Base facilities or land management agency

What is a base facilities or land management agency?

Base facilities management agencies include:

The Department of Defense, Defense Industrial Base Facility
The Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facilities Base

Land management agencies include:

The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service
The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Reclamation.

Eligibility

Base facilities management agencies

If you're a current or former term or temporary employee of a Defense Industrial Base Facility or the Major Range and Test Facilities Base, you may be eligible to apply for:

A permanent, merit promotion job, at any agency, when the agency is accepting applications from individuals outside its own workforce.
A permanent, merit promotion job, at a Department of Defense, Defense Industrial Base Facility or Major Range and Test Facilities base or any other Department of Defense component, if these facilities are accepting applications from individuals within their own workforce.

To be eligible you must meet all of the following conditions:

You're a current or former employee of a Defense Industrial Base Facility or the Major Range and Test Facilities Base.
Your job is or was a time-limited appointment in the competitive service (term or temporary appointment).
You were originally hired under open, competitive examination under Subchapter I of Chapter 33 of such title to the time-limited appointment.

Land management agencies

If you're a current or former land management employee, who worked in a term or temporary job, you may be eligible to apply to merit promotion jobs at any federal agency.

To apply to a merit promotion job, you must apply within two years of your last term or temporary job and meet all of the following conditions:

You worked for a land management agency. Refer to the list of land management agencies above.
Your job was a term or temporary job in the competitive service.
You worked for a land management agency for more than 24 months—it doesn't have to be continuous, as long as there's no break of two or more years.
You received acceptable performance ratings throughout your term or temporary employment.
You did not leave your job due to misconduct or performance.

How do I know a job is open to the base facilities or land management workforce?

In the job announcement look for the This job is open to section. Look for the Land and base management icon:

You can also select the Land & base management filter in search. Read the job announcement to see if the job is open to base facilities management employees.

For base facilities management, you may also apply to jobs open only to the base facilities management agencies or a Department of Defense agency or office if they're hiring internally. Look for the Internal to an agency icon:

Documents you may need:

SF-50, notification of personnel action
Performance rating(s) or equivalent