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Administrative Manager (Direct Hire)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MDFull-time$169–197K/yrPosted today

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At a glance

Compensation
$169–197K/yr
Location
Greenbelt, MD
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Facilities Management Division Chief provides strategic direction, leadership, and operational oversight for real property, infrastructure, and facility support operations across Goddard’s portfolio. The role directs building operations, maintenance, capital improvements, space allocation, energy management, and contract administration, while ensuring safe, secure, efficient, and sustainable work environments. It also leads a multidisciplinary team and oversees budgets and facilities-related contracts.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Facility Operations ManagementFacilities EngineeringCapital Improvement ProjectsBudget Management

Qualifications

GS-14 Equivalent Experience

Full job description

Summary

The Facilities Management Division Chief is responsible for providing strategic direction, leadership, and operational oversight for all real property, infrastructure, and facility support operations across Goddard's portfolio. The incumbent directs comprehensive programs including building operations, maintenance and repairs, capital improvements, space allocation, energy management, and contract administration to ensure safe, secure, efficient, and sustainable physical working environments.

Duties

  • Formulates long-range strategic plans, capital asset plans, and implements policies for real property management, facility modernization, and infrastructure lifecycle maintenance.
  • Directs the daily operations, preventative maintenance, and emergency repair of physical infrastructure.
  • Oversees the execution of major renovation, alteration, and new construction projects from programming and design through commissioning and occupancy.
  • Ensures all facilities comply with federal, state, and local building codes, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, and fire/life safety standards.
  • Directs sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives, including carbon footprint reduction, renewable energy integration, and waste diversion programs.
  • Leads, mentors, and evaluates a multidisciplinary team composed of facility managers, engineers, skilled trades supervisors, safety specialists, and administrative personnel.
  • Allocates resources, tracks expenditures, and ensures fiscal accountability across all division activities.
  • Provides technical oversight for Contracting Officer's Representatives, develops statements of work, technical evaluation criteria for facilities services, construction contracts, architectural/engineering agreements and ensures contract compliance.

Qualifications

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. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Directing, coordinating, and managing full-lifecycle facility operations, maintenance, and engineering services for a large-scale, multi-facility, or high-complexity campus environment; Leading multi-phase capital improvement and infrastructure renewal projects, including scope development, design review, cost estimating, and project closeout; Developing, defending, and executing complex annual operating and capital budgets. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Super-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of super intelligent (SI) or SI-assisted tools during the application process.

How You Will Be Evaluated

Direct Hire Authority: These positions will be filled through the Office of Personnel Management's Direct Hire Authority. Category rating and veterans' preference will not be considered in evaluating applicants. For more information on Direct Hire Authority, please see: OPM Direct Hire Fact Sheet. Veterans: Under the provisions of Direct Hire Authority, veterans' preference does not apply. However, applicants who are eligible for veterans' preference are encouraged to include that information in their application and submit supporting documentation (i.e. DD-214, or other substantiating documents). For more information please see: Veterans' Preference information on the FedsHireVets website. You will be evaluated for this position based on how well you meet the qualifications and eligibility requirements listed in this vacancy announcement. To determine your qualifications and referral status, we may review your resume and supporting documentation and compare it against your responses to the assessment questionnaire. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or assessment questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration. You will be assessed on the following competencies: Facilities Engineering and Management Facilities Operations and Maintenance Technical Competence Attention to Detail To preview the application questionnaire, click on the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13108279 NASA considers 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. NASA will not ask you to disclose criminal history record information during the application process or before we make a conditional/tentative offer of employment. If you apply for this position and are selected, NASA will conduct a suitability/security background investigation after you accept a tentative job offer. If you feel you are asked to disclose your criminal history before you accept a tentative offer and wish to file a complaint within 30 days, please contact: [email protected]. Other Information

Additional selections may be made for similar positions across NASA within the local commuting area(s) of the location(s) identified in this announcement. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) within NASA. CTAP/ICTAP will be cleared for any additional selection from this announcement. For purposes of Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) selection priority, well-qualified is defined as possessing knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies which clearly exceed the minimum qualification requirements for the position, as determined through SME review of the resume/application. If you have special priority selection rights under ICTAP, you must: Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position. Exceed the minimum qualification requirements for the position. Submit proof that you meet the requirements for ICTAP as indicated in "Required Documents." For additional information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility, click here - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/#ictap. Any applicant that received a Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) from the federal government within the last five years based of the closing date of this announcement, if selected, may be required to repay the full amount prior to establishing a start date. For additional information on the VSIP repayment requirement, click here - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/voluntary-separation-incentive-payments/. Per Executive Order 14343, this position is not part of a bargaining unit. Probationary Period You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,155 open Facilities Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$169–197K/yr
  • Maryland median$126–210K/yr25 salary ranges
  • US median$120–193K/yr1,372 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $183K, is 7% above the Maryland median midpoint ($172K) — in the middle half of Facilities Management salary ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 36 open Facilities Management jobs in Maryland and 2,155 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Facilities Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,578 postings).
Education
276 of the 2,155 open Facilities Management jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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