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Supervisory Facilities Operations Specialist
Defense Intelligence Agency · Washington, District of Columbia · Closes in 9 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Veterans, National Guard and reserves, Federal employees - Excepted service.
The job is open to the public, but all applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application. Current federal employees in the excepted service, veterans (and some spouses, widows, widowers, or parents of veterans), and National Guard and reserve members are also covered by the announcement.
Experience: Specialized experience is required for positions above GG-5. Examples include managing a building or installation maintenance program, overseeing contractor construction or maintenance work, and doing or estimating construction or maintenance work and costs.
Education: Undergraduate or graduate study in engineering, industrial arts, property management, or business administration can qualify you instead of experience. The school must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 9 days (November 12, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well your application shows you meet the listed qualifications and assessment factors, which cover communication, analysis, working relationships, planning, and leading facilities studies. Missing required information may result in an ineligible rating or a lower overall rating.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Sensitive Compartmented Information), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Apply through DIA's online system at dia.mil, using the 6-digit Job Opening ID number from the announcement
- If you use education to qualify, list only schools accredited by a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accrediting body
- Final applications cannot be revised, so submit a new application if you need to make changes
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