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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 133 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within Facilities Management Service (FMS) at the VA Portland Medical Center and combines the duties of a journeyman carpenter, journeyman painter and a journeyman sign maker in order to provide more flexibility in the assignment of work.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but not limited to: The incumbent as a journeyman carpenter will be required to work on construction, alteration, repair and modification of structures such as: framework, doors, finish paneling, windows, rough furniture, interior and exterior trim, rafters, trusses and beams, where accuracy, spacing and fit are essential and appearance is important.
- →Uses skilled techniques to construct, install, repair, and modify wood and wood substitute structures and items requiring close tolerance fit and structural soundness.
- →Carpenter plans and completes projects from layouts to final assembly.
- →Must be able to work from blueprints, sketches and work orders.
- →Incumbent is able to interpret drawings, blueprints, and specifications independently, and determine the layout and work sequences and types of lumber or special related materials.
- →Accuracy, spacing, fit, and structural soundness and finished appearance are essential.
- →Must be able to construct straight angles and curved cuts which must be exact.
- →Must be able to assemble installations where items are closely joined to other assemblies to strengthen and support or to provide air and weather tight fits.
- →Must know how to replace glass window panes, layout and install metal and wood studs for sheetrock and plastered walls, install drop ceilings, repair roofs and flashing of buildings, etc.
- →Mixes concrete and installs footings, curbs, walls and like construction.
- →Lays and repairs floor coverings and installs plastic coverings on counter tops and other related items.
- →Performs plastering on all types of backgrounds such as metal, wood or gypsum lath, wallboard and masonry surfaces, as well as repair patching of plaster and stucco surfaces.
- →All work and tool machinery use will be done in a safe manner in accordance with V.A. and Medical Center guidelines as published.
- →Performs preventive maintenance/inspections on tools and equipment and machinery related to trade.
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.
- ✓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 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.
- ✓There is no education substitution for this series/grade.
Personality Fit
Job ID: c3d54502-767d-496d-96c1-aa6648ac875e
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