MAINTENANCE MECHANIC LEADER

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority DHA for Certain Competitive Service Positions

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.

Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of aMAINTENANCE MECHANIC LEADER without more than normal supervision, provides information to supervisor on status and progress of work, causes of delays, and overall work operations and problems, ensures there is enough work to keep everyone in work crews busy, provide instruction of any of the accepted surface preparation and coating methods and techniques to prepare to paint, ad skilled in the use of tools and equipment such as brushes, rollers, spray guns, trowels, screeds, straight edges, graining devices, and wet and other thickness gauges, and provides shop mathematics and possess the skills to compute complex and exact projects with features such as arcs, tangents, and circles.
Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

Physical Effort: The work frequently handles objects weighing up to 10 pounds, and occasionally handles objects weighing up to 50 pounds without the assistance of lifting devices. The work involves standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing up and down ladders and scaffolding, and pulling and pushing at various stages of assignments to assemble items and install assemblies.

Working Conditions: The work is done in a well-lighted, heated, ventilated shop with concrete floors; in areas that are noisy and dirty; and occasionally outside. He is exposed to the possibility of cuts, bruises, scrapes, burns, and broken bones. The tasks may involve discomfort while wearing helmets, aprons, gloves, safety glasses, hard hats, and other protective equipment as required by changing assignments.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: