Maintenance Mechanic

Summary This position is located in the Engineering Maintenance Department at the Thomas E. Creek VA Health Care System Center in Amarillo, TX. Incumbent shall have responsibility for multiple trade activities relative to maintenance, repair and replacement to isolate or resolve malfunction or make necessary adjustments and repairs requiring the use of a variety of trades and practices associated with electrical, pipefitting, and carpentry. Responsibilities Electrical: Must have knowledge of the electrical trade to permit working from blueprints, wiring diagrams, cut-sheets, manufacturers drawings and engineering drawings, to plan and layout work to install and repair new and existing electrical systems, controls, fire alarm panels and equipment for furnishing light and power to AHU's, RTU's, automatic faucets, package boilers, automatic valves, controls for kitchen equipment including disposals, refrigerators, freezers, rational cookers, fryers, and ovens, to include replacing ballasts, tracing circuits, and adding additional circuits. Disassembles equipment, repairs and/or replaces parts and components, cleans and reassembles. Incumbent uses a variety of tools and test equipment including wire cutters and strippers, drills, soldering irons, ohmmeters, ammeters, voltmeters and various other electrical and measuring devices. Pipefitting: Must have knowledge of pipefitting methods and techniques. Must acquire the skill thru training and previous experience as needed to install, modify, and repair new and existing high-pressure piping systems and equipment such as steam heating, steam generation, and hydraulic systems, steam generators, flash and expansion tanks, condensate, vacuum, and circulating pumps, and radiators. Incumbent must also have the skill needed to install equipment i.e. water heaters, food service equipment, pumps, valves, steam operated equipment, electric motors, condensate return systems, heat exchangers, chill water systems, control valves, automatic faucets, package boilers, automatic valves, using accepted plumbing and mechanical trade practices. Carpentry: Must know how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and work with simple fractions to plan and measure material according to requirements and dimensions outlined in shop drawings, architectural drawings and knowledge of the carpentry trade. Knowledge of the use of various carpentry tools and machinery such as table saws, radial arm saws, band saws, drill pressed, hammer, hand saws, tile cutters, knives, etc., will be required to make repairs as a team member of the ward zone mechanic. Incumbent must have journeyman level carpentry skills gained through experience, training or a combination of both. Incumbent will serve on an overtime required snow/ice removal team during inclement weather situations. Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm or 9:00pm - 5:30am Position Description Title/PD#: Maintenance Mechanic/PD504-1089A Physical Requirements: Heavy lifting (45 lbs and over); Moderate carrying (15-44 pounds); Straight pulling (up to 2 hours); Pushing (up to 4 hour); Reaching above shoulder; Use of fingers; Both hands required; Walking (up to 8 hours); Standing (up to 6 hours); Crawling (up to 1 hours); Kneeling (up to 2 hours); Repeated bending (up to 4 hours); Climbing, use of legs and arms; Both legs required; Ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously; Near vision correctable at 13" to 16"; Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other; Depth perception; Ability to distinguish basic colors; Ability to distinguish shades of colors; Hearing (aid permitted).The duty require considerable movement around the hospital and involves bending, lifting, working from ladders and scaffolding and platforms, both inside and outside buildings, and crawling through restrictive areas. The incumbent must occasionally lift equipment or materials weighing fifty pounds or more with proper equipment. Assignments may require incumbent to stand, stoop, kneel, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job Subject to a background/suitability investigation Designated and/or random drug testing may be required Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 A complete application package; including Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Requirements continued in Qualifications Section Qualifications 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; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading) Materials Measuring Instruments Technical Practices Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Without more than normal supervision 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Education Additional Information Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer (TJO). Please visit the Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP), va.gov/EMPLOYEE/docs/The-Fair-Chance-to-Compete-Act.pdf for more information. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. 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