This position is located within the Maintenance and Repair Section of the Engineering Department at the Fresno VA Medical Center in Fresno, CA.

Duties

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following: Installing, modifying, repairing, maintaining, troubleshooting, testing, and loading new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment. Working from building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, and maintenance and repair manuals. They Planning and laying out the routing, placement, type, size, gauge, balance, load, continuity, and safe operation of electrical lines, circuits, systems, equipment and controls. Determining and placing distribution panels, boxes, fittings, and connections and install wiring, couplings, conduit, relays, fixtures, transformers and other electrical devices. Using knowledge of the operation and installation of a variety of complete electrical systems and equipment, wiring systems in industrial complexes and buildings, distribution panels to industrial machinery and other electrical equipment. Using knowledge of the various gauges, sizes, and types of wire, conduit, couplings fittings, relay boxes, circuit breakers, and other electrical devices, and the ability to arrange and install them in ways that insure the proper and sate operation of electrical systems and equipment. Interpreting and applying the National Electrical Code, local codes, building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, and engineering drawings, and to use trade formulas to calculate common properties, e.g., voltage, voltage drop and current capability. Using hand tools, power tools, such as cable pullers, hydraulic benders, and pipe threading machines, and a wide variety of test equipment, for example, meggers, multi-meters, frequency meters, watt-meters, phase rotation meters, audio tone location equipment, high potential testers, ground fault interrupter testing equipment, recording amp-meters, and circuit analyzers. Performing other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Electrical workers make repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard-to-reach places. This requires electrical workers to stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb, and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Electrical workers frequently lift and carry tools, equipment, and parts weighing up to 20 pounds and, less often, up to 40 pounds. Occasionally, they lift or move with assistance moderately heavy objects weighing more than 40 pounds. The work is performed both inside and outside. Electrical workers are sometimes required to make repairs and installations in bad weather, in work areas that are noisy, dirty, dusty, and greasy, on scaffolding or cranes at heights of 30 or more feet, and in close quarters such as manholes, crawl spaces, and interstitial spaces. They are occasionally exposed to the possibility of injury from falling, electrical shock, bums. and rotary devices such as electrical motors. They are frequently exposed to the possibility of cuts and bruises. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Electric DrawingsElectrical EquipmentTechnical PracticesTechnical Practices (Electrical Electronic)Troubleshooting (Electrical)Use and Maintain Hand Tools (Electrical Work)Without more than normal supervision IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. 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. 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). 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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Fresno VA Medical Center 2615 East Clinton Avenue Fresno, CA 93703 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]