This position is located in the Water Program, Engineering Section of the Facilities Management Service (FMS) at the Pittsburgh VA Medical Center.

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Performs routine maintenance and repair of mechanical components associated with the public water system; Assists the water treatment operators by performing routine and moderately complex preventive maintenance tasks; Performs daily calibration of pH meters (measuring acidity and alkalinity), colorimeters, and other water quality testing equipment; Conducts testing of potable water for parameters such as pH, free chlorine concentrations, mixed and hot water bypass temperatures; Manipulates water fixture bypass valves to adjust temperatures and test hot water; Performs preventive maintenance on water monitoring equipment such as changing reagents and associated plumbing and tubing; Uses common plumbing tools and perform basic installation and removal of minor plumbing components such as inline filters, push to connect fittings, and shower heads as well as cartridge valves in sink fixtures; and Performs other duties as assigned Work Schedule: Sunday - Thursday; 6:00am - 2:30pm OR Monday - Friday; 6:00am - 2:30pm, OR Tuesday - Saturday 6:00am - 2:30pm, OR Wednesday - Sunday 6:00am-2:30pm (Shift to be determined at time of selection) Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The duties require considerable movement around the hospital and involve bending, lifting, work from ladders, both in and outside the building, and crawling through restrictive areas. The incumbent must occasionally lift equipment or materials weighing fifty pounds or more with proper equipment. Assignments may require him/her to stand, stoop, kneel, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Work requires standing, stooping, kneeling, crawling, often in hard to reach places. Incumbent frequently handles, lifts, carries equipment that weigh up to 40 pounds. He/she is standing or walking much of the time and must be in good overall physical condition. Physical capability to regularly walk long distances, dexterity and accurate eye hand coordination, and corrected 20/20 vision and accurate color perception are required. The incumbent is exposed to extremes of heat and cold, dust, dirt, noise, grease, bad smelling fumes, and moisture, as well as outside the normal indoor environment of the hospital. The incumbent frequently works in areas which are extremely hot, cold or unventilated, and possible permitted and non-permitted confined spaces with appropriate training. The work environment may include crawl spaces and interstitial spaces. He/she may occasionally be exposed to disease, bad weather, possible electric shock, fall hazards, hand or power tools, and danger from flying splinters and chips, respiratory ailments. He/she may have frequent exposure to the possibility of scrapes, burns, infections, 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: Dexterity and SafetyEquipment Assembly, Installation, RepairInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)Measuring InstrumentsOperation of Equipment/MachineryWithout 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 Pittsburgh VA Medical Center 1010 Delafield Road Pittsburgh, PA 15215 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]