Are you a graduating student or a recent grad?  Join our Pathways Recent Graduate Program! This one-year program offers professional and technical training, mentoring and developmental opportunities. Location of position: Public Building Services, Design and Construction Division, Philadelphia, PA.We are currently filling one vacancy, but additional vacancies may be filled as needed.

Duties

You will serve as a Construction Management Specialist, an entry-level position designed to equip the incumbent with the knowledge and skills to perform at the target position of Construction Management Specialist GS-12.

Requirements

• US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
• Register with the Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959
• Direct Deposit of salary check to financial organization required.

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-07 salary range starts at $ 53,947.00 per year. The GS-09 salary range starts at $ 65,987.00 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. This position has an individual occupation requirement (IOR) that must be met to be considered. Please ensure to read the following section to ensure you meet these requirements. In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience. 1. Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- architecture, engineering, building construction, or other fields related to the position (transcripts must be provided with application) OR 2. Experience in the preparation or review of plans, specifications, or estimates of materials and costs for the construction, extension, alteration, or repair of buildings. Applicants should have knowledge of the residential construction field, and experience in the development of plans and specifications, and in negotiation work. This experience may have been obtained working as a contractor or as a draftsperson in an architectural engineering firm. However, any drafting experience must have provided an opportunity to acquire technical knowledge. Appropriate experience includes working with diverse construction materials (brick, lumber, reinforced concrete, steel) and types of structures (housing, single-family dwellings and multi-family apartment units, and industrial and commercial structures). Applicants should be familiar with matters such as planning a subdivision, laying out traffic flow in a multi-family apartment structure, or working out specification problems in plans. In addition to the IOR, you must possess the required specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity. GS-07 Specialized experience is at least one year of experience equivalent to the GS-05 level. Specialized experience is described as experience in the preparation or review of plans, specifications, or estimates of materials and costs for the construction, extension, alteration, or repair of buildings. GS-09 Specialized experience is at least one year of experience equivalent to the GS-07 level. Specialized experience is experience applying professional construction principles, concepts, and practices to perform routine assignments; determining the technical ramifications resulting from changes in such things as item design or customer requirements; and familiarity with related construction management practices. Superior Academic Achievement, if applicableSuperior Academic Achievement (SAA) at the baccalaureate level is fully qualifying at the GS-7 level.  To claim SAA, submit documentation of one of the following:1.      Class standing -- You must be in the upper third of your graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses.2.      Grade-point average (rounded to one decimal point) of: 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of your curriculum; or 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in your major field or the required courses in your major field completed during your final 2 years of the curriculum. 3.      Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society in one of the national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies. NOTE:  Qualifications are based on length and level of experience.  Therefore, in addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours per week if part time.  Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, so failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.  FAILURE TO SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS SHOWING EDUCATIONAL LEVEL WILL RESULT IN AN INCOMPLETE APPLICATION AND YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. 

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://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

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: Tashay McQueen
• Phone: 215-446-4973
• Email: [email protected]