Designated a unit of the National Park System in 1972, Gateway National Recreation Area encompasses approximately 26,000 acres. With a remarkable concentration of cultural, natural, and recreational treasures in an urban setting. The park includes a large number of complex former military fortifications and facilities in two states. The lands making up the recreation area were assembled from a variety of ownership - military, other federal, state, county, city and private.

Duties

The incumbent serves as the Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist for the Gateway National Recreation Area and reports directly to the GS-14 Program Manager, Facility Management Division or Program Manager Business Management. The duty station is located at the Staten Island Unit (Staten Island, New York). The Supervisory Facility Operations Specialist is responsible for providing facility management support for all Units of the park having a widely diversified infrastructure and operational complexity. This position supports the operations, staffing, management, maintenance, repair, and construction of park facilities, including buildings, utilities, trails, roads, and other physical assets. These duties provide stewardship of hundreds of assets/facilities ensuring visitor use and enjoyment as well as the protection of natural and cultural resources. The major duties of the position will include: building effective relationships working with senior park leadership, division leads, and unit facility managers and staff on project and maintenance issues; facilitating the planning of cyclic projects for all units, creating cost estimates, scopes of work, contracting submissions, and managing funding and projects; coordinating both permanent and seasonal hiring actions to provide continuity of staff resources to maintain all assets effectively; integrating safety in all operations and projects to eliminate at-risk behaviors and environments and enforce regulatory policies and mandates for safety; use of expert level knowledge of Facility Management and Project Management systems to create projects and track maintenance operation activities; provides training to park staff in facility management systems and other NPS processes as required; uses knowledge of the mission, organization, and goals of the National Park Service to preserve and maintain all park resources.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/21/2025-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. EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: This experience includes activities such as: demonstrated experience overseeing/leading facility operations and maintenance activities in roads and grounds maintenance, repair, and restoration; oversee/lead operations, maintenance, and restoration of historic structures; planning maintenance activities and developing preventive maintenance programs for a park, recreational area, or similar operation; responsible for a comprehensive safety and training program to mitigate at-risk behaviors and environments. Responsible for developing employees; etc. OR have specific course work that meets the requirements for a major in a particular field(s) such as engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration. You must include hours per week worked. You must include hours per week worked. 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(s) of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Gateway National Recreation Area 210 New York Avenue Staten Island, NY 10305 US
• Name: Eric Panknin
• Email: eric_panknin@nps.gov