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Summary Join our team of dedicated employees who preserve and maintain the historic buildings, monuments, art and inspirational gardens on the Capitol campus. The Director, Project Controls Division advises the Chief Engineer on matters relating to the planning, design and construction of new and historic buildings under the stewardship of AOC. The position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Office of the Chief Engineer, Project Controls Division. Responsibilities At the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), our employees are passionate about AOC’s mission to serve Congress and the Supreme Court, preserve America’s Capitol and inspire memorable experiences. AOC is a legislative branch agency, the recognized authority for the preservation, maintenance and construction of the world’s most iconic treasures and buildings on Capitol Hill. As a global destination for thousands of visitors every day, Capitol Hill intersects history, architecture and art with the birthplace of our nation’s laws. We have a rare opportunity for an exceptional executive leader with a strategic and tactical focus to serve as our Director of Project Controls Division. As an integral member of the Office of the Chief Engineer, the executive manages oversight of estimating, constructability, scheduling, project management information systems, facility documentation and safety. The Director balances the needs of a wide range of stakeholders including congressional leadership, oversight and appropriation committees, Members of Congress, congressional staff, congressional constituents and AOC jurisdiction leadership. In this capacity, the Director of Project Controls will perform major responsibilities such as the following: Manages a team that leads internal controls including consistent application of policies and procedures to support compliance and appropriate construction process efficiency. Provides oversight to develop and implement standardized project controls to manage budgets, scheduling, and quality for planning, design, and construction projects and programs. Establishes controls and operating policies that identify, monitor, and mitigate risk factors that could impact the success of a project. Ensures accountability and transparency in financial planning, decision-making, and reporting, and ensures sound investment of government financial resources and integrity of the federal contracting process. Manages the oversight of project planning and design execution responsibility for construction, commissioning, and close-out to ensure integration and coordination within established time frames. Maintains program goals and objectives, consistent with commitments and policies, as well as measurable performance criteria. Support and oversees a team dedicated to increased project safety and occupational health, this includes safety inspections, operational safety reviews, and overall management of the internal safety culture and program. Ensures contractor services comply with quantitative and qualitative requirements, and specifications. Develops methodology to reduce project costs and schedules. Oversees planning, design, and construction execution progress reports to respond to third party inquiries. Implements industry best practices for facility documentation and construction/renovation cost estimating to support project scoping and reduce budget variances. Conducts periodic program review and analysis briefings to compare progress with objectives and established milestones. Identifies needed changes during any project phase and either initiates or approves changes recommended by professional and technical staff to maintain approved schedules, cost and quality. Serves as an authoritative source for decisions and guidance, relating to compromises and changes in project objectives. Anticipates, advises, and utilizes appropriate follow up to ensure proper proactive and reactive actions to Inspector General inquiries, investigations, and audits. Ensures controls address cost or budget considerations, scopes changes, performance, and other risk levels. Provides guidance and consultation to project managers and their supervisors on implementing measures for continuous improvement for the entire lifecycle of project management. Works across organization for the consistent application methods for project estimating, procurement, contract management, reporting, metrics, and other project-related processes. Utilizes software and electronic controls to increase compliance, collect data for analysis and supports goals to increase internal efficiencies and construction throughput. This position serves at the pleasure of the Architect of the Capitol. Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be able to pass a drug test. You must provide narratives to the ECQs. This position serves at the pleasure of the Architect of the Capitol. Filing of a Financial Disclosure Report. 2. Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position. 3. Successful completion of pre-employment and applicable random drug testing required. 4. Meets qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement. To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet one of the categories below: A citizen of the United States; A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States. Qualifications You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. For the Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications, you are required to submit a narrative response addressing your specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that demonstrate your possession of the qualifications. For more information about the Executive Core Qualifications, please visit this site: http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2010.pdf Must meet the Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual for all all-professional Engineering positions, GS-0800 or Architecture Series 0808. Candidates’ possession of a bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or architecture from an accredited college or university is preferred. Applicants must clearly show possession and demonstrated leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent for each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) and Professional Technical Qualification (PTQ). Failure to address and meet any of the ECQs and PTQs via the vacancy questionnaire, will eliminate you from further consideration. Review the ECQ competencies guidance and sample resumes in OPM’s Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification. Applicants currently serving in a Senior-Rated (SR) appointment (other than a temporary promotion), career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and have been certified by the Office of Personnel Management do not need to address the ECQs and must address each PTQ. Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ's): ECQ 1 – Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 – Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 – Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems and calculating risks. ECQ 4 – Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 – Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments or international organizations to achieve common goals. Professional Technical Qualifications: PTQ 1 – Describe your demonstrated experience as a member of a senior leadership team, leading and directing a broad range of operational programs managing complex design and construction organization involving multimillion and multi-year projects in a complex of monumental buildings or similar complex of building facilities. PTQ 2 - Demonstrated experience developing, leading, and implementing process improvement and innovative approaches designed to enhance customer service and program integrity while working collaboratively across organizational lines. PTQ 3 - Demonstrated experience in planning, directing, implementing, and evaluating complex planning, design and construction quality assurance and project controls (audit/compliance) activities. Education An engineer or an architect with an active license and at least 5 years of relevant experience is highly desirable. Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual for General Engineering: General Engineering, 0801 Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Education must be from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Therefore, provide only the degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Special Instructions for Foreign Education: You must show a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs have evaluated the education credentials and 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. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course-by-course listing if selected. For further information, click here. Additional Information Welcome Veterans. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans' preference rights in the legislative branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separated under honorable conditions, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15, if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documentation of disability, if applicable. For more information, please visit http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetguide.asp#6. If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System. If you are exempt from registration under Selective Service Law, you must provide appropriate proof of exemption. Please visit the Selective Service System website for more information. DRUG TESTING: The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOC’s suitability assessment, a candidate tentatively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule, provide and cover the cost for the drug test. The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol is an E-VERIFY Participant. E-VERIFY is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment authorization in the United States. If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-VERIFY" electronic system. For more information on E-Verify, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm The Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information and/or disability. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Moving expenses are not authorized. Relocation expenses are not authorized. All application materials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol.