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Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic Supervisor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 days ago
On-site Chillicothe, OH $40.8 – $47.7/hr Apply by Aug 17, 2026 Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic ESTPISTP OperationsTradesTransportation
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The position is located within the Fleet/Grounds Department, Facilities Management Service (FMS), at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center in Chillicothe, OH, and works under the direct supervision of the Maintenance & Operations Supervisor.
What You'll Do
- →MAJOR DUTIES: Exercises responsibility for the operation and administrative management of the combined Fleet/Grounds Unit.
- →Performs duties necessary to provide transportation, grounds maintenance, automotive and equipment maintenance, and gardening requirements.
- →Schedules maintenance and repairs on GSA and station-owned vehicles, grounds maintenance equipment, and emergency generators.
- →Vehicles and equipment include, but is not limited to, passenger cars, fire trucks, aerial truck, dump truck, passenger vans, bus, trash truck, Cushman vehicles, pickup trucks, electric vehicles, tractors, end loader, backhoe, skid steer loaders, excavators, forklifts, bombardiers, mowers, off-road vehicles and diesel-powered generators.
- →Equipment must be maintained in an operable state of repair to provide transportation, fire protection, emergency electrical power for the station, grounds maintenance, snow removal, and trash collection.
- →Schedules and maintains necessary transportation requirements for over 300,000 miles driven annually.
- →Maintains vehicles in a safe and dependable condition.
- →Schedules and coordinates the usage of vehicles and personnel to assure total utilization of available resources to promote economical and quality transportation.
- →Responsible for ensuring all vehicle operators have completed the requirements necessary to operate a government vehicle.
- →Maintains required data on workload and expenditures for fleet utilizations programs and fleet reports for fuel consumption and vehicle acquisition.
- →Schedules and maintains necessary grounds maintenance requirements.
- →Work consists of, but not limited to, trimming of weeds, cutting, and trimming approximately 200 acres of lawn, reseeding, planting grass, trimming around buildings, trees, and signs, and picking up litter, limbs, leaves, and debris.
- →Coordinates all tree maintenance, trimming, and removal.
- →Maintains roads and parking lots and performs repairs, patching, cleaning, and contracts for new asphalt and asphalt maintenance.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Pre-employment physical required Subject to background/security investigation 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) 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
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