Maintenance Mechanic

About the role

This position performs a variety of preventive maintenance tasks such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other related trades required in maintenance and repair of buildings, structures, fixtures, and related property.

Responsibilities

• Makes visual and operational inspections of a variety of wood, brick, metal and masonry buildings to detect deficiencies and determine repair needs.
• Determines materials needed, and makes repairs or replaces items found defective.
• Performs inspections to include checking the condition of foundations, walls, flooring, roofs, doors, windows, plumbing, electrical systems, building approaches and obvious safety and fire hazards.
• Performs carpentry work involving maintenance and repair of a variety of wood products.
• Selects lumber, materials, supplies and tools.
• Cuts materials to required lengths and dimensions.
• Repairs or replaces flooring, sheet rock, plywood, siding, sheathing, roofing doors, jambs and window frames, interior and exterior trim.
• Fabricates and installs frames or casings for windows and doors.
• Installs doors and door hardware, repairs roofs by shingling or installing roll roofing.
• Repairs floors by replacing flooring.
• Replaces floor tile and vinyl sheet flooring.
• Uses a variety of hand and power tools to accomplish work.
• Performs plumbing work involving maintenance and repair of a wide variety of piping, plumbing fixtures (lavatories, commodes, sink, disposals, bath tubs and shower fixtures).
• Measures, cuts and threads piping to required lengths using correct size of pipe and threading the correct number of threads.
• Installs piping by using threaded couplings, joints, fittings and by soldering.
• Uses a variety of hand and power tools to accomplish such task as cutting and threading pipe, unstopping drains, installing fixtures and piping and repairing or replacing all of the above.
• Makes electrical repairs by removing and replacing defective parts such as incandescent and fluorescent fixtures, receptacles, switches, pull chains, covers, ballasts, starters, sockets, door ball buttons, transformers, and other items related to the installed system.
• Changes bulbs in hard to reach locations.
• Performs snow/ice control.
• Operates equipment with specially designed attachments (e.g., snow plow, mounted sand spreaders, rotary snow blowers) used separately or simultaneously.
• Ensures accomplished repairs are finished by sanding and finishing.
• Performs shop mathematics in order to compute measurements, angles, arcs, etc.
• Cuts various materials to required size or shape, match colors, patterns and materials, and install various materials to obtain proper fit, strength and appearance.
• Reads and interprets drawings and sketches.
• Repairs or replaces flush valves, vacuum breakers, faucets, and traps.
• Clears clogged sink, lavatory, tub and shower drains, unstops sanitary sewer drains and lines.

Requirements

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. No specific length of training and experience is required, but evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume.

Qualifications

• Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal Supervision
• Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (Includes Blueprint Reading)
• Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, and Repair, etc.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).

Pay

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Schedule

Work Schedule: To be determined by management

Benefits

• Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).