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Utility Systems Operator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 54 days ago
On-site Durham, NC $28.2 – $32.9/hr Apply by May 28, 2026 Utility Systems Operating ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Operations
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This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network, VISN 6, Facilities Management Service, Operations, Durham VA Medical Center. The Utility Systems Operator works as a shift plant operator with shift responsibility for operation, maintenance and repair of the Air Conditioning Plant and the Boiler Plant that includes an Energy Management Control System.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are limited to: This position is responsible for operating and maintaining Boiler Plant equipment and systems, HVAC equipment and systems, routine and preventative maintenance and repair to Utilities Support Systems Electrical Distribution, Emergency Power, BMS, HVAC, Water, Steam, Oxygen, Fire Alarm, Vacuum.
- →Medical Air, Communication, Plumbing/Sewer, Nitrogen, Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Air Production.
- →Perform complex maintenance and repair on Utilities Support Systems Electrical Distribution, Emergency Power, (BMS): HVAC, Water, Steam, Oxygen, Fire Alarm, Vacuum, Medical Air, Communication, Plumbing/Sewer, Nitrogen/Nitrous Oxide/Carbon Dioxide/ Air Production - Hand/Power Tools/ Pneumatic tools.
- →Performs normal repetitive functions of operations, observations, inspections, tests, repairs and preventive maintenance on the Air Conditioning Plant and the Boiler Plant as per standing shift orders and daily operation orders.
- →Starting or stopping of selected motor driven equipment, controlling key temperatures, pressures, humidity, and other mechanical conditions, utilizing the computerized control reheat system.
- →This position utilizes and troubleshoots highly complex systems of electronic sensing and control, specifically the Siemens Apogee Insight Building Automation System which is an operating system that controls the building's Energy Management System and main Chiller Plant operations by direct digital controls and line code programming.
- →Makes chemical test of water systems for the Boiler Plant and Air Conditioning Plant.
- →Makes adjustments to water by adding chemicals or blow down to maintain proper and effective water treatment.
- →Modifying or redesigning manual or automated control systems for the facility's Boiler Plant and/or AC systems or are the automated and manual control systems designed and maintained by authorized Federal contractors or manufacturers' representatives Siemens Insight Building Automated Control System.
- →Currently being redesigned and upgraded to Desigo, also Siemens platform.
- →Work Schedule: 12 Hour Shift (Tour of Duty needs to be clarified) Compressed/Flexible Schedule: (To be determined) Position Description Title/PD#: Utility Systems Operator/PD07002A Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Pre-employment physical required 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.
- ✓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 or 2-year trial 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 or trial 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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