Maintenance Worker (Leader)
What you'd do
You will serve as the Maintenance Work Leader for the Patient Care Section, providing day-to-day leadership and coordination for a team of 12 maintenance employees, including Locksmiths, Masons, Carpenters, and Painters. You will oversee maintenance activities supporting a complex medical center campus, consisting of 42 buildings encompassing approximately 975,000 square feet and 128.5 acres, ensuring facilities remain safe, functional, and compliant to support patient care operations.
Major duties
The incumbent will serve as the Maintenance Worker Leader for a multidisciplinary maintenance team, providing technical guidance, work assignments, and hands-on support for carpentry, locksmithing, masonry, painting, and facility maintenance operations. Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Furnishes instructions, demonstrates proper workmanship, works with, advises, and order parts, materials, and equipment for the carpentry craft which includes locksmith, glazing, finish, carpentry work, furniture repair and masonry. Plans and lays out work assignments, selects appropriate tools and materials, and completes work using established methods and accepted trade practices. Assigns staff to perform visual examination of areas of the Medical Center by conducting inspections to determine the need for maintenance and repair work on systems, structures and equipment within the area/zone assigned. Identifies the types of work required which include installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting and repair of finishes on a wide variety of materials, including ceilings, floors, walls, sidewalk, windows, doors, masonry, locksmithing, carpentry and painting/plastering. Identifies, reports and documents deviancies in workmanship, quality of installation and adherence to VA standards on overall work operations and problems. Builds, modifies, maintains, and repairs buildings and interior structures, including walls, ceilings, partitions, shelving, workbenches, furniture, handrails, wall protection systems, and related fixtures and finishes. Performs maintenance, repair, alteration, fabrication, and construction of interior and exterior surfaces, including floors, sidewalks, roads, curbs, manholes, catch basins, and concrete structures. Builds and repairs brick, block, stone, and masonry features using a variety of materials. Repairs, overhauls, modifies, tests, and installs locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations. Repairs stone and brick joints by cleaning, cutting, raking and repainting with mortar and caulking compound. Lays blocks or bricks following blueprints, plans, or drawings. Performs regular nonsupervisory (i.e., non-leader) work that is usually of the same kind and level as that done by the group led. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm or 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Position Description Title/PD#: Maintenance Worker (Leader)/PD542-066290 Physical Requirements: You may be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination as part of the pre-employment process for this position. Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of examination.
What you need to qualify
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 (other than blueprint reading) Lead or Supervise Materials Measuring Instruments Technical Practices Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Experience leading work in three or more trades (carpentry, locksmithing, masonry, painting, and facility maintenance operation); and Experience with machine maintenance and repair. 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.
Before you apply
Federal applications are different: your resume should be 3–5 pages and mirror the language of this announcement. Read our federal resume guide first — it's the #1 reason qualified people get screened out.
Don't miss the next one.
Get an email the moment a similar federal job opens — postings can close in as little as 5 days.