Total 7 Construction / Property job vacancies in Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida

This position is located in the Southeast Sunbelt Region (R4) within Atlanta, GA or Fort Lauderdale, FL. The incumbent will be expected to report to a GSA facility in the Southeast Sunbelt Region at least 2x per pay period.

• Provides policy oversight and expertise for specialists assigned major capital lease projects to ensure customer satisfaction and attainment of all organizational and project goals and objectives.
• Ensures projects are completed in accordance with GSA policies and ensures all reasonable steps are taken to ensure projects are completed within each project’s budget and schedule. 
• Identifies practices and procedures which deviate from prescribed policies and procedures, directs appropriate corrective actions, and monitors its progress.
• Anticipates and resolves project related problems to the maximum extent possible within vested authority, negotiates resolution of problems not within the authority of specialists negotiating and administering contracts related to these projects, and develops contingency plans to mitigate the impact of unresolved problems.
• Assures timely accomplishment of all tasks assigned to specialists, assuring each specialist has an integral role in developing the final product or service, articulates and communicates to specialists’ problems to be solved or program issues under review, ensures the organization’s vision is integrated into the project goals.
• Provides expert advice on specific tasks and makes available written instructions, reference materials, and relevant background material, maintains current knowledge and answers questions from specialists assigned to projects on procedures, policies and directives, as needed.
• Serve on a variety of committees and task forces involving persons internal and external to GSA at a national level.
• Responsibility for the business management of the most complex, long range (3-5 years), lease projects from the preliminary planning stage through the development of the Solicitation for Offers, negotiation objectives, source selection criteria, and other elements comprising all aspects of the capital projects. Assignments encompass responsibilities such as planning, organizing, controlling, coordinating, reviewing and approving lease procurements and related work performed by other GSA organizations.
• Facilitates the effort and expertise of numerous staff members within various disciplines. Works with personnel in various disciplines including but not limited to project development, building management, realty, engineering and architecture, construction, contracting, lease budget and finance, security, quality assurance, environmental, historic preservation, valuation, and business and government management.

• Monitors and controls major segments of a variety of difficult and complex project plans and specifications.
• Maintains surveillance over complicated structures involving complex construction problems.
• Determines need for project changes, estimates cost, and develops project modifications.
• Serves as liaison between the contracting officer and the project engineer.

• You will develop construction program execution schedules to verify progress is made within established timeframes.
• You will execute construction within cost and schedule constraints to ensure adherence to performance or budgetary requirements.
• You will recommend strategies to eliminate obstacles to achieve program goals.
• You will coordinate construction operations between a contractor and an organization or client to verify project completion within established timeframes.
• You will supervise a group of construction manager, engineers and engineering technicians.

In order to qualify for this position, resumes must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the position. Applicant resumes are the key means for evaluating skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position therefore, applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing experience.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Assists with ongoing efforts of sustaining the Procurement Management and Assistance Program (PMAP) in direct support of the NAF project acquisitions program. Coordinates applicable Statements of Work; specialized shipping/packaging/marking instructions; inspection and acceptance provisions; delivery or performance requirements; contract administration elements; specialized provisions; and any necessary attachments; instructions for offerors and evaluation factors. These materials will be assembled into established solicitation packages with contract formatted documents consistent with the policies applicable to the methods of contracting (sealed bid, negotiated, and/or simplified acquisitions).
• Obtains all appropriate pre-solicitation clearances, including those required by MWRDIVINST 7043.2, CNICINST 7043.1, and SECNAVINST 7043.5C as amended; applicable sections of the Federal Acquisition Regulation; those required by the delegation of authority under which the initiative is operating; counsel, and others appropriate to the method of construction contracting.
• Supports the solicitation process, including advertising through appropriate means; establishment and continual update of prospective offerors/source lists; the receipt and evaluation of capability statements from prospective offerors/sources, and the prequalification of vendors.
• Supports the pre-solicitation and/or pre-proposal phases of acquisitions through leading and/or supporting the meetings on-site and at the installations, and will conduct site tours as appropriate, ensuring equity to all prospective offerors or sources.
• Supports and/or leads source selection activities of both a formal and informal nature, including spearheading source selection teams and oversight of the proposal evaluation stages. May also participate in the selection of the successful offeror, including the award of the resultant contract, and the subsequent notification and debriefing (if requested) of the unsuccessful offerors or bidders.
• Conducts all post-award contract administration functions through contract close-out for those assigned actions. This includes the post-award review of bonds; leading and/or participating in pre-construction meetings; coordinating with the administrative contracting officer source (commercial Title II, local FEAD, Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and local MWR/CSP staff); general and/or specific oversight of contractor and ACO performance; oversight of the payment process; change order control, and implementation of any necessary changes through the preparation and negotiation of any necessary contract modifications, supplemental agreements, option exercises, or other contractual means; and subcontracting oversight and performance monitoring.
• Supports the Region NAF Construction Contracting requirements in all other functional areas of contract administration, such as terminations for default or convenience, "cure notice" and "show cause" processes, post-performance assessment, and warranty administration.
• Develops and maintains contact with Department of Defense (DoD) and other Government agencies, with educational entities and trade associations, and with industry representatives for the purposes of exchanging information, evaluating proposals and establishing mutual positions for improving the construction contracting programs. The incumbent will manage and coordinate a wide range of meetings, conferences, and other forums with Government, commercial and educational entities to facilitate improvements in the construction contracting acquisition processes.
• Assists with the established MWR Director level NAF construction contracting warrant program, including the contracting officer nomination and selection processes. These actions will be coordinated with the Branch Head and Section Head, NAF Construction Contracting Section.
• Identifies processes that will lead to more efficient and effective business functions.
• Develops and evaluates innovative methods for facilities design, construction, and contracting.

• Assure that all construction is accomplished in accordance with proper quality control, assurance procedures, and governing plans and specifications.
• Approve contractors’ construction schedules and quality control procedures.
• Confer with contractors to solicit advice in resolving design problems.
• Receive and check for contract compliance of technical submittals from contractor such as shop drawings, catalog cuts, samples, certification of compliance, and test results.
• Prepare change order documentation on field originated and engineering originated change orders.
• Modify documents to ensure compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations.

This position is located within the Division of Facility Management at Everglades National Park and is duty stationed at park headquarters in Homestead Florida. The Supervisory Interdisciplinary (Branch Chief Design and Construction) is responsible for, and has authority to, initiate, establish, guide, and control a broad range of project planning, design and construction efforts from inception through completion.

• Supervises an interdisciplinary staff of professional designers (engineers/architects/landscape architects) and project managers to accomplish this work within Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks.
• Reviews and manages the Facility Management Division's annual operating budget and project budgets, adjusting account allocations over time throughout the fiscal year. Accommodates provisions for adequate staffing, completion of routine administrative work, purchase of supplies and materials, employee training and travel, AE management, and execution of specially funded projects within respective operating funds and project budgets.
• Serves as the park's Facility Management Division lead contracting officer's representative (COR). Requests funding clearance for contract modifications from WASO/Region or other authority as appropriate. Coordinates review of submittals and word of on-sight inspector, Oversees project closure (closeout: post occupancy, warranty review, as built).
• Leads and manages the park's environmental management system and maintains up to date, accurate records of the park's environmental liabilities.
• Responsible for the on-the-job safety and health of all employees supervised. Initiates efforts conforming to established local and bureau safety programs to satisfy this responsibility.

• You will provide assistance and technical guidance as the Construction Schedule Analyst in support of planning, engineering, design, procurement, and construction.
• You will participate in Cost Schedule Risk Analysis (CSRA) process as necessary during the planning and design development phases.
• You will develop, maintain, and provide scheduling requirements and supporting software training to Cost, Schedule, and Risk community
• You will work independently and takes required actions through their own initiative, experience, and foresight on all assigned projects.
• You will provide leadership to the scheduling technical community to ensure consistency in process and execution.
• You will review the scope of individual construction projects and propose reasonable construction duration to be included in the RFP or solicitation.
• You will manage multiple priorities and, when requested, independently develop and provide technical recommendations/solutions regarding scheduling issues and time impacts.