Maintenance Worker Leader.

About the role

This position directs manual labor, landscaping, and grounds maintenance work, carries out equipment operation involving industrial-type and field tractors, backhoes, forklifts, and skid loaders, and supports the range mission through trades, labor, and operations work.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain industrial-type, rubber-tired and field tractors, backhoes, forklifts, and skid loaders.
• Perform skilled and semi-skilled tasks related to range support operations and maintenance of Range Complex facilities and training areas.
• Use plumbing, electrical, and carpentry tools and powered equipment.
• Assign immediate tasks to individual workers and ensure plans, materials, and tools are available.
• Obtain needed stock from supply locations to support the range mission.
• Pass on instructions from supervisors to workers and report on work status and progress.
• Complete plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and minor mechanical repairs on targets, markers, and buildings.
• Perform maintenance on a variety of target equipment.

Requirements

• Ability to lead or supervise common range operations, maintenance, plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and equipment operation.
• Ability to interpret instructions, specifications, and blueprints.
• Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment.
• Knowledge of equipment assembly, installation, and repair.
• Knowledge of materials and technical practices.
• Ability to use measuring instruments.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds regularly and occasionally lift heavier items with assistance.
• Completion of a pre-employment physical examination and annual examinations thereafter.
• Willingness to work days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and/or shift work based on mission requirements.

Qualifications

• No specific length of training or experience required; ability to demonstrate sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities through experience.
• Ability to perform the work of a Maintenance Worker Leader without more than normal supervision.
• Failure to meet the screen-out element will result in an ineligible rating.

Physical Efforts

The work requires frequent standing, bending, crouching, kneeling, and climbing. May involve working on ladders, scaffolds, or platforms, and lifting and carrying tools and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds, occasionally more with assistance.

Working Conditions

Maintenance work is normally performed outside with exposure to wide variations in weather and temperature. Incumbent is exposed to potential injury from power tools, flying objects, cuts, scrapes, traffic hazards, and risk of insect, spider, and snake bites.