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This series covers two-grade interval positions that supervise, lead, or perform administrative work that involves operating and maintaining buildings, grounds, and other facilities such as posts, bases, shipyards, depots, medical or health care facilities, power plants, navigation locks, parks, forests, and roadways.  The work requires administrative knowledge and skills and broad technical knowledge of the operating capabilities and maintenance requirements of various kinds of facilities, physical plants, and equipment.   This series typically involves coordinating and directing work performed by a variety of trades and labor employees and requires broad knowledge of such work; however, this knowledge is not a paramount qualification requirement.

The basic title for this occupation is Facility Operations Specialist.

General Occupational Information

Facility operations specialists operate facilities including physical structures, utilities, roadways, and surrounding grounds.  Physical structures include buildings such as office buildings, hospitals, cultural institutions, historic buildings, and other types of government-owned buildings.   Cultural institutions include facilities such as museums and libraries.   Facility operations includes programs and services essential to maintain a safe, healthy, and comfortable facility.

Facility operations specialists perform a variety of administrative services in the following programs and services functions:

• maintain, repair, or modify facilities by:
• upgrading or replacing utility systems;
• inspecting physical structures, utilities, roadways, and surrounding grounds; and
• planning and overseeing work performed by carpenters, electricians, utility system(s) operators, janitors, and/or others; and
• operate facility programs and services efficiently by:
• assuring compliance with all certification, safety, fire prevention, and security program requirements;
• inspecting and directing activities providing services such as plumbing, utility, water and sewage treatment, telephone, janitorial, and elevator service;
• inspecting contractors’ work for compliance with specifications or standards;
• determining and projecting funding requirements; and
• justifying budget requests.

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