeeping including equipment used in cleaning and general housekeeping.
• Good knowledge of principles of personnel management as applied to selection, placement and supervision of subordinate employees such as maids and janitors.
• Good knowledge of the occupational hazards and necessary safety precautions required in institutional cleaning work.
• Ability to understand English both orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative relationships with other departments.
• Ability to supervise a large group of unskilled workers.
• Must be committed to a program of Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunities.
• Ability to establish and maintain professional contacts with contract staff and supervisors, including visitors and customers within the contract site.
• Three years of progressively responsible housekeeping experience, two recent years of supervisory experience.
• High School Diploma or equivalent degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Successfully complete the Registered Building Service Manager Certification course.