Interior Designer

You will serve as an Interior Designer in the Public Buildings Service (PBS), Office of Planning and Design Quality, providing technical design advice to other GSA personnel in response to customer's need for design and delivery of workspace that is a cost-effective solution for the client agency's challenges.

Location of position: Public Buildings Service, 1800 F Street, Washington, DC

We are currently filling one vacancy, but additional vacancies may be filled as neeed.

Qualifications:

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held  each job (from month/year to month/year)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time).    

If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.

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The GS-12 salary range starts at $87,198 per year. If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected.  

To qualify, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or higher in the Federal service. 

Specialized experience is assisting in preparing hardline drawings for required design intent documents, e.g., demolition/renovation plans, furniture plans, etc.; surveying an agency's space, equipment, workflow, communication and organizational requirements; developing an agency's space and related requirements; specifying furniture and related furnishings; reading and interpreting basic architectural drawings; coordinating and designing total interior finish schemes and materials. OR

Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- interior design or other field that included or was supplemented by at least 30 semester hours in interior design, interior architecture, or interior environmental design; OR passage of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) examination.

College transcripts: If you are using some or all of your college education to meet qualification requirements for this position, you must submit a photocopy of your college transcript(s). If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. For education completed outside the United States, also submit a valid foreign credential evaluation that substantiates possession of the required education.

• Site visits will be required both to federally owned and leased spaces. Some of these will be active construction sites requiring full personal protection and safety gear. Candidate must be able to attend these site visits in person and navigate through the entire site.
• Due to the portfolio of the National Capitol Region successful candidate must have experience managing multiple large scale projects of over 500,000 square feet

Responsibilities:

• Monitors project results and program success in relation to milestones met, budget compliance, and overall customer and project/program objectives, including quality assurance and expected outcomes.
• Independently performs duties in accordance with industry standards, principles, theories, concepts, methods and techniques for interior design. 
• Executes contract administration and management roles, obtaining customer input on deficiencies and other contractual issues as they arise. Oversees contract activities and resources to proactively identify, mitigate and manage risk.
• Makes recommendations to the contracting officer regarding changes in scope or performance standards to improve service delivery, meet customers' needs, contract termination and/or to respond to changing work needs.
• Personally or through other means, performs final inspections of work required, with the authority to approve or reject the product in whole or in part.
• Reviews inspection reports submitted by GSA and/or contractor personnel (e.g., professional engineers, lessors, GSA customer service representatives, FAS quality assurance employees, etc.) to assure that completed projects comply with established specifications (as modified during project/construction phases) and safety codes and that the quality of work has been certified as meeting GSA standards.
• Analyzes and monitors impact on building interior space design and overall building aesthetics to determine facility capability in meeting customer needs. Reviews and considers lifecycle condition analysis and similar assessments and from those findings, integrates and quantifies requirements into a scope of work for the project.
• Leads the process of identifying tasks and potential problems and determining the parameters of a viable solution, and task completion in relation to space programming/interior design requirements and objectives.
• Develops customized programming, technical specifications, budgets, space planning as well as the goals and objectives of the project. Designs layouts to meet customer program requirements developed from initial programming effort while accounting for fire safety code requirements and within general design principles.
• Researches, prepares and/or approves (if contracted out) technical specifications such as computer rooms, special electrical, heating ventilation and air conditioning, physical security requirements, special construction such as courtrooms, cells, vaults and cafeterias, for use by realty employees for inclusion in the Solicitation for Offers.
• Utilizes AutoCad computer drafting system to generate design documents.

*This is not a 100% telework position**