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Small Engine Mechanic Leader
Forest Service · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within a National Interagency Support Cache (NISC). This position acts as a leader to ensure maintenance and repair of support equipment included in the National Fire Equipment System inventory, as well as other small engine powered equipment used in support of incident activity. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Humberto Ontiveros at Humberto.ontiveros@usda.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Leads three or more workers on a regular and recurring basis.
- →Leads the maintenance and repair of powered support equipment included in the National Fire Equipment System (NFES) inventory, as well as other small engine powered equipment used in support of incident activity.
- →Assures agency safety rules and policies are complied with, the limits of safe equipment operation are not exceeded, and all tools are properly used.
- →Distributes and balances workloads among crew members and schedules job assignments for various pieces of small engine repair.
- →Works independently to accomplish a full range of maintenance, diagnostic testing, and repair work on a variety of small engine equipment.
- →Performs major and minor overhauls and repairs following standards established by manufacturers and agency.
- →Performs repair work on equipment used in refurbishment operations, and in support of various other departments.
- →Uses tools and equipment such as power tools, compression gauges, ammeters and voltmeters, computerized engine analyzers, and other diagnostic equipment to locate faulty parts and tune engine.
- →Performs metal inert gas welding Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) or Metal inert gas (MIG).
- →Duties listed are at the full performance of WL-08 grade level.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
- ✓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
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 22b4bd89-9d8b-414c-bc79-f6c8f0f2e829
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