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Job opening: Interior Designer

Salary: $97 376 - 126 585 per year
City: Tacoma
Published at: Apr 18 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
As an Interior Designer, is responsible for implementing the interior design program as part of the Region 10 Public Buildings Service's program for the space delivery process. Provides technical design advice to other GSA, PBS personnel such as architects, engineers, and consultants on space planning and design issues. Location of position: GSA, Public Buildings Service, Planning Division, Tacoma, WA. We are currently filling one vacancy, but additional vacancies may be filled as needed.

Duties

Serves as an interior designer/project integrator for the Planning Division while supporting PBS mission across multiple business lines. Provides guidance and technical assistance to project teams as well as personally executing a variety of space planning projects. Provides and monitors space planning and interior design services to client agencies, typically completing space requests up to an excess of 35,000 square feet. Performs a combination of long and short range planning, requirements programming, space design (workplace engagement or project specific task), and space utilization determinations involving a variety of projects throughout the Region. Represents GSA as a technical advisor in design practices. Remains current on trends in design and ways to improve agency performance through innovative design. Integrates project management expertise delivering a variety of services to our customers. These services include but are not limited to requirements development and furniture specifications. Analyzes the existing space for possible redesign to meet better utilization of space and functional lines. Provides general cost analyses related to the redesign of the existing space through comprehensive examination of client's needs and how it relates practically to the space. Develops block plans and stacking strategies; evaluates corrective and preventative situations for the new space occupancy; analyzes adjacencies on offered buildings; negotiates actions, budgets, schedules and concept drawings with client agencies often incorporating complex modifications of these actions, due to unforeseen building restraints or restraints in budgeting activities as it relates to the lease or reimbursable items; and preparing approval documents necessary to complete the occupancy actions. Produces quality conceptual design drawings that incorporate knowledge and acquired skills in drafting, design, and consider construction techniques and specifications, color theory, AutoCAD (computer aided design), and a variety of technical programs that aid in design, visualization, and documenting design projects. Develops procurement package for customer agency furniture procurement action to include typical workstation designs, block furniture floor plans, vendor information, project time schedule, and installation information.

Requirements

  • US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
  • Meet all eligibility criteria within 30 days of the closing date
  • Meet time-in-grade within 30 days of the closing date, if applicable
  • Register with Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959

Qualifications

For each job on your resume, provide: the exact dates you held  each job (from month/year to month/year) number of hours per week you worked (if part time).     If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume. For a brief video on creating a Federal resume, click here. The GS-12 salary range starts at $97,376 per year.  If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. To qualify, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or higher in the Federal service. Specialized experience is preparing hard-line drawings for required design intent documents e.g. demolition/renovation plans, furniture plans, etc.; surveying an agency's space, equipment, work flow, communication and organizational requirements; developing an agency's space and related requirements; specifying furniture and related furnishings; reading and interpreting basic architectural drawings; coordination and designing total interior finish schemes and materials. Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study - interior design or other field that included or was supplemented by at least 30 semester hours in interior design, interior architecture, or interior environmental design; or passage of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) examination.

Education

Note: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit:   https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/ 

Contacts

  • Address GSA, Public Buildings Service General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) 1800 F Street NW Washington, District of Columbia 20405 United States
  • Name: Rhonda Gibbs
  • Phone: 253-931-7742
  • Email: [email protected]

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