Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist

National Park Service; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

National Park Service in San Francisco seeks a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist to oversee complex park infrastructure and historic facilities. You will manage a multi-disciplinary team, budgets, and supplier contracts to maintain safety and reliability in a dense urban setting.

The role requires coordinating asset management and park-wide planning while guiding critical decisions with park leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead facility management for a complex park unit with historic buildings, cultural landscapes, and mechanical systems.

Job description

This listing is a summary.

Open: October 16, 2026 — Closes: October 22, 2026

Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist with National Park Service. The position is responsible for providing facility management for a Park Unit with widely diversified infrastructure and operational complexity characterized by multiple developed areas within a park unit. This position manages a multi-faceted organization through the management of subordinate supervisory staff, multi-year/operational budgets, and the utilization of new information technologies.

Major Duties

At the full performance level (GS-12) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to thefollowing: Proper operation of the park unit as the lead facility manager for a complex of historic buildings,cultural landscapes, and mechanical systems at a high visitation site in a dense urban setting. Specializedknowledge including physical security, structural fire, pesticide application, fleet management, pavement/surfaces and contract management is required. Supervises subordinates specialized trade and craft workers. The position will supervise a team of highly skilled trade workers and have responsibility for planning, issuing and overseeing knowledge-based work assignments, measuring performance. The position has hiring authority and is expected to competently plan, recruit, hire and manage staff with the highest degree of integrity. The position will have purchasing authority and be responsible for obtaining materials and services in support of the facility maintenance programs as well as for other programs of the park. The position will manage a discretionary budget and interact with multiple systems for the purpose of tracking and reporting expenditures. The position will plan, submit for consideration, execute, monitor and complete complex maintenance, repair and construction projects through the use of federal contracts. The position may be responsible for simultaneously managing more than one project at a time. The position shall understand and utilize principles of asset management and participate in planning efforts, such as value analysis workshops such that the park's complicated project portfolio is properly calibrated and prioritized. The position will be responsible for the direct management of historic facilities (buildings and structures), cultural landscapes, park lands (trees, turf, plantings, irrigation systems), historic mechanical systems (steam boilers), paths and sidewalks, and paved roads which includes inspection, short and long-term planning and execution of sound preventive maintenance and repairs. The position will be the Park Structural Fire Coordinator (PSFC) and be responsible for the inspection of facility conditions for fire prevention and safety and fire detection and alarm systems such that all inspection and life safety requirements described in RM-58 are met and in compliance with the A-123 audit. The position is tasked with managing the physical security of the park, including points of access to facilities and stances of security in the outdoor park environment. The position manages the GSA fleet of government vehicles and is responsible for ensuring that the fleet is maintained on prescribed schedules and are obtained or replaced such that the park's mission need is satisfied. Additionally, the position manages the park's government-owned fleet of equipment and ensures that such equipment is documented and tracked in the Equipment Replacement Program (ERP). The position participates in parkwide efforts and meetings for the purpose of guiding strategic planning and operations and routinely consults with park leadership to provide input to them to help with critical decision making.