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SUPERVISORY FACILITY OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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Salary

$106,437 - $138,370

per year

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GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a team to manage and oversee building maintenance, repairs, and construction projects at a U.S.

Navy base in Djibouti, Africa, including planning work, coordinating with teams, and ensuring projects stay on track.

It's a temporary one-year assignment in a challenging desert environment with long hours and basic living conditions, ideal for someone with experience in facilities management who wants international exposure and is comfortable with supervision and problem-solving in tough settings.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in facilities sustainment, repair, maintenance, and construction project management
  • Ability to coordinate and lead complex work requirements like surveying, inspecting, estimating, and monitoring projects
  • Skills in interacting with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues, set priorities, and ensure timely project completion
  • Knowledge of facilities planning, programming, funding, maintenance execution plans (MEP), maintenance action plans (MAP), and long-range maintenance plans (LRMP)
  • Supervisory experience including providing leadership, delegating authority, setting performance standards, conducting appraisals, and managing leave
  • Willingness to work in a harsh overseas environment with long shifts (12-16 hours), potential health risks, and shared basic living quarters
  • Ability to obtain necessary physical exams, immunizations, and contingency support readiness

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist in the Public Works Department (PWD) of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic.

This position is a 100% TDY position to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa. This is a full-time temporary assignment not to exceed 1 year.

May be filled as a temporary promotion or a temporary reassignment.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as: 1) coordinating and/or leading a wide variety of complex and/or major work requirements associated with surveying, inspecting, programming, scoping, estimating, designing, monitoring, reviewing, and managing facilities sustainment, repair and maintenance, construction projects, and service contracts for a wide variety of clients; 2) interacting, via meetings or other methods, with internal and external stake holders to resolve issues of facilities job status, priorities, milestones, tracking procedures and schedules to eliminate conflicts and facilitate timely project completion; 3) applying knowledge/experience in facilities planning, programming and funding, such as maintenance execution, maintenance action, and long range maintenance plans (MEP, MAP, LRMP), to assess and advise supported clients on feasibility of their requirements; and 4) providing supervision, leadership and direction to subordinate facilities operations specialists by delegating specific authority to carry out their respective responsibilities while establishing employee performance standards, conducting performance appraisals, and establishing leave schedules and approval guidelines.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1600/facility-operations-services-series-1640/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Work Environment: Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa is located in a harsh environmental setting with adverse weather conditions for many months of the year (excessive heat, humidity, and rain) and working in areas populated by poisonous snakes, plants, and/or insects, and contagious diseases and poor air quality, chemical handling areas, and damp and unheated spaces.

The work may require extensive work shifts of 12-16 hours a day and more than a 5 day workweek.

Generally, indoor work location has power, water, heating and air conditioning, although outages should be expected.

The incumbent will be required to live on the camp, where living quarters are a container living unit (CLU), which may be very cramped with the requirement to share bathroom facilities.

Initial living quarters may be a tent. Fatigue may occur from long work hours and uncomfortable living conditions.

The position may be required to provide immediate contingency support requiring a physical and immunizations deemed necessary for the environment in which this support is provided.

Incumbent is entitled to 25% Post Differential pay. Potential benefits for working in Djibouti: Ability to gain international work experience.

Professional development by working in an area at the forefront of construction and community growth. High potential for overtime pay.

Local Market Supplement (based on parent command location) Imminent Danger Pay - $225/month (first 42 days) Post Differential Allowance - currently 25% of base pay (beginning day 43+) Major Duties:

  • You will direct, control and coordinate assigned operations within the Facilities Management Department by the utilization of broad knowledge of facilities management, technical and administrative skills.
  • You will resolve technical, scientific, engineering, and design problems beyond the capacity of your support personnel.
  • You will formulate budget requirements using the NAVFAC RAP Process, taking into account future plans, managing payroll, training and other overhead requirements.
  • You will implement improvements and cost saving procedures in operations.
  • You will be responsible for continuous process improvements and personnel skills, equipment and facilities use and replacement, and development and marketing of better maintenance and contracting services.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/19/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/19/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12891874-26-CJW