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Summary This position is located in the Indian Affairs (IA), Office of Facilities, Property and Safety Management (OFPSM), Division of Facilities Management and Construction (DFMC), Branch of Planning and Design. The incumbent reports to the Division Chief, DFMC. The mission of the DFMC is to ensure the efficient and effective stewardship of resources for new construction, renovation, and maintenance of Bureau-funded facilities. Responsibilities Provides guidance and oversight to the national IA-wide design and construction programs. Provides operation oversight on planning, and design of all replacement projects, renovations, major improvements and repairs of complex, large dollar value, high profile capital investment projects in the respective program areas. Plans work, sets priorities, assigns work, evaluates performance, counsels on technical and administrative matters. Interviews, recommends and assigns new employees. Hears and resolves complaints, and determines minor disciplinary measures. Identifies developmental and training needs to subordinates. Develops Business Cases and has overall program oversight of project schedules, cost estimates, budgets, technical reviews of designs, shop drawings, specifications, and contractor performance ensure conformance. Leads meetings with planning and design managers and environmental and technical engineering staff that are responsible and accountable for accomplishment of events, milestones, tasks, and action items of action plans. Evaluates planning documents and designs for conformance to establish programs of requirements, codes and standards compliance, energy efficiency, constructability, and overall functionality. Consults with stakeholders, makes all required corrections and changes to the design as determined to be necessary. Coordinates with Branch of Asset Management for the development of the Housing Needs Analysis. Reviews Facility Condition Index with Branch of Asset Management team. Coordinates with Branches of Education Construction, Education FI and R and Public Safety and Justice (PS and J) Construction and FI and R to develop manage relative priorities and implantation plans for replacement and FI and R projects. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications GS-13: To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level performing of the following: (1) Managing a facilities planning and design program; (2) Preparing or reviewing planning and design cost estimates and/or budgets; (3) Presenting program information orally and in writing; and (4) Assigning work to subordinates in an engineering or architectural field. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. All applicants must submit copies of a full set of transcripts and current Professional Engineer or Architect license/registration along with their application to verify qualification requirements. Education If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement. If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society. One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html Additional Information All new hires earn the beginning salary of their pay grade (Step 1). See 2025 Salary Tables here, select the pay chart for Albuquerque, New Mexico. If no specific chart is listed for this geographic location, see the "rest of U.S." chart. Career Transition Assistance Programs: These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: (1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; (2) be rated well-qualified for the position with a score of 85 or above; and, (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility. For more information visit: http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee\_guides/career\_transition.asp . Former Federal Employees are required to indicate whether they received a Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) buyout in their previous employment with the Federal government, and are required to submit a copy of the applicable Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) regarding the VSIP. The majority of individuals, who accept reemployment with the Federal government within 5 years of receiving the VSIP amount, must repay the gross amount of the separation pay prior to reemployment. If you are unable to apply online, require reasonable accommodation in the application process if you are an applicant with a disability, or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.