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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
About the Role
This position is located at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (GCVHCS), Engineering Service, Biloxi, MS. The primary function of this position includes journeyman plumbing including carpentry, electric, painting, and general maintenance skills. Mechanics service and repair building and related fixtures on an emergency type basis, requiring the use of trade practices associated with occupations in the mechanical, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, and associated trades.
What You'll Do
- →This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT until September 30,2026.
- →Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available.
- →Duties Include: Constructs, alters, repairs, and modifies items made of metal, wood, and wood substitutes.
- →Assembles/disassembles, installs, repairs and modifies steel stud framing, wood and wood structures for structural soundness to include creating or working from complex drawings as a layout of the entire floor plan, ensuring assembly is consistent with building codes, safety standards, local standards, and manufacturing standards.
- →Mixes and finishes plaster and applies to walls and ceilings, taking into consideration type of lathing, required thickness, weather conditions, etc.
- →Selects proper tools and materials for work to be accomplished.
- →Patches and repairs damaged plaster or stucco surfaces and repairs and finishes gypsum walls by applying joint compound and tape to cracks and joints.
- →Removes and installs flooring, ceramic tile, structural and glazed tiles for walls, floors and ceilings in medical offices and various locations each requiring special consideration due to type of activity, location and, infectious control requirements.
- →Maintains, repairs, alters and renovates the interior and exterior structures built from concrete, block, ceramic tiles by preparing and spreading mortar or adhesive, cutting, shaping, and laying blocks and tiles, and finishing joints.
- →Locate leaks, determines cause and extent of damages to the facility, and determines the type of work to be conducted and proper techniques and methods.
- →Reads, interprets, plans, lays out and performs work accordingly to building plans, blueprints, drawings, as-builts, oral and written instructions and from maintenance complaints or requests.
- →Applies materials or paint using acceptable trade methods such as brushes, rollers, spray guns, graining devices and devices that give special effects.
- →Examines and assesses state of aged or damaged structures and equipment.
- →Operates tools such as a table saw, circular saw, drill press, jack hammer, hand tools, measuring devices, and other equipment that are required by carpenters.
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.
- ✓You will be required to complete a pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Must be able to independently operate a Government Vehicle.
- ✓Must provide clean driving record report from the DMV during the pre-employment process.
- ✓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: 2a9e69ff-f5f2-41d3-b72d-c57133ccc80f
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