Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist (Regional Facilities Administrator)

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements.

01Basic Requirements

Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration. OR Specialized Experience: Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Managing a maintenance program for office or apartment building complexes, hospitals, recreation facilities, military, or other special-purpose installations, including planning maintenance activities, and developing preventive maintenance programs.

Conducting surveillance activities over construction and maintenance operations performed by a variety of private contractors, including reviewing project plans and specifications for workability, informing contractors of construction and reporting requirements, and supervising operations for conformance with project plans.

Performing maintenance or construction work, including estimating material and labor costs for a variety of construction or maintenance projects (such as construction or maintenance of brick, frame, structural steel, reinforced concrete, and other type structures ranging from one- or two-story buildings to larger structures), directing actual work operations, and maintaining appropriate contacts with the organization funding the project.

AND In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements, applicants must have the following: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

02Experience

You must have at least one year of specialized experience that equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in advanced concepts, principles, and practices of correctional institution design and construction to provide definitive interpretation and guidance to institution facilities departments as well as the regional office. Experience in illustrating and articulating concepts, details, and costs of ongoing correctional institution design and construction projects.

Experience in possessing a comprehensive knowledge of the various manuals, codes, standards, laws, and other regulations that pertain to the construction and maintenance programs throughout the region in order to assure compliance with such requirements, and to instruct and advise others. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience.

To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.

This position serves as the Facilities Administrator for a region within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Under the supervision of the Deputy Regional Director, the Regional Facilities Administrator is responsible for directing the facilities programs for the regional office, and for providing guidance and direction related to facilities development and maintenance programs at institutions throughout their respective region.

Provides authoritative counsel to the Regional Director, other federal prison system staff, other agencies and various professional colleagues regarding the design and construction requirements of federal correctional institutions. Participates along with other Regional and Central Office staff in various mission and policy planning and execution activities. Guides new construction, renovations, maintenance and energy conservation programs throughout the region.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.