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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 41 days ago
On-site Cincinnati, OH $31.3 – $36.8/hr Apply by Aug 13, 2026 Maintenance Mechanic ESTPISTP OperationsTrades
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The Maintenance Mechanic performs general maintenance, repair, fabrication, and installation work supporting the Medical Center operations. Receives assignments through work orders, supervisors, or emergency requests and independently prioritizes tasks. Resolves complex mechanical problems requiring custom fabrication, welding, machining, and system modifications. Exercises independent judgment to complete assignments efficiently, with work reviewed primarily for quality and results.
What You'll Do
- →A Maintenance Mechanic performs the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and various repair tasks throughout the medical center, including the trades of Mechanical, Laboratory Equipment Technician, Electrical Equipment Repairing, Precision Machinist, Bio-Medical Equipment Technician, and plumbing.
- →These overall duties should be at or near a journeymen level ability.
- →Assigned tasks are generally not as technical as major repairs and installations as required by an employee classified in an individual trade.
- →Must be able to use and interpret mechanical drawings and parts diagrams from manufacturers and suppliers.
- →Must also be able to understand and work with different types of equipment and tools to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair equipment properly and safely to manufacturer specifications.
- →Precision Machinist (15%) Precision Machining: Utilizing machinery such as Computer Numerically Controls (CNC) lathes, mills, EDMs, Plasma cutters, cutters to create complex parts and fixtures.
- →Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Operating a variety of sheet metal machinery and tooling.
- →Lays out work, reads and interprets blueprints and technical publications, designs and draws working sketches.
- →Lays out work, reads and interprets blueprints and technical publications, designs and draws working sketches.
- →Welds ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys such as cobalt, chrome, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, and titanium.
- →Welds butt, lap, tee, and corner joints in flat, vertical, horizontal, and overhead working positions.
- →Welds metals and alloys by shielded gas welding (Heli-arc), metallic arc, oxyacetylene, and resistance welding processes.
- →Electrical Equipment Repairing (10%) Troubleshoots and repairs various types of electromechanical devices.
- →Be able to read simple electrical diagrams in aid to help troubleshoot and repair equipment.
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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