Maintenance Mechanic

Job Title

Maintenance Mechanic/PD523-04184-A

Duties

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• Performs routine work orders.
• Performs a variety of preventive maintenance tasks such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other related trades required in maintenance and repair of buildings, structures, fixtures, and related property.
• Makes visual and operational inspections of a variety of wood, brick, metal and masonry buildings to detect deficiencies and determine repair needs.
• Determines materials needed, and makes repairs or replaces items found defective.
• Performs inspections to include checking the condition of foundations, walls, flooring, roofs, doors, windows, plumbing, electrical systems, building approaches and obvious safety and fire hazards.
• Performs carpentry work involving maintenance and repair of a variety of wood products.
• Selects lumber, materials, supplies and tools.
• Measures and cuts materials to required lengths and dimensions.
• Repairs or replaces flooring, sheet rock, plywood, siding, sheathing, roofing doors, jambs and window frames, interior and exterior trim.
• Fabricates and installs frames or casings for windows and doors.
• Installs doors and door hardware, repairs roofs by shingling or installing roll roofing.
• Repairs floors by replacing flooring.
• Replaces floor tile and vinyl sheet flooring.
• Uses a variety of hand and power tools to accomplish work.
• Performs plumbing work involving maintenance and repair of a wide variety of piping, plumbing fixtures (lavatories, commodes, sink, disposals, bath tubs and shower fixtures).
• Measures, cuts and threads piping to required lengths using correct size of pipe and threading the correct number of threads.
• Installs piping by using threaded couplings, joints, fittings and by soldering.
• Uses a variety of hand and power tools to accomplish such task as cutting and threading pipe, unstopping drains, installing fixtures and piping and repairing or replacing all of the above.
• Makes electrical repairs by removing and replacing defective parts such as incandescent and fluorescent fixtures, receptacles, switches, pull chains, covers, ballasts, starters, sockets, door ball buttons, transformers, and other items related to the installed system.
• Changes bulbs in hard to reach locations.
• Performs snow/ice control.
• Operates equipment with specially designed attachments (e.g., snow plow, mounted sand spreaders, rotary snow blowers) used separately or simultaneously.
• May also operate conventional snow removal or clearing equipment as needed.
• Ensures accomplished repairs are finished by sanding and finishing.
• Performs shop mathematics in order to compute measurements, angles, arcs, etc.
• Cuts various materials to required size or shape, match colors, patterns and materials, and install various materials to obtain proper fit, strength and appearance.
• Reads and interprets drawings and sketches.
• Repairs or replaces flush valves, vacuum breakers, faucets, and traps.
• Clears clogged sink, lavatory, tub and shower drains, unstops sanitary sewer drains and lines.

Work Schedule: To be determined by management

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Notification:

• This position is a AFGE Bargaining Unit position.
• This position is covered by a special rate range for federal wage system skilled positions.
• This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until 09/30/2026. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be 07/10/2026, with subsequent cut-off dates bi-weekly. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

US Department of Veterans Affairs