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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 98 days ago
On-site Jamaica Plain, MA $35.4 – $41.3/hr Apply by Sep 30, 2026 Maintenance Mechanic ESTPISTP HealthcareTrades
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This Maintenance Mechanic position is located in the Facilities Management department at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain Campus.
What You'll Do
- →Performs routine work orders.
- →Performs a variety of preventive maintenance tasks such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other related trades required in maintenance and repair of buildings, structures, fixtures, and related property.
- →Makes visual and operational inspections of a variety of wood, brick, metal and masonry buildings to detect deficiencies and determine repair needs.
- →Determines materials needed, and makes repairs or replaces items found defective.
- →Performs inspections to include checking the condition of foundations, walls, flooring, roofs, doors, windows, plumbing, electrical systems, building approaches and obvious safety and fire hazards.
- →Performs carpentry work involving maintenance and repair of a variety of wood products.
- →Selects lumber, materials, supplies and tools.
- →Measures and cuts materials to required lengths and dimensions.
- →Repairs or replaces flooring, sheet rock, plywood, siding, sheathing, roofing doors, jambs and window frames, interior and exterior trim.
- →Fabricates and installs frames or casings for windows and doors.
- →Installs doors and door hardware, repairs roofs by shingling or installing roll roofing.
- →Repairs floors by replacing flooring.
- →Replaces floor tile and vinyl sheet flooring.
- →Uses a variety of hand and power tools to accomplish work.
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 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: 113b7837-eea2-471a-a502-ba960fb137dc
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