Facilities Specialist.

About the role

Responsible for all functions related to facility and lands management for nine buildings, one building with office space, storage, and grounds, to include building operation and maintenance services.

Responsibilities

• Assists planning efforts for future facility needs within the Mississippi River Project Complex.
• Conducts analysis of current facilities through reviews of records and physical inspections to collect information to prepare and maintain an up-to-date inventory of existing facilities.
• Participates with project program managers in preparing scopes of work to be contracted, plans and specifications for performance of work, estimates of time, materials, equipment, and costs, etc.
• Assists the Maintenance and Repair and Dredge Goetz crews with crane activities such as but not limited to rigging, signalman and maintenance of the crane located at the Fountain City Service Base.
• Performs all phases of operational maintenance work, including troubleshooting, installation, and testing of conventional components, and adapting or redesigning such components to accomplish the organization's communications mission.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual exam thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
• This position has been designated "Mission Essential".
• In the event of severe weather conditions or other such emergency situations (natural or man-made disaster) you are required to report to work or remain at work to support mission operations.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 11.
• While probationary the incumbent can be terminated with limited appeal rights.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 10% of duty time.
• This position is subject to pre-employment screening, and random drug testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• This position requires incumbent must obtain a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) within one year after appointment and maintain this license.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Performing routine maintenance for buildings and grounds such as electrical, mechanical, painting, plumbing, safety, cleaning, snow removal, grading and other various tasks; 2) Reviewing the work of contract personnel to assure work sequence, procedures and deadlines are met such as assisting with building scopes of work and determining specifications for facility needs; 3) Demonstrating experience with safety and environmental compliance inspections; 4) Conducting analysis of current facilities through reviews of records and physical inspections to collect information such as condition, capacity, current utilization, and other pertinent information to prepare and maintain an up-to-date inventory of existing facilities. (Must meet 3 out of 4).
• Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position such as Facilities Management, Building Construction, Project Management, Business Administration, etc.
• Combination of education and experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.