The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Facilities Management (FM), Office of Facilities Management and Reliability (OFMR). SI facilities and properties house about 6,500 employees and attract over 30 million visitors annually in the Metropolitan Washington area, New York City, Maryland and Panama.
Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Service. For this position specialized experience is defined providing leadership, direction, planning, management, and administration of complex facilities management functions for multiple facilities, including leased spaced with specialized requirements for art and artifacts. 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. Part-time and/or unpaid experience related to this position will be considered to determine the total number of years and months of experience. Be sure to note the number of paid or unpaid hours worked each week.
The Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist is responsible for providing leadership, direction, planning, management and administration of complex facilities management, operations and maintenance functions within a zone. In this position, you will: Plan, direct, oversee, evaluate and adjusts the work of the zone through subordinate supervisors and/or managers. Perform a wide and complex range of technical and administrative building and facilities management services, including custodial and laborer services; operation, planned (predictive and preventive) and unplanned routine maintenance and repair of building systems (including heating, ventilating, air conditioning, electrical, painting, structural and plumbing), support for special events, pest control, snow removal, and agreed-upon exhibit or program support. Develop or lead the development, evaluation and improvement of Smithsonian-wide standards, policies, plans and programs (such as Smithsonian-wide policies or standards for maintenance practices in historic facilities, cleaning and rigging operations used with certain kinds of museum collections, or policies and processes for monitoring, analyzing and measuring organizational performance related to facilities operations and maintenance). Advise Building Director(s), occupants and OFMR and serves as liaison with other SF organizations on facility planning and management issues including construction, renovation, safety, space management, facility management policy, and maintenance. Develop, implement, control and identify potential problems related to safety programs; coordinates and reviews the overall safety program for the zone and ensures effectiveness of safety initiatives, programs, policies, practices and procedures. Develop, coordinate and monitor the budget of the zone. Participates in justifying manpower and dollar resources. Assure that subordinate supervisors effectively carry out their personnel management responsibilities and administers a variety of policies to achieve management objectives in such areas as labor-management relations, employee development and training initiatives, diversity, and equal employment opportunity.