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Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Leader
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
On-site West Palm Beach, FL $38.8 – $45.2/hr Apply by Jun 22, 2026 Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic ESTPISTP Trades
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West Palm Beach VA Medical Center is looking for an Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Work Leader, assigned to Facilities Management Service. Directing duties related to installs, repairs, modifies and relocates equipment on special purpose air conditioning and refrigeration units and systems that are frequently modified to provide specific and critical climatic conditions throughout the medical center.
What You'll Do
- →Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Lead duties include directing work teams consisting up to 3 Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic WG-10, and 2 Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic WG-8.
- →The employee installs, recognizes the cause of faulty equipment and makes repairs, modifies and relocates equipment on special purpose air conditioning and refrigeration units and systems that are frequently modified to provide specific and critical climactic conditions in throughout the Medical Center.
- →Additional Duties include but not limited to: Maintains, installs and repairs air conditioning and refrigeration systems to provide specific and critical climactic conditions throughout the Medical Center.
- →Modifies and balances various elements of systems that are designed to meet a wide variety of extreme and critical conditions.
- →Reviews plans or specifications, determines the size, shape, and location of equipment and installs or plans the installation to meet the conditions of the experiment or test.
- →Modifies, alters, or substitutes components and elements of the system in order to meet specific pressure-temperature characteristics.
- →Works with engineering personnel while planning and modifying a system to meet specific conditions, and accomplishes repairs and modifications to meet conditions required.
- →Assignments are made by the Utility System Foreman with minimum accompanying instructions concerning work methods or work materials to be used.
- →Works with engineering personnel while planning and modifying systems to meet specific conditions.
- →Accomplishes repairs and modifications to meet conditions determined necessary.
- →Supervisor is available on difficult, unique or administrative problems.
- →Otherwise, employee completes work without undue interruption.
- →Must have a broad knowledge of the principles and theories of air conditioning (refrigeration cycles, heat transfer laws, refrigerant tables) to calculate air flow and pressure and temperature characteristics for different systems.
- →Must have a knowledge of the construction characteristics of a variety of types and models of systems that are designed to reach and maintain critical and extreme conditions under a variety of circumstances.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 44228493-618a-4bbe-b788-a473b0644130
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