Generator Technician

Are you ready to power up your career as a Generator Technician with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs? The Generator Technician position offers a chance to work with vital equipment that keeps operations running smoothly. This role provides hands‑on experience with a wide range of generators and tools at Fort Indiantown Gap. You will support important missions by making sure critical power systems stay reliable.

This is a great opportunity to grow your skills while supporting an agency with an important purpose.

This position supports Fort Indiantown Gap by diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining a large fleet of diesel and natural gas‑powered generators and related equipment. The role ensures that emergency power systems and light plants remain safe, dependable, and ready for use. As a Generator Technician, you will perform the following duties:

• Generator Repair: Diagnose and repair engines, alternators, fuel systems, cooling systems, control panels, and other components
• Troubleshooting Tasks: Resolve mechanical and electronic failures using diagnostic tools and replace or calibrate controls and sensors
• System Testing: Test diesel and natural gas engines to identify defects and repair or replace faulty fuel system parts
• Equipment Installation: Install standby generators and transfer switches and coordinate testing with manufacturer representatives
• Preventive Maintenance: Maintain service schedules, inspect equipment, perform load‑bank testing, and make adjustments and calibrations
• Operational Support: Work with site departments, prepare maintenance records, transport tools and equipment, and follow all safety procedures

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full‑time employment, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30‑minute lunch. In this role, you will be required to work during emergencies and office closings.
• Overtime as operationally necessary
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non‑negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• Three years of skilled experience in the diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of generators, which includes one year of skilled experience in the diagnosis and repair of diesel generators;
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• An equivalent combination of experience and training, which includes one year of skilled experience in the diagnosis and repair of diesel generators.

• You must have possession of an active motor vehicle license.

• You must possess a valid federal or state‑issued photo  pass a favorable National Crime Information Center (NCIC) screening for admittance to Fort Indiantown Gap.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• Completion of any formal training (high school or vocational program, apprenticeship, or post high school technical program) in the electrical trade
• Experience as an electrician
• Experience working with generators
• Experience performing preventative maintenance on generators
• Experience pulling oil for sampling from generators
• Experience trouble shooting mechanical and electrical issues in generators
• Experience installing new generators and manual and/or automatic transfer switches for backup power to facilities
• Experience working on diesel, liquid propane (LP), and/or natural gas generators
• Experience working from construction sketches, diagrams, and/or blueprints in the electrical trade

• A conditional offer of employment will require submission of criminal history reports. See hiring agency contact information.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and…