This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs Department of Veterans Affairs(VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Network (VISN 6), VA Medical Center Salem, VA in the Healthcare Technology Management Department in Facility Manaagement Service. The primary duty of the employee is to perform repairs and preventative maintenance on technical and complex medical gas equipment and associated devices.

Duties

The employee duties include the inspection, installationk troubleshooting, testing, cailbrating, adjusting, modification, and dismantling of equipment; replacing parts, configuring elements to restore the equipment intergrity, refurbishing, and making major reparis of a wide variety of complex medical gas equipment and associated devices and systems. These systems inclde medical gases (nitrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen and Waste Anesthesia Gas Disposal (WAGD); medical, lab and dental air compressors and medical/surgical and dental vaccum pumps; bulk oxygen generators, and all buld manifold feeds to the gas systems. Employee work independently with very little supervision while examing equipment malfunctions through the proper use of modern complex test equipment. Identifying and diagnosing equipment failures to the system, module and component level, and being able to maintain critical patient life support systems such as; fixed and semi-fixed medical gas air compressors, medical.surgical vacuum pumps, dental air compressors and dental vacuum pumps and unique filter. This position acts as technical advisor for matters that involve outside vendors performing repairs or contract work on in-house medical gas equipment. Employee makes recommendations to survey unserviceable medical gas equipment. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday (7:45am - 4:30pm) Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The employee is required to be able to lift at least 40 pounds. The employee is on their feet at least 50% of the time and may be required, due to making trouble calls and inspections, to walk approximately 3 miles per day. Climbing on ladders and scaffolds is commonplace and contributes to the arduous nature of the job. In other situations, there maybe special requirements for agility or dexterity such as exceptional hand.eye coordination. Trips to satellite outpatient clinics are sometimes necessary and will involve transportation via station vehicle. Most places where the employee works are heated or air-conditioned. There is a hazard of electrical shock, burns and various forms of dirt and debris while working on complex technical medical equipment. There is an additional hazard, while working in clinics, wards, laboratories, isolation areas, etc, of exposure to bacterial germs, caustic mateials and contamination both known and unknown. Work requires use of personal protective, equipment such as, but not limited to, half/full face respirators, air pack, dusk masks, safety glasses, and shoes appropriate to the work. Discomfort may be experienced whil wearing protective equipment 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: Attention to DetailIndustrial Equipment OperationMechanicsPlanning and EvaluatingPlumbing and PipefittingWithout 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 Salem VA Medical Center 1970 Roanoke Boulevard Salem, VA 24153 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]