Clarification from the agency

This Merit Promotion position is open to Current Federal Employees and Former Federal Employees with permanent status or reinstatement eligibility. Individuals who are eligible for a special appointing authority may also apply such as Individuals with Disabilities (Schedule A), former Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, and Vista volunteers; certain Military Spouses, or individuals eligible under various programs for Veterans (VRA, VEOA, 30% disabled).

In this position, you will:

• Plan and carry out the full range of supervisory and managerial authorities related to assigning work, setting and adjusting priorities, coordinating with other programs, providing management advisory services, technical work direction.
• Guide consistent methodologies used by team in reporting, correlation, and analysis of data; establish CMMS techniques, principles, and procedures to formulate strategies that guide improvements in data maintenance and reporting.
• Direct the planning and scheduling, forecasting, and preparation of all planned maintenance job activities. Ensure that planned jobs are completely documented, resourced and coordinated through the application of industry best practices, quality assurance, and after-action reviews.
• Oversee the Predictive Maintenance group, managing initial asset information, condition documentation, equipment commissioning verification, establishment of baselines for condition¬ based monitoring technologies. Develop monitoring strategies for collection of asset condition information based on individual criticality assessments of the Asset.
• Provide authoritative and expert professional advice on maintenance, reliability, and life cycle management issues and serve as a consultant to management and engineers on Federal laws, regulations, directives, standards and new industrial guidelines, techniques in application of predictive technologies

Conditions of employment

• Pass Pre-employment Background Investigation
• May need to complete a Probationary Period
• Maintain a Bank Account for Direct Deposit/Electronic Transfer
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service

Conditions of Employment

Qualification requirements, including one year time-in-grade at the next lower grade level for promotion candidates, must be met by the closing date of the announcement. See the 'Required Documents' section for additional information.

For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions viewable on OPM Website.

Qualifications

Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Service.  For this position, specialized experience is defined as managing a facilities maintenance support team, that was responsible for the administration of a computerized maintenance management system, processes, projects, development of maintenance schedules, procedures and safety requirements using the best maintenance and management practices.

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.

Part-time and/or unpaid experience related to this position will be considered to determine the total number of years and months of experience. Be sure to note the number of paid or unpaid hours worked each week.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your application will be evaluated first for the basic qualifications described above.  The applications that meet the basic qualifications will be evaluated further against the following criteria:

• The ability to set performance standards for subordinate supervisors and evaluate their performance; serves as reviewer for appraisals they make of their subordinates and the ability to evaluate the work performance of subordinates; set priorities and give advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.

• Knowledge of techniques that apply to computer maintenance management systems (CMMS), data management principles, best practices for data quality and reporting of asset life cycle information.

• The ability to direct the development of professional maintenance plans that provide work guidance, procedural instruction, forecasting of work, and facilitates the coordination of maintenance activities to all stakeholders.

• Knowledge of typical facility equipment, data collection / monitoring, that applies best suited predictive technology and knowledge of asset commissioning and best practices to establish equipment acceptability and baseline monitoring strategies.

• Presents technical conclusions and recommendations, defends conclusions to support consideration for strategic decisions made by Senior Leadership of SI and Skill in written and oral communications in development of maintenance procedural guidance, standards, and proposals. Providing presentations to diverse stakeholders within and outside the Smithsonian.

• BASIS OF RATING:  Once the announcement closes, your application will be automatically evaluated and rated by the system and a Human Resources Specialist. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your application and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. The score is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of this position. If, after the Human Resources Specialist reviews your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that the score you have received is not a true reflection of your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect the information you provided that support your abilities. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. Your resume should provide detailed information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed.
  
  Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA):  If you are applying for a VEOA appointment, you must be a veteran and must be honorably separated and either a preference eligible or have substantially completed 3 or more years of active service. ("Active Service" under this law means active duty in a uniformed service and includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, full-time National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the active service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned.) A veteran who is released under honorable conditions shortly before completing a 3-year tour is also eligible.