General Facility Manager

Summary

This position is in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Field Organization, Southeast Area, United States National Poultry Research Center (USNPRC), Athens, Georgia. In this position, you will be an integral member of the Location Support Office, directing and managing all biosafety and biocontainment facilities engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, as well as buildings and grounds activities and functions.

Duties

• Serve as a subject matter expert and technical authority on high and maximum biosafety, biocontainment, and biosecurity containment and operational issues.
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements governing both program activities and biosafety and biocontainment programs within existing facilities and their operations.
• Develop and maintain high and maximum containment operational procedures for research and animal laboratories and facilities and develop guidance, policies, and protocols for the USNPRC Biorisk Management Program.
• Plan and execute long-range programs and projects that apply new operational and maintenance standards to Biosafety Level-3 facilities.
• Manage the annual facilities Repair and Maintenance (R and M) Plan for the USNPRC facilities.
• Serve as a Contracting Officer's Representative on contracts relating to operational management of medium to high containment facilities at USNPRC.
• Oversee Project Management and Architect/Engineering design services task orders including plan/submittal reviews, payment evaluations, recommendations to the contracting officer, and contractor evaluations.
• Develop new theories/concepts in tracking, implementing and enhancing maintenance tasks and duties to improve biocontainment, reduce maintenance costs, and accelerate organizational change to prevent human error in biocontainment facilities.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Minimum Qualifications: GS-14 Grade Level Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. The specialized experience requirements for this position are: Qualifying experience for GS-14 includes one year of specialized experience comparable to the GS-13 which is directly related to the work of this position, and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. For this position, specialized experience is maintaining and/or providing daily operations for high containment laboratories and animal facilities supporting biological agents and toxins research; preparing budget estimates for maintenance, repairs, supplies, or other operational costs for a facilities management program; complying with Select Agent Program regulatory requirements and federal regulations pertaining to contracts for facilities maintenance projects; developing, implementing, or updating maximum-containment policies or procedures; and integrating biocontainment engineering and biosafety practices into animal disease research and diagnostic operations. 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How to apply

Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documentation as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. Resumes cannot exceed two pages. The application process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about 1-2 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: Visit https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/howto/application/status/. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.