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Maintenance Mechanic Helper
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 118 days ago
About the Role
The Maintenance Mechanic Helper serves as a laborer and trades helper in the Facilities Management Service (FMS) at the Stratton VA Medical Center. The work involves a wide variety of tasks surrounding buildings and grounds, as well as various trade shops within FMS.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Perform duties in the facility grounds department include mowing and watering of lawns, trimming and planting bushes, flowers, shrubs and trees.
- →Perform various landscaping duties, sweeping sidewalks and providing labor for snow removal activities after hours, nights, and weekends.
- →Provide support for general day-to-day maintenance of gardening and landscaping machinery.
- →Pick up and empties waste and recycle receptacles.
- →Clean vents, screens, trash cans, glass doors and equipment on medical center campus.
- →Operate all lawn and ground equipment, including power mowers and snow blowers.
- →Hand (brush) painting as a general maintenance practice on building ground equipment.
- →Perform minor mechanical work and adjustments on all lawn and grounds equipment including greasing wheels, changing mower blades, and belts on machinery.
- →Move furniture and equipment in and around facility campus.
- →Transport and deliver supplies and other items to and from buildings on and inside the medical center campus.
- →Assist higher grade workers with installation of wall partitions including sheetrock and wall repairs, hanging artwork in offices such as pictures, plaques, and decorative items.
- →Change ceiling tiles, repair flooring systems such as vinyl floor tiles, carpet tiles, and sub floor systems.
- →Assist was masonry duties by helping higher grade workers coordinate and mobilize tools and materials for masonry jobs including brick work, block, stone, and concrete.
- →Assist locksmith with keying and repairing locksets and installation of door closers, door repairs and hinges.
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: d907dc83-4316-4782-9526-d835f4c63bc4
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