Maintenance Worker

Summary

This position is located within a National Forest. This position is located on a Forest Service unit to perform a variety of duties involved in the upkeep of buildings, grounds, and related structures, fixtures, and utilities.

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Duties

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• Conducts visual examinations and operational tests to determine the need for, and the performance of, repair work on a level of difficulty and responsibility of trades such as carpentry, painting, plumbing, roofing, etc.
• Maintains and repairs facilities including but not limited to: comfort stations, fee booths, fish cleaning stations, information signs, and reservation boards.
• Maintains and repairs campsites, parking lots, picnic shelters, shower buildings, administration buildings, and visitor centers.
• Responsible for potable water system sampling, testing, and record-keeping as required by regulations for all administrative and recreation sites.
• Performs plumbing duties including responding to water system outages and diagnoses water loss problems, repairs leaks, pumps, pipes, and fixtures or related issues, and restores system functionality.
• Responsible for water system maintenance including monitoring leak location, testing wells, pumps, leak repair, and adding line replacements. Conducts routine system monitoring, valve exercising, and evaluation.
• Performs general carpentry work such as measuring, cutting, constructing, installing, repairing and modifying wood, composite, and wood substitute items where specific fit, and accuracy are within allowable limits to produce a serviceable product.
• Applies standard measurements, specifications, and instructions when constructing, installing, or repairing items, such as frame structures, decking, partitions, shelving, doors, forms, siding, and scaffolds.
• Responsible for conducting safety inspections of facilities, documenting safety hazards, working condition of facilities, and functionality.
• Responsible for maintaining facility maintenance records and inputting maintenance data into a national database.
• Develops annual maintenance schedule and maintains records for owned equipment, such as trailers, welders, saws, tractors, and other equipment.
• Moves, installs, repairs and replaces campground related fixtures, including wood and concrete tables, stairs, pads, cans, fire rings, etc.
• Answers maintenance and repair related questions by visitors or refers them to the appropriate authority. Occasionally works on facility rehabilitation projects.
• May have to repair/replace roofs and paint interior and/or exterior of buildings or projects.
• Operates both handheld and mobile radios, as well as a variety of hand and power tools such as hammers, sanders, grinders, saws, pliers, wrenches, drills, etc.
• May also perform a variety of laborer tasks such as clearing brush, seeding and sodding, clearing timber, policing grounds, waste disposal, mowing, repairing damaged roadways, cleaning ditches, and assisting other trade positions.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of your choosing.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
• Must be 18 years of age.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Wage System Qualifications Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to perform the duties of the position rather than length of experience. Eligibility will be determined by the relevance, scope and quality of all experience and training, regardless of where or how acquired.

Applicants will be ranked and rated based on their knowledge of the job elements identified in this announcement.

• Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision
• Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair, etc.
• Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic)
• Use of Measuring Instruments
• Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprinting reading)
• To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Knowledge of Materials

There is no substitution of education for this position.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Additional information

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is being used to fill positions for FY2027 Temporary Employment Hiring season. The expected start date for this position will be between January 10, 2027 to April 4, 2027.

By selecting the "Location Negotiable" option during the application process, implies your willingness to be considered for any official duty location listed on this announcement and/or those duty locations not listed for this Regional announcement. Pay rates vary depending on location. The salary shown is for the Rest of the U.S. See OPM.gov for additional information on pay rates.

This position is temporary, has a Not-to-Exceed date and will be filled for up to 6 months or as a not to exceed (NTE) 1 year, however an extension of the appointment may be possible without further competition. The appointment may also end early due to lack of work or lack of funds.

Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their application, associated documents and applicable personal information shared with other groups within the Region who have vacancies within the same occupational series, grade, full performance level and in any of the geographic location(s) listed on the announcement. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive consideration.

The duty station for this position will be at one of the duty locations listed in this announcement. Please visit the Office of Personnel Management's website for additional information on pay rates in your duty location State.

The USDA Forest Service has legislative authority to recruit and fill Permanent (Career/Career-Conditional), Temporary, and Term Appointments under the USDA Demonstration Project. Under this authority, any U.S. citizen may apply.

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP eligible must meet the agency's definition for a quality candidate as provided in the How You Will Be Evaluated section of this announcement to be considered.

If you are retired from the Federal Government and are selected for this vacancy, your retirement annuity may be offset from your pay.

This position is not eligible for telework.

Availability of government housing and federal day care facilities will vary by location.

Positions filled from this announcement may be a bargaining or a non-bargaining unit position represented by either NFFE, AFGE or NAGE.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.