Supervisory General Engineer (Deputy Department Head, Facilities Maintenance)

National Gallery of Art; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Gallery of Art seeks an Engineering-focused professional to support the Department Head of Facilities Maintenance in preserving and maintaining the Gallery’s architectural, civil, and structural systems. The incumbent oversees complex projects, coordinates with procurement and contracts, and ensures safe, compliant execution of maintenance programs.

Responsibilities include leading staff, guiding maintenance and repair efforts, and addressing facility challenges in service of the

Qualifications

• Professional engineering expertise for complex building, architectural, civil, and structural projects.
• Leads and supports comprehensive facilities maintenance, repair, restoration, and alteration programs.
• Reviews contract performance, develops procurement requirements, analyzes bids, and ensures effective contract execution.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and supervision to staff and supports workforce development.
• Coordinates with other Gallery departments and supports special events.
• Ensures safety and manages competing resources and priorities to fulfill the mission.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Contract management

Procurement coordination

Leadership and supervision

Safety leadership

Contract performance review

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Job description

The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. Incumbent’s work is integral to fulfilling the Gallery’s mission, particularly the preserving and exhibiting aspects of the mission.

The incumbent is responsible for assisting the Department Head of Facilities Maintenance in the maintenance of all the Gallery’s architectural, civil, and structural systems including all related maintenance and repair projects.

Duties for this position include

• Provides professional engineering expertise for complex building, architectural, civil, and structural projects.
• Leads and supports the development and execution of the Gallery’s comprehensive facilities maintenance, repair, restoration, and alteration programs.
• Serves as a COR, provides technical guidance to other CORs, reviews contract performance and documentation, develops procurement requirements, analyzes bids, participates in pre-bid meetings, prepares contract modifications, and works with Procurement and Contracts to ensure effective and accountable contract execution.
• Provides leadership and supervision to staff, supports workforce development and training, promotes safety, manages competing resources and priorities, and ensures the organization has the technical capabilities necessary to accomplish its mission.
• Coordinates with other Gallery departments, supports special events and organizational requirements, and provides expertise and leadership in addressing complex facilities issues in support of the Gallery’s mission.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• See \"Other Information\" section regarding Selective Service requirements.
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
  

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions viewable on OPM Website. It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date. Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this job announcement. Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your 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). Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

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