Construction Control Representative

Construction Control Representative

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Louisville, Kentucky

Salary Range: $74678 - $97087 Per Year

Job Summary: The Construction Control Representative serves as a vital member of the Engineering Service at the VA Medical Center and all associated sites of care or services and has support/quality responsibilities for the design, construction, and activation program.

Major Duties:

• The Construction Control Representative (CCR) serves as a vital member of the Engineering Service at the VA Medical Center and all associated sites of care or services and has support/quality responsibilities for the design, construction, and activation program. The CCR will accomplish various technical and construction management functions related to monitoring and control of construction operations, such as construction planning, space management, operation/shutdown of building utility systems, construction safety, and standardizing specifications. Duties are as listed but are not limited to: Review construction documents across the entire construction program, including drawings, specifications, and cost estimates to determine communication discrepancies, functional construction, code adherence, construction activity sequencing, value engineering, and potential conflicts with other planned or ongoing facility construction activities. Investigate and provide plans/assessments for site conditions, existing building conditions, utility conditions, building system operations, corrective/preventative maintenance history, and researching facility record documents/as-builts to ensure accuracy of construction documents and reduce risk of changes to construction contracts. Develops, maintains, and continually improves pre-bid and pre-construction agendas to enforce facility standards/constraints. Attend and participate in the pre-bid and pre-construction meetings. Review and provide constructive input to pre-bid/pre-proposal questions/request for information to ensure all prospective offerors have a level playing field and nuisances/ambiguities identified in construction documents have resolutions that promote value engineered options and reduce risk of potential conflicts. Develops, maintains, and continually improves site specific master specifications, adapts specifications to improving technologies, and suggests deviations from the VA's master specifications to those creating construction documents for continuity across all construction projects. Monitor design and construction schedules and milestones (design submission, bidding milestones, construction inspections, phasing, acceptance of space, activations, etc.). Perform quality checks and upload all required documents to the appropriate system/database for the contracting office to procure. Coordinate with Contracting Officer's Representative regarding construction phasing requirements, construction schedule requirements, and construction period of performances for construction contracts to assure minimal disruptions to normal medical center operations. Identify and ensure unacceptable construction means and methods are identified on construction documents. Consider construction activities and their impact to normal medical center operations and ensures acceptable limitations are identified on construction documents. Work with Project Manager/COR to establish a Quality Assurance Plan, to establish routine, understood criteria for acceptance and activation of projects. Develop, maintain, and continually improve scheduling requirements to maintain normal medical center operations, to execute funding operations plans, and inform prospective bidders of schedule expectations. All other duties as assigned Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 0800-1630 Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Construction Control Representative/PD40417F and PD404170 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/04/2026. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements (for positions at GS-4 and above): Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Engineering aid or technician or surveying technician performing work directly related to construction. Construction inspector or construction representative responsible for interpreting plans and specifications, inspecting materials and workmanship, and insuring adherence to safety requirements. Supervisor of crafts persons, equipment operators, or mechanics engaged in construction work, provided that the experience involved responsibility for interpreting plans and specifications and inspecting workmanship for adherence to such plans and specifications. GS-11 Grade Level Specialized Experience: One year specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-10 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: performs construction coordination, documentation, and inspection duties for the Medical Center's design and construction program; acting as alternate Contracting Office Representative (COR) working under assigned Project Managers/General Engineers; provides oversight and inspection of construction operations; confers with other employees on problems of control, inspection, administration, and safety and makes decisions for dealing with the particular problems. There is no educational substitution for the GS-11 level. Reference: For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/. Physical Requirements: Some physical exertion, such as standing, walking/climbing/crawling over different terrains, reoccurring stretching, bending, crouching, climbing, etc. Incumbent may have to lift moderately heavy items, such as testing or measuring equipment. Incumbent must complete regular and unplanned visits to construction sites with unique hazards and conditions. Incumbent is required to use different personal protective equipment, such as safety shoes, safety glasses, safety vests, etc. Work Environment: Work involves regular and reoccurring exposure to risks and discomforts that accompany construction sites, such as dust, odors, fumes, heat, noise, vibrations, slippery surfaces, electrical hazards, exposed machinery and pinch points, vehicular traffic, hot/cold weather, rain, snow, ice, uneven surfaces, etc. The incumbent must be knowledgeable of construction site hazards, remain alert to constantly changing working conditions, and wear personal protective equipment.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12940826. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 05/04/2026. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-04