Facility Operations Specialist

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); El Centro (CA); Sur place; USD 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States seeks a Facility Operations Specialist to oversee preventive maintenance and repairs across multiple site locations, including El Centro, CA.

The role focuses on building systems, security upgrades, and contractor supervision to ensure safe and compliant facilities. The position requires inspecting and maintaining plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems, with opportunities to enhance facility security and

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining and repairing a variety of facility systems, components, and structures.
• Experience supervising contractors and enforcing project plans.
• Experience estimating material and labor costs for maintenance projects.

Responsabilités

• Ensure performance of preventive maintenance on building systems, plumbing, electrical, mechanical and control systems and related components.
• Monitor the preventivemaintenance programs to ensure life expectancy of operational facilities.
• Repair building plumbing, low-voltage, and line voltage electric systems, door hardware, fire and life safety protection equipment/systems, sprinkler systems, seniors and related hardware and software.
• Upgrade and maintains security systems.

Connaissances

Attention to detail

Customer service

Decision making

Flexibility

Integrity/Honesty

Interpersonal skills

Learning

Reasoning

Self-management

Stress tolerance

Teamwork

Formation

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

Description du poste

Summary

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Organizational Location

These positions are located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Batavia, New York; El Centro, California; El Paso, Texas; Florence, Arizona; Fort Benning, Georgia; Los Fresnos, Texas; Miami, Florida; Washington, District of Columbia.

These are non bargaining unit positions.

Duties

As a Facility Operations Specialist, at the full performance level you will perform the following duties:

• Ensure performance of preventive maintenance on building systems, plumbing, electrical, mechanical and control systems and related components.
• Monitor the preventive maintenance programs to ensure life expectancy of operational facilities.
• Repair building plumbing, low-voltage, and line voltage electric systems, door hardware, fire and life safety protection equipment/systems, sprinkler systems, seniors and related hardware and software.
• Upgrade and maintains security systems.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required
• Requirements by Closing Date: Unless otherwise noted, you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Probationary Period: This is a full-time permanent position (Career/Career-Conditional appointment). Upon appointment to this position, you may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.

Qualifications

Please limit your resume to 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Education

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

Or

Specialized Experience

Examples of specialized experience includes:

• Managing a maintenance program for office or apartment building complexes, hospitals, recreation facilities, military, or other special-purpose installations, including planning maintenance activities, and developing preventive maintenance programs.
• Conducting surveillance activities over construction and maintenance operations performed by a variety of private contractors, including reviewing project plans and specifications for workability, informing contractors of construction and reporting requirements, and supervising operations for conformance with project plans.
• Performing maintenance or construction work, including estimating material and labor costs for a variety of construction or maintenance projects (such as construction or maintenance of brick, frame, structural steel, reinforced concrete, and other type structures ranging from one- or two-story buildings to larger structures), directing actual work operations, and maintaining appropriate contacts with the organization funding the project.

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE BASIC REQUIREMENT, YOU MUST ALSO MEET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

You qualify for the GS-11 grade level if you possess one of the following:

Experience: One (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-09 grade level or equivalent performing duties such as:

• Maintaining and repairing a variety of facility systems, components, and structures, providing technical support on preventive maintenance measures for building systems, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and control systems.
• Monitoring the repair of low-voltage, and line voltage electric systems, door hardware, fire and life safety protection equipment/systems, sprinkler systems, and related hardware and software.
• Installing, maintaining, repairing, and adjusting all types of locks and their components for the building, rooms, and vehicles.
• Conducting detailed inspections of buildings, additions, and alternations of existing buildings to determine structural deficiencies, proper use, and compliance with public law, federal and state regulations.

OR

Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. OR LL.M., if related.

OR

Combination of Experience and Education: A combination of successfully completed post- high school education at the graduate level. Only graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. This will be calculated using your resume and unofficial transcripts or a list of courses/course hours submitted with your application.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

National Service Experience (i.e., 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.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR 315.707. Veterans , Peace Corps , VISTA volunteers , and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.

Additional Information

Salary: The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the lowest and highest potential salaries for this position. The actual salary range will be based on the applicable locality pay for the selected duty location. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays. Other benefits may include: flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers. DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities. For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.

Pursuant to Executive Order 12564, and the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan, ICE is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and, therefore, personnel in safety- or security-sensitive positions (testing designated positions) are subject to random drug testing. Moreover, other drug testing of employees (e.g., reasonable suspicion drug test) may be conducted in order to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. All applicants tentatively selected for employment at ICE are subject to pre-employment drug testing and a final offer of employment is contingent upon a negative drug test result.

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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.

We Will Review Your Resume And Supporting Documentation To Ensure You Meet The Minimum Qualification Requirements. If You Meet The Minimum Qualifications, We Will Use The Online Assessments To Place You In One Of Three Categories Based On Your Experience, Education And Training. The Competencies Or Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Needed To Perform This Job Are:

• Attention to Detail
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Learning
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork

In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be placed in one of the following categories:

• Best-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate high proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all Selective Placement Factors (SPF) and appropriate Quality Ranking Factors (QRF) as determined by the job analysis.
• Well-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrates acceptable proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis
• Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate basic proficiency in most of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.

If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview.

Interviews may be required for this position. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from further consideration.

Veterans

Qualified veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10% are listed in the best-qualified category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level, or higher. (This position is not considered scientific/professional.) Other 10-point preference eligible and veterans with 5-point preference who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements are placed above non-preference eligible within the category in which they qualify. View information on veterans' preference.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP/CTAP) Eligibles

If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP/CTAP eligible. View information about ICTAP eligibility ICTAP/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under ICTAP/CTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement.