FACILITIES SERVICES SPECIALIST

Full Job Description

Join the team! This position is located in the Office of Facilities Services (EXFS).

The Office provides CPSC with the full range of facilities and support services, including, but not limited to, property management, building services, rent, managing Common Cost Budget, Personal Identification Verification (PIV) issuer and enrollment, safety, physical security management, office services, printing, metro transit benefit program, and warehousing and sample management programs.

All applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Extensive knowledge of space planning and management in order to provide adequately for functional requirements; and 2) Experience solving new or unusual technical problems in at least two of the following areas: building construction, maintenance, alterations, and operations to meet programmatic requirements for laboratories, testing operations, and/or other special purpose uses.

Evidence of the above specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.

Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience or based on job titles alone.

If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

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. Applicants must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement. Major Duties:

The incumbent is responsible for developing, evaluating and administering the full range of safety programs for the Commission.

Develops CPSC policies and procedures for all safety matters applicable to CPSC's workforce nation-wide.

This includes programs unique to the special requirements of the Laboratories such as, Chemical Hazards, Respirator Protection and Handling Light Explosives.

Develops and administers Interagency Agreements that provides for storage and testing of hazardous materials. Conducts on-site safety inspections of all of the CPSC locations.

Represents the Commission at meetings at the Department of Labor and other federal agencies safety forums.

The incumbent serves as the Contracting Officer Technical Representative for the material handler, warehouseman and labor.

Provides oversight of contractor performance for assigned functions to provide services in accordance with the terms of contracts.

Writes statement of work and related documents to initiate actions to meet administrative contracting needs of the agency.

Manages the CPSC Headquarters, Laboratory and Warehouse facilities physical security program for three locations in the Washington Metro area.

Based on Commission, program and directorate requirements, designs and installs new security systems, modifies and alters existing systems to fulfill needs.

Ensures that each facility is operating under standard procedures and that all alarms and monitoring systems are operating as designed.

The incumbent is responsible for the Commission's Sample Management Program, which is compliance-related and vital to mission accomplishment.

Responsibilities include the receipt, "chain of custody" control at every transfer point up to and included destruction, inventory management, transportation, and destruction or destructive testing of product samples gathered by investigators and forwarded to CPSC Headquarters for testing and possible litigation.

The incumbent plans the efficient warehousing and distribution of samples as required by scientists, engineers and attorneys.