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SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC
Army National Guard Units · Posted 136 days ago
On-site Camp Murray, WA $37.2 – $43.3/hr Apply by Jun 18, 2026 Miscellaneous Transportation/Mobile Equipment Maintenance ESTPISTP Trades
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This is a Washington Army National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Unit Technician position: SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Location: Washington Unit Training Equipment Site JBLM, Washington 98433 Army National Guard Units Appointment Type: Permanent, excepted service Advertised as: ENLISTED May be used to fill one or more vacancies. *Ensure you read this announcement in its entirety, complete all application requirements, and your USA Jobs profile name is accurate*
What You'll Do
- →A WG-5801-11, SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC: Performs maintenance, troubleshooting, and major repair on heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical, and automotive vehicles.
- →This may include self-propelled artillery, tracked cargo and personnel carriers, road graders, mobile cranes, front loaders, bulldozers, power shovels, tanks, tracked combat vehicles, all terrain vehicles, semi trailers, forklifts, tractors, and accessory equipment.
- →Makes repairs and modifications to assemblies and components such as voltage regulators, generators/alternators, brake cylinders, etc., for use or placement in systems for which they were not specifically designed.
- →Improvises work when standard procedures do not apply.
- →Troubleshoots equipment with a variety of the mechanically complex major systems and diagnoses difficult performance problems and the cause of mechanical failures by means of visual and auditory checks, uses test equipment such as engine analyzers, compression testers, voltmeters, ohmmeters, pressure gauges and computer diagnostic tools.
- →Utilizes embedded diagnostics in equipment and a wide variety of specialized original equipment manufacturer system analyzers in order to determine the exact nature or extent of repair.
- →Determines what adjustments may be necessary to complete work orders, and whether any additional repairs other than those specified or indicated on the work order are necessary.
- →Removes and disassembles engines and complex major assemblies, sub-assemblies, components, and fuel, hydraulic, and oil pressure systems.
- →Makes the appropriate repairs, overhaul, or modifications in accordance with the proper repair specifications and procedures, and improvises repair techniques when standard procedures are not available.
- →Reassembles engines and other systems, and adjusts, tests, and reinstalls in vehicles and equipment as necessary.
- →Makes adjustments and repairs to electrical and suspension systems.
- →Repairs equipment with a variety of interconnected systems to include state of the art electrical and electronic, fuel injection, interconnected gear reduction, multiple engine, and similarly complex systems.
- →Improvises, substitutes, or alters components or parts to fit into systems for which the items were not specially designed or finds other ways to correct defects when existing methods and procedures do not give desired results.
- →Independently performs repairs and maintenance functions with little or no supervision in remote locations.
Requirements
- ✓MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: Military Grades: E4 - E6 Desired Military Assignments: 91 Series - Applicants need not be assigned to the position or possess the MOS to apply or be considered for selection.
- ✓Must have a valid Washington state and military driver's license.
- ✓You are responsible to maintain awareness of your environmental responsibilities as dictated by legal and regulatory requirements, your organization, and its changing mission.
- ✓Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED
Personality Fit
Job ID: 0e226090-f51d-4e9f-9580-4c7b0cbe06c6
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