Facilities Operations Specialist

Job ID: 2510860

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-10-16

Category: Facilities

Subcategory: Facilities

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is seeking a Facilities Operations Specialist / Project Manager to support our mission in Chantilly, Virginia. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

SAIC provides full-service facility management support to a large Federal Government organization. We conduct end-to-end project management and facility engineering support for locations around the world. In this role, you will act as an interface between the on-site government facilities management organization, design and construction contractors, Site Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support contractor, local Government entities, and all other customers and stakeholders on matters related to facility Operation and Maintenance (O&M) issues and concerns.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Facilities Operations

• Act as the liaison coordinating with Government representatives at multiple levels.
• Develop plans and conduct day-to-day oversight and document assessment of the O&M contractor's work. Make Award Fee recommendations.
• Provide technical support for all O&M activities, range of duties include planning and programming, requirements development, through project execution (including commissioning), and disposal.
• Assist and advise customer leadership by developing and maintaining a plan, with cost estimates, to effectively recapitalize, modify, and optimize facilities in a comprehensive and strategic manner.
• Ensure that significant facilities issues are elevated, documented, addressed, and advocated for.
• Identify policy, processes, and standards and recommend changes and improvements to support effective facilities management planning and implementation.
• Identify and document facilities benchmarks to baseline the current performance in a common and consistent fashion.
• Advise on, recommend, and author policy documents with emphasis on standardizing facility management processes, documents, and tools.
• Develop engineering technical white papers as required.
• Assist in the evaluation of system related anomalies and perform root cause analysis.
• Monitor and track deferred maintenance, daily operating status, outages; and maintenance activities.

Project Management

• Develop project's scope and estimates for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contractor accomplishment.
  Work with the executing agent to ensure that customer requirements are accomplished on time, to the specified quality, and within budget.
• Coordinate resource allocation and maintain document control.
• Develop and deliver project/contract documentation, including but not limited to Statements of Work, cost and schedule estimates, and periodic reports.
• Input and maintain project management data in the client's system of record.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.
• 10+ years of experience in facility management with knowledge of facility O&M activities and procedures.
• 5+ years of experience in project management.
• Experience with campus-wide water, HVAC, and electrical distribution systems.
• Understanding of critical infrastructure and ability to assess facility and system reliability.
• Ability to estimate and produce a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimates for facility project planning and programming purposes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/taskings and competing resources.
• Demonstrated project management skills associated with managing performance, budget, schedules, and adhering to control gates.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to team with industry partners.

Desired Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in an engineering or architectural field.
• Experience with the customer.
• CFM, PMP or equivalent facilities management and/or project management certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or a similar scheduling tool and experience analyzing schedules.
• Experience with AutoCAD.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local building and safety codes.