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Major Duties:
Include but not limited to

• Plans weekly or monthly work schedules for subordinates.
• Monitors day-to-day activities ranging from general maintenance and repair activities, and overall equipment/subordinate effectiveness.
• Oversees daily maintenance and repairs of critical air handlers, decentralized chillers, glycol chillers, walk-in refrigerators, medicine refrigerators, lab refrigerators, patient nutrition refrigerators, and employee-use refrigerators. The critical systems include over 60 industrial sized air handling units of various sizes, over 400 refrigerators, walk in refrigerators, and freezers.
• Manages, supervises, plans, oversees, and trains the Utility System Section personnel which consists of six (6) Air Conditioning Equipment Operators, one (1) Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Leader, and five (5) Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanics. Responsible for shop administration, leadership, and guidance. Determines labor and material costs for maintenance and repairs, minor improvements, maintenance contracts, and alterations.
• Furnishes advice and recommendations to services requesting work; discusses factors pertaining to the work such as urgency of need, particularly if the work concerns patient care.
• Conducts periodic inspections of work that has been completed to determine the immediate and long-range work needs of the facility; assists in preparing and justifying equipment needs and planned maintenance programs; and works up projects to be accomplished. Prepares cost estimates for jobs and long-range programs, investigates work requests and suggestions, and makes necessary contacts to gather needed information.
• Develops and executes a training and development program for subordinates.
• Maintains accurate records of all repairs, special contracts and services rendered. Required to hold and maintain VA Contracting Officers Representative (COR) certification and serves as COR on all product and service contracts for the chiller plant and associated HVAC systems and equipment. Reviews scope of work descriptions for various special projects, including annual upgrade projects and semi-annual inspections.
• Prepares requisitions and specifications for material and write service contract proposals for repairs or installations and forward submission to facility contracting officer and FMS leadership as warranted.
• Works on own initiative in routine and general repairs and installations and inspects work performed by station labor and by contract labor to ensure proper installation and compliance with government specifications and codes.

Work Schedule: 7:45 am - 4:30pm, Other , The position is subject to afterhours, weekend, holiday and emergency callback due to operational needs or emergent conditions.
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Pre-employment physical required
• Subject to background/security investigation
• 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 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.

Qualifications

Physical Effort The position may be required to operate heavy duty equipment, including standing, climbing ladders and kneeling while performing work or inspecting the work of subordinate employees. The position must be capable of lifting up to 50 pounds.

Working Conditions In performance of technical duties, the position will spend time in all environments and may be exposed to all extremes of weather and other hazards, which are inherent to equipment maintenance activities. Position will be required to wear breathing respirators in certain situations including confined spaces. The position is subject to afterhours, weekend, holiday and emergency callback due to operational needs or emergent conditions.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Instruct
• Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, and Repair, etc.
• Lead or Supervise
• Materials
• Technical Practices
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment

IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify information provided by a candidate (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candidate's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.

Application of Veterans' Preference: Category rating and selection procedures place those with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each category. Preference eligible applicants that meet the eligibility and qualification requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality category.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.