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Duties will include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Repair, use and preventive maintenance of overhead patient lifting equipment, portable patient lifting equipment, beds, wheelchairs, stretchers
• Ability to use and maintain medical air, medical vacuum, instrument air, waste anesthesia gas, dental air, dental vacuum, dental waste anesthesia gas, condensate return, hot water recirculation, heating hot water, chilled water, sump, domestic water pressure booster, ice melt, sump pump alarms
• Read and interpret technical manuals, building plans, blueprints, and guides
• Ability to draw or sketch a basic drawing that includes perspective and dimensions
• Installs, modifies, repairs, maintains, and diagnoses trouble and makes repairs (electrical).
• Performs a variety of plumbing installation and maintenance work which involves removing, cleaning, replacing, packing, and sealing defective parts of utility, supply, and disposal systems such as dirty traps, sections of broken pipe and tile, clogged pipes and fixtures, and leaky faucets and drains.
• Planning and layout of sheet metal assemblies and fabrications and the ability to read, interpret and design are completed using the connecting joints.
• Install sheet metal assemblies which could be used in HVAC systems, oven exhaust, and ventilation systems.
• Make repairs and preventive maintenance on large and small systems where any numbers and types of pneudraulics and electrical controls and relays are required to make the system operate at peak efficiency.
• Utilizes knowledge of pneudraulics, hydraulic, and mechanical operating characteristics of various machinery and equipment (Various)
• Operate and maintain equipment such as pallet jacks, pallet stacker truck, power pallet jacks, warehouse scales, storage cages, arena seating, etc.
• Inspects equipment and controls, making all necessary adjustments to valves, relays, and other controls to alter or change conditions to prescribed test temperatures and/or chamber pressures.
• Uses voltmeters and wat maters to test equipment.
• Operates various control systems; troubleshooting, installing and altering equipment/systems; using electrical measuring instruments and testing equipment; etc.
• Maintaining plant operational records
• Responsible for the safe handling of all hazardous materials associated with plant maintenance.
• Maintain and use traffic control barriers, bollards, guard shacks, guard rails, building ladders, speed bumps, parking lot fencing, electric gates, parking lot height limit alarms, wall and door protection, cardboard compactors, bio-hazard sterilizer, glass crushers, scissors and equipment lifts, dock plates, bumper locks, overhead doors, roll down "firefly" doors
• Maintain trash carts, scrubbers, floor polishing equipment, vacuum cleaners, food conveyors, tray-veyors, ovens, dishwashers, food disposal units, food mixing equipment, food slicing equipment, glass washers, food delivery and warming units, pot and pan washers
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full Time, 7:00am - 3:30pm
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

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the following:

SCREEN OUT:Ability to do the work of a Maintenance Mechanic without more than normal supervision. To qualify for this position, experience must include repairing and maintaining all types of patients lifting equipment, medical pumps, safety and traffic equipment, disposal equipment, non-motor vehicle equipment, and utility systems. (*If you answer yes to this question, your experience must be documented in your resume to receive full credit).

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:The work requires the incumbent to stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions, frequently handle, lift, and carry items that weigh up to fifty pounds, and occasionally lift and carry items that weigh over fifty pounds. Incumbents will engage in periods of continuous exertion while cutting, welding, bending, and shaping complex items and constructing larger, bulkier items. The workday requires frequent activity and foot travel as well as use of all hand and power tools.

WORKING CONDITIONS:The work is performed inside, outside in fair weather and foul. It is usually dirty, dusty, greasy, wet, and sometimes requires incumbent to make repairs or perform maintenance in areas where bad smelling fumes are present. Workers may be required to work from elevated positions from a ladder, scaffolding or bucket or scissors lift. Workers may be required to work in cramped or close spaces. There is the possibility of frequent exposure to uncomfortable heat and cold conditions. Incumbent is exposed to possibility of cuts, abrasions, strains, sprains, burns and infection as well as the possibility of broken bones. Some work may expose incumbent to toxic fumes, high pressure air, high pressure fluids, steam, and condensate. Workers will be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment as dictated by work conditions, such as protective eyewear, safety shoes/boots.
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:

• Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Measuring Instruments
• Technical Practices
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Without more than normal supervision

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.