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Industrial Equipment Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
On-site Tulsa, OK $30.8 – $35.9/hr Apply by Jul 2, 2026 Industrial Equipment Mechanic ESTPISTP HealthcareTrades
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This position is assigned to Engineering Service within Eastern Oklahoma VA Healthcare System at the Ernest Childers OPC located in Tulsa, Ok. The Industrial Equipment Mechanic performs various installing, repairing, overhauling, aligning, modifying, relocating, and maintaining of various types of automated equipment, and systems that have complex interrelationships among components.
What You'll Do
- →Determines nature and extent of necessary repairs, and makes them by replacing, reworking, or refinishing worn or damaged parts and components; rivets, solders, and spot welds for appearance and strength.
- →Reassembles and installs equipment, performsoperational and functional tests making required adjustments to ensure proper system operations.
- →Installs, replaces, adjusts and sets various regulating or safety devices such as meters, gauges, and governors.
- →Lays out, installs, aligns, repairs, overhauls, and maintains various types of non production industrial type machinery, equipment, and systems.
- →Disassembles and repairs general industrial type machinery, equipment, and systems, such as conveyor systems, air compressors, laundry equipment, etc.
- →Knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic operating characteristics of varied non-production industrial machinery, equipment, and system; familiarity with varied metals required to accomplish maintenance and repair assignments; operating characteristics, installation and repair procedures, methods, and trade practices.
- →Ability to weld material parts and structures that vary in size, shape, and thickness, requiring multiple welding passes or dissimilar metals such as copper to steel.
- →Ability to interpret and apply technical manual, shop directives, blueprints, and other document requirements in determining critical dimensions or key reference points.
- →Work assignments are made through work orders, trouble or service calls or maintenance schedules accompanied by rough sketches, engineering drawings or specifications, blueprints, other technical information or regulatory codes.
- →Works under general supervision of General Maintenance Foreman who makes oral or written assignments with general or specific instructions for unusual situations and/or procedural changes in established practices; incumbent allowed discretion to prioritize assignments to efficiently and effectively accomplish work.
- →Skill in use of complicated shop tools, equipment, measuring instruments and hand measuring devices such as hand power crimping, burring, turning or beading machines, soldering or welding equipment, protractors, calipers, and screw pitch gauges.
- →Ability to install and repair complex industrial machinery, equipment and systems such as engraving machines, reducing valves, pneumatic tube systems, laundry, and medical and dietetic equipment.
- →Skill in use and application of standard formulas, shop mathematics, trade theories and practices in calculating needed materials and problem solving; use of various test equipment and measuring tools, such as alignment scopes, micrometers, precision levels, transits, bearing bridge gauges, flow meters, and vibration analyzers.
- →Skill in setting up and operating machine tools like small lathes, milling machines, drill presses, and precision grinders to manufacture component parts or machine existing bushings, bearings, seals, couplings, and pistons; skill in use of machine tools for on-site milling, grinding, boring, facing, and drilling to accomplish repairs.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job 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 Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Pre-employment physical required 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 or 2-year trial 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 or trial 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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