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Maintenance Worker
Forest Service · Posted 46 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within a National Forest. This position is located on a Forest Service unit to perform a variety of duties involved in the upkeep of buildings, grounds, and related structures, fixtures, and utilities.
What You'll Do
- →Conducts visual examinations and operational tests to determine the need for, and the performance of, repair work on a level of difficulty and responsibility of trades such as carpentry, painting, plumbing, roofing, etc.
- →Maintains and repairs facilities including but not limited to: comfort stations, fee booths, fish cleaning stations, information signs, and reservation boards.
- →Maintains and repairs campsites, parking lots, picnic shelters, shower buildings, administration buildings, and visitor centers.
- →Responsible for potable water system sampling, testing, and record-keeping as required by regulations for all administrative and recreation sites.
- →Performs plumbing duties including responding to water system outages and diagnoses water loss problems, repairs leaks, pumps, pipes, and fixtures or related issues, and restores system functionality.
- →Responsible for water system maintenance including monitoring leak location, testing wells, pumps, leak repair, and adding line replacements.
- →Conducts routine system monitoring, valve exercising, and evaluation.
- →Performs general carpentry work such as measuring, cutting, constructing, installing, repairing and modifying wood, composite, and wood substitute items where specific fit, and accuracy are within allowable limits to produce a serviceable product.
- →Applies standard measurements, specifications, and instructions when constructing, installing, or repairing items, such as frame structures, decking, partitions, shelving, doors, forms, siding, and scaffolds.
- →Responsible for conducting safety inspections of facilities, documenting safety hazards, working condition of facilities, and functionality.
- →Responsible for maintaining facility maintenance records and inputting maintenance data into a national database.
- →Develops annual maintenance schedule and maintains records for owned equipment, such as trailers, welders, saws, tractors, and other equipment.
- →Moves, installs, repairs and replaces campground related fixtures, including wood and concrete tables, stairs, pads, cans, fire rings, etc.
- →Answers maintenance and repair related questions by visitors or refers them to the appropriate authority.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of your choosing.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
- ✓Must be 18 years of age.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 21479f91-5884-403c-8854-7859059f296c
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