Facility Operations Specialist.

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command is seeking a facilities operations professional to oversee day-to-day building operations for a complex of facilities at Fort Meade.

The role requires coordinating with tenants, leadership, and external contractors to ensure services, space, and schedules align with mission needs. The ideal candidate will manage preventive maintenance, perform inspections, and guide engineers on HVAC, electrical, and life-safety upgrades within historic structures,

Qualifications

• Experience managing day-to-day operations of buildings and grounds, including troubleshooting HVAC, electrical, and structural issues.
• Develop space management plans and maintain space assignment records.
• Coordinate facility support with engineers, contractors, and public works.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between tenants, senior leadership, and external engineering and contracting activities.
• Negotiate tenant requirements for space, services, and project timing.
• Respond to complaints related to building age/condition and resolve service requests.
• Establish inspection standards and surveillance schedules for building operations and maintenance.
• Develop multi-year building operations, preventive maintenance, and renovation plans for historic facilities.
• Analyze recurring system failures and recommend capital solutions.
• Advise leadership on HVAC, electrical, and life-safety upgrades.

Skills

Technical Competence

Planning and Evaluating

Quality Assurance

Customer Service

Job description

• Serves as the principal liaison between building tenants, senior leadership, and external engineering and contracting activities.
• Negotiates competing tenant requirements for space, services, and project timing to reach workable agreements.
• Responds to a wide variety of complaints arising from building age and condition and resolves requests for service.
• Establishes inspection standards, checklists, and surveillance schedules for the building operations and maintenance program.
• Develops multi-year building operations, preventive maintenance, and renovation plans for a complex of historic facilities.
• Analyzes recurring system failures in aging, historically significant structures and recommends engineered or capital solutions.
• Serves as the technical authority on building infrastructure, advising leadership on HVAC, electrical, and life safety upgrades.

Duties

• Serves as the principal liaison between building tenants, senior leadership, and external engineering and contracting activities.
• Negotiates competing tenant requirements for space, services, and project timing to reach workable agreements.
• Responds to a wide variety of complaints arising from building age and condition and resolves requests for service.
• Establishes inspection standards, checklists, and surveillance schedules for the building operations and maintenance program.
• Develops multi-year building operations, preventive maintenance, and renovation plans for a complex of historic facilities.
• Analyzes recurring system failures in aging, historically significant structures and recommends engineered or capital solutions.
• Serves as the technical authority on building infrastructure, advising leadership on HVAC, electrical, and life safety upgrades.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• In accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program, individual must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET security clearance based on a single scope background investigation (SSBI) with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
• Must be able to pass the Army Defensive Driver's Training Course.
• Must be able to pass a pre-appointment physical.
• May be required to lift up to 45 pounds.
• Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.
• All INSCOM employees may be subject to extended TDY or worldwide deployments during crisis situations to perform mission essential functions as determined by management.

Who May Apply

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See

• Current Civilian Employees of the Organization

Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.

Experience managing day-to-day operations of buildings and grounds, to include troubleshooting mechanical (HVAC), electrical, and structural malfunctions; developing space management and utilization plans, including maintenance of space assignment records; conducting quality assurance inspections of maintenance, equipment installation, custodial, and grounds work; AND coordinating facility support with the Corps of Engineers, contracting activities, Public Works, and other service providers.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS/GG-11).

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Technical Competence

Planning and Evaluating

Quality Assurance

Customer Service

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

• This position requires a 2 year trial period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the
• This is a Installations Career Field position.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Recruitment, Retention, and/or Relocation incentives may be authorized if it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government.

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.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.