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Posted: April 7, 2026 (2 days ago)

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FACILITIES OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

Defense Intelligence Agency

Department of Defense

Fresh

Location

Location not specified

Salary

$63,795 - $99,404

per year

Closes

SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and supporting facilities operations for a defense intelligence agency, including handling customer requests, monitoring projects, and ensuring smooth maintenance of buildings and infrastructure critical to national security.

A good fit would be someone with experience in facility management or construction oversight, strong communication skills, and a background in government or military environments who thrives in team-oriented settings.

It requires balancing mission priorities while applying technical knowledge to support agency programs.

Key Requirements

  • Undergraduate or graduate degree in engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration
  • Specialized experience managing maintenance programs for complex facilities like office buildings, hospitals, or military installations
  • Ability to respond to facility requests based on mission priorities and recommend appropriate procedures
  • Knowledge of DIA facilities, programs, and policies to apply competencies to stakeholders
  • Strong oral and written communication skills for clear responses to complex questions
  • Experience supporting logistics project management, IT operations, SCIF construction, or critical infrastructure protection (highly desired)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent (highly desired)

Full Job Description

We are committed to: Teamwork: Partnering at all levels and across organizational boundaries for mission accomplishment.

Integrity: Adherence to the highest legal and ethical principles in our responsibilities. Excellence: Unrivaled defense intelligence expertise.

Service: Putting the welfare of the Nation and commitment to our mission before oneself. ASSESSMENT FACTORS 1.

Responds to customers’ facility requests based on mission priorities and exercises the ability to re-consider and recommend the most appropriate procedure or precedent to follow. 2.

Supports senior facility managers/personnel regarding Agency facility program issues by maintaining data to monitor progress against established timelines and objectives. 3.

Exhibits functional knowledge of the technical concepts, procedures, and expertise related to area of responsibility and communicates their significance to a broader base of clients with limited guidance.

4. Exhibits foundational knowledge of DIA facilities, programs and policies when successfully applying facilities competencies to a broader audience of stakeholders with minimal guidance. 5.

Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills to compose and to deliver responses to moderately complex questions in a clear, concise, and organized manner. HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS 1.

Project Management Professional or equivalent certification and experience initiating, resourcing and managing projects. 2.

Demonstrates experience supporting Logistics Project Management, Intelligence IT/IT Operations, network design, implementation and maintenance, SCIF construction and accreditation, critical infrastructure protection, mission-critical facility operations, energy/utilities management, or emergency operations center facilities.

3.

Demonstrates experience at Combatant Command or Sub-unified Command, Department of Defense Components, Joint Staff, Military Services, Defense Agencies, or other large government organizations with complex facility operations.

Education Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration.

or Experience Specialized Experience (for positions above GG-5): 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 buildinGG to larger structures), directing actual work operations, and maintaining appropriate contacts with the organization funding the project.

Major Duties:

DIA employs a variety of professionals who serve throughout the workforce to ensure successful operations.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/7/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/9/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: 126819-01