Boiler Mechanic

About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences - then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Position Location

Fallon, Nevada

Job Overview

Maintain boiler systems, oversee maintenance, enforce safety protocols, and adjust controls. Responsibilities may include performing routine maintenance on boilers and associated equipment, piping systems and burners. Other duties include keeping service and repair logs, communicating with customers or organizations, performing preventative maintenance checks on equipment, and promoting efficiency. Utilizing mechanical skills and systems knowledge to keep boilers functioning properly and ensure the safety of NAS Fallon customers.

This is an advanced semi-skilled position. Employees are required to complete all Mechanic 1, 2 and 3 requirements for a total of forty-eight (48) months of service and six hundred (600) successful hours of trade-related vocational instruction or 8,000 hours of documented experience. An employee who fails to complete the required hours for training/coursework will be subject to discipline procedures. Employees who attain established levels of proficiency and qualifications are eligible to move to the next mechanic level.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Duties:

• Perform a variety of tasks on both the interior and exterior of buildings, installing, repairing, and maintaining commercial gas and oil heating systems and associated equipment in accordance with mechanical, plumbing, EPA, and electrical code guidelines.
• Perform work required for the maintenance and operation of a boiler plant including, but not limited to, the maintenance and operation of the following types of equipment:
  Sieman Apogee Energy Management System (EMS), compressors and pneumatic control systems, high pressure boilers and hydraulic pumps.
• Troubleshoot, test, repair, replace, maintain, or modify heating systems and equipment including, but not limited to, valves, gas pressure and air flow switches, thermostats, filters, nozzles, burner units, air-compressors, pumps, 3-phase electric motors, breaker switches, piping, tubing and related gas pressure and hot water systems and electrical, mechanical, and electronic control panels.
• Open and clean boilers as directed.
• Monitor and check contracted repairs to ensure all repairs to boilers are completed properly.
• Maintain and create record(s) and report(s) of work accomplished and materials used.
• Must recognize and determine the correct method for correcting malfunctions on boiler systems and appurtenances.
• Perform visual, audible and mechanical checks.
• Check gauges, recording devices and controllers.
• Must understand the principles of steam and generating processes.
• Must be familiar with burner controls and its operations on both oil and gas configurations.
• Respond to emergency call outs as requested.
• Follow work assignments, instructions, labeled information and safety standards independently. Interpret gauges, charts, keep complete records, use and interpret various testing devices related to boiler operation.
• Perform responsibilities and heavy manual labor for extended periods of time (8-12 hours a day) even during Operate and maintain high and low-pressure boilers.
• Perform compression and safety tests.
• Take and monitor water sampling and treatment.
• Perform preventative maintenance.
• Perform minor pipe repairs.
• Replace worn parts, including valves and filters.
• Follow instructions from boiler engineers and/or other staff, perform self-study, attend training opportunities as available.
• Demonstrated literacy on computer equipment. Microsoft software and demonstrate the use of Word, Excel, or any other software programs. The use of email is expected.
• Willingness to receive instruction from boiler engineers and other staff, perform self-study, attend training opportunities as available.
• Assists in performing HAZMAT/safety inspections;…