Total 541 job vacancies in Los Angeles, California

As a Facilities Operations Specialist, at the full performance level, you will perform the following duties:

- Manages the oversight of contractor performance for a preventative maintenance program for building systems
- Monitors the implementation of maintenance methods, standards and techniques.
- Monitors and inspects work done by contractors for adherence to state and Federal regulations, conformance specifications, requirements, and compliance with applicable building and safety codes.
- Monitors the activities of all maintenance, renovation, remodeling and new construction projects to ensure performance is in accordance with building code procedures.


Salary: The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the lowest and highest potential salaries for this position. The actual salary range will be based on the applicable locality pay for the selected duty location. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.

• Responsible for planning, managing, coordinating and executing a variety of administrative programs and procedures to facilitate accomplishment of Range Division’s operations.
• Apply a well-founded knowledge of administrative plans, programs, policies, and procedures during the conduct of all assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Manage and performs a wide variety of administrative support services.
• Serve as the central Point of Contact for all Range Division administrative matters.
• Provide advice and assistance to all division personnel regarding the proper application of administrative policies, procedures, and Department of Army regulations.
• Exercise responsibility for the efficient and effective operation of the Range Division administrative function.

• You will execute development/implementation of policies, procedures, standards, training, and methods for identifying and protecting information, personnel, property, facilities, operations, or material from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, or loss.
• You will perform technical and other administrative work to ensure the safeguarding of the most sensitive information and work operations of the personnel and information security programs for CSFWP.
• You will assist the Command GSSO in overall long range planning and execution of policy and procedures.
• You will attend and provide security guidance at program technical meetings.
• You will Assist with site surveys and physical security accreditations.
• You will assist in conducting onsite physical or industrial security inspections or assistance visits and assisting in the evaluation of findings and development of recommendations for changes.
• You will conduct inquires of reported security violations and adjudicate reported discrepancies.
• You will coordinate and conduct destruction of classified materials.
• You will assign control numbers and maintain all logs and records, computerized and hard copy, associated with classified material.
• You will assist in developing and managing the Threat Awareness Reporting Program.
• You will develop plans and policies in accordance with regulatory guidance regarding threat awareness and reporting procedures, and reports to higher authority as required.
• You will conduct and document annual training for local personnel, including staff, contractors, and other facility users with security clearances.

Major duties include the following:

• Manages and administers housing program; managing operations and utilization of family housing facilities, including seasonal housing, housing allocation process, and coordination of maintenance and repair procedures.
• Reviews expenditures for housing operations, develops recommendations for resources, and formulates budget (accounting income and expenditures).
• Coordinates leasing opportunities in the local commuting areas, advises local program participants in preparing budgets, required reports, and budget reviews.
• Arranges temporary lodging of visitors or guests in commercial facilities (hotels, motels, etc.) during unusual peak occupancy periods.

WHAT IS THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY SERVICES (FMSS) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Facilities Management and Security Services Operations West

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• Provide expert advice on the diverse aspects of the Service's emergency management program, including development of policy, plans, and procedures related to mission essential functions and the coordination of mission critical information technology systems required to support them. Recommend policy relative to departmental physical security and emergency preparedness and is considered to be an expert of all aspects of emergency management.

• Support the Service's emergency operations to ensure emergency response and mitigation during an event, as well as employee safety and the security of information and other assets. Provide expert advice and/or guidance on measures which ensure the maintenance of day-to-day operations capabilities; the maintenance of emergency preparedness; as well as assume responsibility for emergency planning and response policies, plans, tests, training and exercises.
• Develop plans necessary to ensure the Services' aggressive and full compliance with Presidential Decision Directives (PDDs) and Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPDs), as well as its Agency specific needs. Serve as the Service's.
• Conduct detailed analyses of complex functions and work processes of broad administrative and technical programs and makes recommendations for improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in the development and maintenance of the Service's Emergency Operations Center representative on committees and work groups with other agencies/bureaus concerning emergency preparedness, planning and response activities (EOC). Assignments are related to Departmental responsibilities regarding potential emergency situations, emergency plans, procedures, equipment, rosters, and systems.

• You will be responsible for the development, all related technical issues, and execution of facilities engineering projects.
• You will be a project manager and responsible for successful execution of awarded contracts and successful completion of self-performed inspections.
• You will perform project development duties to include site planning identification of technical deficiency, development of Design/Build scope of work, cost estimates and acquisition documentation necessary for solicitation of appropriate contracts.
• You will prepare and conduct structural calculations and analysis.

• You will follow safety practices and procedures in the operation of vehicles.
• You will interpret instructions or specifications related to bus operations, preventive maintenance, and passenger safety.
• You will load, arrange, and secure cargo into vehicle using techniques and equipment (e.g., chains, binders, straps, tie-downs) for safe transit.
• You will operate vehicles with the gross weight of more than 32,000lbs; vehicles that are oversized and/or equipped with more than one body or two braking systems.
• You will perform minor repairs or adjustments on vehicles.
• You will perform operator maintenance on all vehicles operated.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.

As a Land Management Law Enforcement Officer your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

• Serves as a commissioned law enforcement officer performing law enforcement duties that have been enacted to insure the protection and safe use of National Wildlife Refuge System resources.
• Familiarizes other law enforcement personnel with Federal and state laws governing management of natural resources and maintains liaisons, exchanges information, and coordinates ongoing law enforcement activities.
• In direct coordination with the Patrol Captain, provides liaison and coordinates prosecution of cases with the state and local courts.
• Coordinates activities with the Patrol Captain on all multi-jurisdictional law enforcement operations and investigations with other Federal, state, and local agencies, including all civil and criminal case investigations.
• Provides assistance to local law enforcement agencies, including occasional emergency assistance.

These positions are located at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in the Division of Interpretation, Education and Partnerships, and are supervised by the parks' Transportation Specialist. These parks receive significant visitation (~1.7 million annually) and administratively are among the most complex units of the National Park Service. These parks include some 550 permanent and temporary federal employees as well as over 1,000 volunteers who provide a wide range of public service and support operations which are similar to operations more typically found in a municipal city. These are five major divisions, each of which is further subdivided into functional branches.

Duties:

• Monitors vehicular traffic levels against pedestrian traffic and controls intersections with regards to safety and smooth flow of vehicles.
• Monitors parking lots, directing vehicles including buses and recreational vehicles to appropriate parking stalls.
• Answers a variety of visitor questions.
• Explains regulations to park visitors and provides information and advice on park activities and cultural, historic, and/or natural resources history and location.
• Provides public orientation and explanations of current park events and informs visitors of potential safety hazards.
• Provides a wide range of services to visitors, including assistance with lost articles, lost parties, car trouble, and first aid (within parameters of current certification); and provides information about weather conditions, highway routes, park and concessioner facilities, and prices.
• Reports to supervisor and public use/recreation/traffic violations or individual visitor use problems or problematic trends, describes extend of problem and makes on the spot corrections whenever appropriate, reports names of witnesses and/or involved persons when possible. Anticipates traffic/parking management problems and suggestions to immediate supervisor.

WHAT IS THE Taxpayer Advocate Service-(TAS) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), Executive Director Case Advocacy (EDCA), Area 6

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of
  assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluates work performance of subordinates and makes recommendations for outstanding performance
  recognition or disciplinary action.
• Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Interviews candidates for positions in the unit; recommends appointment, promotion, or reassignment to
  such positions.
• Hears and resolves complaints from employees, referring group grievances and more serious unresolved
  complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager.

Joining the Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations will allow you to use your expertise to detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the U.S.

This position starts at a salary of $134,550.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $174,920.00 (GS-13, Step 10)

In this position you will become a key member of a team of Homeland Security professionals detecting and preventing terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the U.S. Typical work assignments include:

• Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, and evaluating agricultural quarantine inspection program activities, including enforcement of the Plant Protection Act, Animal Health Protection Act, Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, Honeybee Act, Federal Seed Act, Lacey Act, and Endangered Species Act at the Field Office level.
• Serving as a technical consultant and provides expert guidance to personnel at ports of entry within the Field Office, the Field Office leadership, industry, travelers, Federal/state/local agencies, and others on the interpretative techniques and regulatory requirements pertaining to the processing of passenger baggage, cargo, and conveyances.
• Coordinating the implementation of USDA policy and other guidance impacting operations at ports of entry within the Field Office.
• Developing and/or implementing new operational program activities or enhancements for ports of entry within the Field Office.
• Liaising with OFO Headquarters Agriculture Programs and Trade Liaison (APTL) staff on program administration and with Agriculture Operations Managers in geographically adjacent Field Offices and/or Field Offices with similar operational environments on program administration.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Mitigation) position, you will serve in the Planning & Implementation Branch, Mitigation Division supporting the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Direct Technical Assistance (DTA).

Typical assignments include:

• Providing tailored support to communities and tribal nations to enhance their capability and capacity to design holistic, equitable hazard mitigation solutions that advance resilient communities.
• Coordinating with a range of subject matter experts, including community planners, grants specialists, and engineers to both identify local needs and support interdisciplinary delivery of community and tribal technical assistance to meet locally identified needs.
• Assisting subject matter experts and the program lead in the delivery of assistance using project management principles to manage a large case load.
• Analyzing community capability and capacity needs and targeting technical assistance to those areas of need.
• Representing the FEMA Mitigation Division by speaking at public outreach events, attending partner meetings, and coordinating internally and externally on topics of cross-cutting interest.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

This position has promotion potential to the IC-12. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

WHAT IS THE HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICE DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Human Capital Office of Human Resource Operations Labor/Employee Relations and
Negotiations

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• As a top senior expert, serves as personal advisor to and/or representative of top-level management in the most sensitive/controversial discussions and negotiations with representatives of the NTEU (National Treasury Employees Union). Receives and acts on labor organization requests for bargaining unit contract negotiations. Conducts Impact and Implementation (I & I) analysis and bargaining as appropriate. Develops strategies to incorporate Service-wide policies in negotiations with impacted NTEU chapters. Reviews existing local program guidance/management issues and develops long/short range plans for negotiations with NTEU chapters and works with management to integrate strategies developed with the local management agenda.
• Serves as the authoritative resource in the field to top-level management for all phases of the employee and labor relations programs. Provides expert employee and labor relations interpretations and decisions to senior HR supervisors and managers to resolve disputes and interpret facts, events, and/or identifying aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to cases. Explains ambiguous rules and procedures and helps support customers by understanding their rights and obligations; maintains and encourages objectivity in situations that may be charged with emotion and involve assumptions; resolves disputed facts, including those which require expert level determinations for which previous studies and established techniques are frequently inadequate. Advises management about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques to respond to a full range of conduct and performance issues. Advises management officials and supervisors on the performance management program, giving specific directions as needed on procedural and complex procedural and regulatory requirements for annual and other appraisals; explains requirements for developing, modifying, and issuing performance plans; preparing performance improvement plans; and initiating performance-based actions.
• Utilizes legal research methods, information gathering techniques, and analytical skills sufficient to locate, interpret, and analyze for applicability and appropriateness, precedent and substantive decisions, and/or legal opinions that various courts and administrative bodies have rendered. Maintains expert knowledge of employee and labor relations practices and policies through extensive review of FLRA (Federal Labor Relations Authority), FSIP (Federal Service Impasses Panel), OPM (Office of Personnel Management), OGC (Office of General Counsel), and MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board) issuances and decisions, the contract, case law, policies, and precedents. Develops and issues Service-wide program guidance relative to changes in case law, policy, and strategy.
• Receives, researches, analyzes, and coordinates allegations of Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) and resolves when possible. Receives and reviews requests for petitions from labor organizations. Independently conducts and/or serves as project leader of a team in the study of major and highly-complex/controversial employee and labor relations' issues including grievances, misconduct, poor performance, unfair labor practice charges, MSPB appeals, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO ) complaints, Office of Special Counsel (OSC) cases, settlement agreements, adverse actions, information sharing, contract interpretation, training, and preparation and conduct of contract bargaining. Develops and recommends improvements in policy, negotiated contracts, and negotiating techniques. Analyzes top management plans and initiatives to identify issues that affect Service-wide policies and/or are precedent-setting in nature. Prepares proposed changes in program policies for agency consideration.
• Participates in high-level technical discussions with representatives from HCO, Workforce Relations Division, Embedded Human Resources, GLS (General Legal Services), Treasury, and/or other agencies concerning significant program issues, development of regulations, and the application of precedent/unique approaches and strategies to extremely difficult problems and situations. Acts as a technical advisor for the IRS at formal and informal proceedings, developing the IRS's position and, when necessary, represents the IRS along with legal staff before administrative adjudicative bodies.

• You will enter data into security forces database (e.g., issuance to assure eligibility, entry to the designated area are identified).
• You will verify personal identification against authorization documents, issue badges passe's, and other forms to authorize access.
• You will prepare documents (e.g. detailed reports, forms, and citations) to record all law enforcement incidents.

• You will provide financial guidance, strategies, and execution across all Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and various testing efforts.
• You will perform continual budget analysis and engages with appropriate contacts to ensure accurate information while meeting deadlines for rapid turn-around responses.
• You will work with the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP) and Capital Investment Program (CIP) program managers on funding execution and acquisition requirements.
• You will provide extensive analytical support to the management in developing recommendations and making decisions on a broad variety of management and resource issues effecting the Threat Target Systems divisions and Integrated Product Teams.