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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
The Maintenance Mechanic independently performs maintenance used at the journeyman level of several occupations. The job performs a combination of maintenance, repair, modification, equipment operation and equipment inspection/certification involving diverse skills.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but not limited to: Repairing, constructing, remodeling, and maintaining a variety of wooden and wood substitute structures.
- →Installs studs, sills, plates, braces, joists, floors, sub-floors, ceramic tile, vinyl sheet goods, paneling (including sheetrock, plywood, and veneers), siding, sheathing, insulating material, door and window frames, as well as interior and exterior trim.
- →Fabricates and installs items that require a precise and accurate fit including window and door frames as well as shelves, counter tops (including laminate and solid surface material), cabinets, bookcases, etc.
- →Designs, plans and executes the installation and modification of a variety of diverse modular furniture systems.
- →Interpret and modification of drawings, blueprints, and specifications.
- →Determine the layout, work sequences, and types of materials required.
- →Plumbing: Performs a variety of plumbing installation and maintenance work which involves removing, cleaning, replacing, packing, and sealing defective parts of utility, supply, and disposal systems such as dirty traps, sections of broken pipe and tile, clogged pipes and fixtures, and leaky faucets and drains.
- →Installs, repairs and maintains equipment and fixtures to existing plumbing systems such as pressure reducing valves, hot water heaters and/or storage tanks, circulating pumps, drinking fountains, water closets and urinals.
- →Pipefitting: Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches in planning and laying out the routing, placement, pitch, elevation, pressure reduction, expansion, and operations of various piping system and equipment.
- →Installs, modifies, and repairs system by setting up routes; placing and cutting openings; placing hangers for proper pitch and elevation; determining need for and installing such things as risers, flexible branches, expansion joints, pumps, gauges, and pressure regulators as needed to ensure proper operation of the system.
- →Tests systems and equipment for proper pressures, leak-free joints, and operation.
- →Control Work: Makes repairs on large and small systems where any numbers and types of pneumatic and electrical controls and relays are required to make the system operate at peak efficiency.
- →Incumbent makes frequent inspections of equipment and controls, making all necessary adjustments to valves, relays, thermostats, and other controls to alter or change conditions to prescribed test temperatures and/or chamber pressures.
- →HVAC Equipment: Work involves installing, recognizing the causes of faulty equipment, and making repairs on a variety of HVAC systems.
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
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