Maintenance Mechanic

This Maintenance Mechanic position is located in the Facilities Management Service, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, assigned to the National Center for Warrior Independence. The incumbent performs the full range of maintenance, repair, alteration, and installation work on buildings, structures, fixed and mobile equipment, and utility systems supporting patient care, clinical, administrative, and support operations.

• Duties may include but are not limited to:
  Lays out, fabricates, repairs, and installs structural and finish carpentry. Constructs and repairs partitions, walls, doors, door frames, windows, cabinets, casework, shelving, stairs, ramps, and roof and floor structures. Installs, alters, repairs, and maintains domestic water, sanitary waste, vent, storm, and low-pressure process piping systems. Installs, modifies, troubleshoots, and repairs branch-circuit wiring, lighting, receptacles, switches, panels, motors, motor controls, and low-voltage control and signal circuits.
  
  Maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs HVAC and refrigeration equipment including, air handlers, exhaust and supply fans, pumps, compressors, condensers, evaporators, and associated controls. Operates, inspects, tests, maintains, and repairs the emergency and standby power system, including diesel engine-generator sets, automatic transfer switches, day tanks, fuel storage and transfer systems, batteries and chargers, block heaters, cooling and exhaust systems, and paralleling and control equipment.
  
  Maintains medical gas and vacuum systems serving dental and clinical spaces, including source equipment (medical air compressors, medical-surgical vacuum pumps. Inspects, tests, maintains, and repairs fire pumps and their drivers, controllers, jockey pumps, suction and discharge piping, valves, and sensing lines supporting fire-suppression water supply. Performs preventive maintenance rounds, completes work orders in the computerized maintenance management system, maintains tools and shop areas, and responds to facility emergencies and utility failures across the campus.
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  Various tours of duty based on the needs of the service. Position Description Title/PD#:
  Maintenance Mechanic/PD14982A
  
  Physical Requirements:
  
  Work requires frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, climbing ladders and scaffolds, and working in cramped or awkward positions. The incumbent regularly lifts and carries tools, materials, and equipment up to 50 pounds unassisted and heavier loads with assistance or material-handling equipment. Work is performed from ladders, lifts, and rooftops and requires sustained physical exertion and manual dexterity. Promotion Potential:
  The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.

Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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  cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.

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;

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