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Facility Services Assistant

U.S. Coast Guard | San Pedro, CA

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Posted Date 3/12/2025
Description This vacancy is for a GS-1603-7, Facility Services Assistant located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, BASE LOS ANGELES LONG BEACH FACILITIES ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT -F, San Pedro, CA.

You will serve as a Facility Services Assistant and be responsible for a wide variety of support functions including facilities maintenance management, procurement requests, department budget tracking, and electronic systems manager responsibilities in support of internal management operations and management of workload for the Public Works Division.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

  • Managing the department's facilities maintenance software program, the Shore Asset Management System (SAMS) used for scheduling and tracking recurring preventive maintenance (PM) items and non-recurring corrective maintenance work order requests, maintaining real property and equipment records, and tracking materials and funding.
  • Scheduling all routine and repetitive work order to the Facilities Engineering Department (FED) shops and checking completed work orders for required input prior to entering data.
  • Utilizing SAMS to issue and schedule routine Preventive Maintenance (PM), repair and replacement of all equipment and machinery.
  • Preparing, or assisting in preparing, monthly, quarterly, and annual maintenance and operational program reports which may include major items of repair, problems occurring, and information affecting workload.
  • Making comparative analysis of actual costs versus estimates, reasons for delays when timetable was exceeded, impact of various changes or modification, or other topics for research evaluation.
  • Maintaining status of shop budgets, records, and tracking expenditures among shop accounts.

To qualify at the GS-07 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-06 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Specialized experience must include the following:

  • Preparing annual purchase requests for field maintenance contractual services (such as electric, telephone service, garbage pick-up, water, mowing and maintenance and janitorial).
  • Elevating inquiries about work order status, equipment maintenance history, work order numbers, trouble reports, outage requests, and other preventive maintenance questions.
  • Compiling, preparing, and generating various reports, records, statistics, listings, charts and graphs, or other preventive maintenance related information as requested.

NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level.

National Service Experience (i.e., 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.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Transcripts--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
Salary58,244.00 - 75,722.00 Annual

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