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Electrician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 52 days ago
About the Role
This position, located at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN, maintains and repairs electrical equipment/industrial systems and is assigned a variety of duties involving installation, modification, troubleshooting, and testing of complex electrical systems, circuits, appliances, controls, components, lighting fixtures and fire alarm systems.
What You'll Do
- →The Electrician performs a variety of maintenance and new construction tasks involved in maintaining station buildings, grounds and related structures, fixtures, and utilities for James H Quillen VAMC and its subordinate outlying facilities.
- →This position includes responsibilities for both electrical and electronic and he/she would hold expertise/license/certifications to include skills in managing a variety of electrical current systems 1,5,20,110, 220, 460 and 13,200 volts AC and DC.
- →Duties include but not limited to: The incumbent is responsible to perform a variety of work on various crews and tasks.
- →He/she will perform periodic inspections of existing buildings and electrical systems to ensure patient and staff safety and hospital building code compliance.
- →The incumbent must posses the ability and skills to interpret and apply the national electrical code, local codes and codes established by The Joint Commission to use formulas to calculate common properties.
- →Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 6:45am-3:30pm Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD60225A Physical Requirements: Frequently lifts and carries, unassisted, items weighing up to 40 pounds.
- →Sometimes lifts and carries items weighing more than 50 pounds properly with assistance from other workers or lifting devices.
- →Frequently stands, walks, bends, crouches, reaches and stoops.
- →Climbs and works in high places as well as in underground tunnels.
- →Some electronics work may require the aid of magnifying lenses, eye loops, and microscopes to accomplish repairs on miniature components.
- →Electrical work is sometimes accomplished from ladders, scaffolding, platforms and other hard-to-reach places.
- →Occasionally works in tiring, tight and uncomfortable positions for extended periods.
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: b2307fbb-bb5c-4b2a-9580-b64e88ee3d71
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