Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist with National Park Service. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Utility Systems Branch Supervisor responsible for the supervision, operation, and management of the utility functions and oversees the planning and scheduling, facility condition assessment, budget development and execution, and coordination and management for utility related projects.

Duties

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Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

- Provides direct supervision to subordinate employees.

- Develops, budgets, and monitors expenditures for Branch program areas and ensures that funds are executed as allocated.

- Planning, estimating, and scheduling of all maintenance and repair work for the Utilities Systems Branch.

- Plans major improvement projects to the water and wastewaters systems

- Directs the day-labor construction projects assigned to the Branch, coordinates the preparation of necessary plans and estimates, and prepares for review specifications.

- Oversees Branch program administration processes, to include determining requirements, scheduling workloads, meeting deadlines, documenting program assets, analyzing reports, operational budget requests, and corrective maintenance requests, and using automated systems to assist in

implementing a preventative and cyclic maintenance schedule for new and existing utilities infrastructure.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 08/21/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.

For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications at the GS-13 grade level:

Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: leading, operating and managing facility operation and maintenance programs, planning for construction and rehabilitation projects, and finding solutions to utility and facility management issues. You must include hours per week worked.

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.

Education

This position does not allow substituting education for experience.

Additional information

Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.

All DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior.

Physical Demands: This position requires some physical exertion. Considerable time in the field is required to perform routine evaluations, sampling of (or supervise sampling of) water and wastewater, and measure performance of various physical facilities and devices. Duties require frequent standing, walking, stooping, lifting, bending, climbing, and driving, occasionally in rough terrain and for extended periods.

Work Environment: The work involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts. While office duties are accomplished under normal conditions, field work involves exposure to operating equipment and machinery, wastewater pumping stations and treatment ponds, water storage tanks, fuel storage tanks, hazardous or unknown chemicals, infectious agents, contaminated soils, construction sites, high noise levels, confined spaces, possible oxygen-deficient atmospheres, heavy equipment, adverse weather, varying road conditions, and the various naturally occurring desert and aquatic plants and wildlife

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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.

Benefits

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