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General Facility Manager
Agricultural Research Service · Posted 7 days ago
Hybrid Athens, GA $133K – $173K Apply by Sep 21, 2026 Equipment Facilities, And Services ENTJESFJESTJISTJ OperationsTrades
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This position is in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Field Organization, Southeast Area, United States National Poultry Research Center (USNPRC), Athens, Georgia. In this position, you will be an integral member of the Location Support Office, directing and managing all biosafety and biocontainment facilities engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, as well as buildings and grounds activities and functions.
What You'll Do
- →Serve as a subject matter expert and technical authority on high and maximum biosafety, biocontainment, and biosecurity containment and operational issues.
- →Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements governing both program activities and biosafety and biocontainment programs within existing facilities and their operations.
- →Develop and maintain high and maximum containment operational procedures for research and animal laboratories and facilities and develop guidance, policies, and protocols for the USNPRC Biorisk Management Program.
- →Plan and execute long-range programs and projects that apply new operational and maintenance standards to Biosafety Level-3 facilities.
- →Manage the annual facilities Repair and Maintenance (R and M) Plan for the USNPRC facilities.
- →Serve as a Contracting Officer's Representative on contracts relating to operational management of medium to high containment facilities at USNPRC.
- →Oversee Project Management and Architect/Engineering design services task orders including plan/submittal reviews, payment evaluations, recommendations to the contracting officer, and contractor evaluations.
- →Develop new theories/concepts in tracking, implementing and enhancing maintenance tasks and duties to improve biocontainment, reduce maintenance costs, and accelerate organizational change to prevent human error in biocontainment facilities.
Personality Fit
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