Maintenance Worker

Hiring Agency: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Fish and Wildlife Service is dedicated to conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife, and their habitats so future generations can continue to enjoy them. This position supports that mission by carrying out a wide range of intermediate-level construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance activities essential to the care and operation of Service lands and facilities. Key Responsibilities Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Use trade skills to troubleshoot and make repairs to refuge buildings and facilities. Use carpentry power and hand tools such as hammers, hand and power saws, drills, planes, routers, sanders, and nail guns, using safety rules/regulations/procedures. Apply shop mathematics, use measuring tools or instruments, follow oral and written instructions, use drawings, sketches, schematics, blueprints, etc. to determine work procedures and details of work layout. Lay out the installation, modification, or repair of systems for example: wiring systems in buildings, power and control circuits, and distribution panels. Safely operate heavy equipment within accepted parameters (e.g., narrow quarters, such as close to buildings, drop-offs or other obstructions and challenging field conditions such as marshy, unsteady or steep surfaces). Operate a tractor with attachments such as mowers, cutter bars, augers, plows, harrows, sprayers, discs, front-end scoops, and backhoes. Clean, replace, or make minor adjustment to such parts as fuel, electrical, brakes, steering, regulators, water/fuel pumps, carburetors, cooling systems or attachments to vehicles or heavy equipment. Operate and maintain heavy motorized equipment (e.g. front-end loader, forklift, dump truck, farm agricultural tractor and implements, rubber tired backhoe/ loader, skid steer, excavator, bulldozer, road grader) and other pieces of equipment as needed for project activities. Requirements & Education There is no substitution of education for experience for Federal Wage System (FWS) positions. Which agency is hiring for this position? This position is with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior. What is the salary for this position? The posted pay range is $27.13 – $31.65/hr. Is this position remote or telework eligible? This position is eligible for telework. What is the application deadline? Applications close on 2026-10-05. Who is eligible to apply? This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path. Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government #J-18808-Ljbffr U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service