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Electrician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 16 days ago
About the Role
The position is located in the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veteran Health Administration, and serves as a journeyman electrician of the Electric Shop under the Engineering Service at the VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, Florida and reports to the Electric Shop Supervisor.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Installs, modifies repairs, maintains, trouble-shoots, tests, and loads new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems and associated fixtures, controls and equipment.
- →Works from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, schematics, engineering drawings, hand drawn sketches, electrical manufacturers maintenance and repair manuals.
- →Responds to customer reported issues by tests or trouble-shooting and independently determines an appropriate course of action.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD04799A Physical Requirements: Incumbent makes repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platform, hydraulic lifts, and other hard to reach places.
- →To complete work, incumbent will stand, stoop, bend, kneel, twist, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions for long periods of time.
- →The incumbent must lift and carry tools, equipment and parts weighing up to 40 pounds.
- →May also have to lift or move heavy objects over 200 pounds.
- →Working Conditions: The work is performed inside and outside, including in bad weather.
- →Work may need to be completed in areas that are noisy, dirty, dusty, greasy and bad smelling.
- →Work may require being at a height of over 50 feet or more, and in close quarters such as manholes or attics.
- →They are occasionally exposed to the possibility of injury from falling, electrical shock, burns, rotary devices such as electrical motors, sharp edges on metal equipment or parts and pointed objects.
- →They are frequently exposed to the possibility of cuts and bruises.
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: a12d8900-c166-4e0e-aecc-5a1752ce341a
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