This position serves as the Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist (Chief of Maintenance) for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GLBA) in the maintenance division.

Duties

Glacier Bay is a 3.3 million-acre park that combines maritime wilderness, mountain ranges and wilderness, ice fields and some of the world's largest glaciers. Marine waters make up nearly one-fifth of the park, mountain ranges rising to over 15,000 feet, and coastal beaches with protected coves. Many of the sites within the park are reachable only by air or water. The park is off the road system and accessible only by the Alaska Marine Highway System Ferry and commuter airlines. Alaska Airlines jet service is available daily during the summer. The gateway community of Gustavus has a grocery store, library, K-12 school, restaurants, lodges, internet service, regional medical clinic, veterinarian, and abundant recreational opportunities. This position serves as Chief of Maintenance. Duties include: Manage and direct a complex facility management organization. Serve as Facility Manager, developing and implementing programs to ensure adequate maintenance, repair, and operations of buildings, utilities, roads, trails, vehicles, and vessel fleet. Perform the full range of personnel management responsibilities. Develop and manage cyclic, repair and rehabilitation, and construction projects. Serve as a member of the park's management team, establishing policies, goals and objectives, operating procedures, guidelines, and internal controls. Develop and maintain facility projects, including developing and reviewing estimates, annual planned workloads and funding availability for the planned work. Assess overall project impact to visitors and staff such as availability of project staging areas and sequencing of planned work. Ensure adherence to National Park Service (NPS) policies, standards, and programs for all projects. For more information regarding the duties or duty station, please contact Tom Schaff, Park Superintendent (acting), at [email protected]

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-08/02/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Managing a facilities maintenance program, including managing a multi-fund source budget, 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; or performing maintenance or construction work, including estimating material and labor costs for a variety of construction or maintenance projects, directing actual work operations, and maintaining appropriate contacts with the organization funding the project. You must include hours per week worked in your resume. When describing the nature of your duties (e.g., your paid or unpaid work or volunteer experience), please be extremely clear, thorough, and specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience. Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire. For additional information on what to include in your resume, click here. For information on what you should leave out of your resume, click here. The following five-minute video may also be helpful for creating and updating your federal resume: click here. Volunteer Experience: 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.

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve P O Box 140 Gustavus, AK 99826 US
• Name: Tracy Noetzelman
• Phone: 907-317-3990
• Email: [email protected]