Job opening: MOBILE EQUIPMENT METAL WORKER
Salary: $26 - 31 per hour
Published at: Oct 31 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION THAT REQUIRES MILITARY MEMBERSHIP.
This National Guard position is for a MOBILE EQUIPMENT METAL WORKER, Position Description Number PDD1216000 and is part of the Mississippi National Guard.
Duties
As a MOBILE EQUIPMENT METAL WORKER, WG-3809-9, you will repair mobile equipment bodies and metal body components in support of maintenance activities. This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4), Surface Maintenance Facility.
(1) Disassembles damaged mobile equipment bodies and components to determine nature and extent of damage and required repairs. Performs repair work on damaged equipment components such as fenders, panels, hoods, cowls, truck beds and associated parts such as brackets, covers, clamps, and braces. Repairs bodies by mending, replacing, or fabricating with sheet metals. On occasion, repairs damaged main frames and structural components such as doorposts, doorframes, skeletal framework, and main support members.
(2) Fabricates, assembles, and installs a variety of components made of sheet metal for buses, trailers, shelters, and other equipment. Lays out and cuts materials allowing for seams, joints, laps, and shrinkage. Bends and forms metal parts into desired shapes with hand and power tools and equipment. Uses equipment such as shears, brakes, folders, formers, crimping, burring, and bending machines. Assembles and fastens fabricated parts by installing bolts, rivets, screws, soldering, and welding. Repairs folds, wrinkles, creases, and large tears in fenders, doors, and roofs using hammers, dolly blocks, spoons, bending irons, mallets, sanders, grinders, files and hydraulic jacks. Prepares surfaces for painting by filling and sanding.
(3) Removes and replaces damaged fenders, quarter panels, and top panels by cutting and welding with oxyacetylene and electric arc welding equipment. Shrinks and stretches sheet metal to obtain desired shape and fit. Removes and replaces body trim, hardware, windshields, door glass, headliners, and other body components.
(4) Repairs radiators, fuel tanks, and similar items by straightening, soldering, patching, tube rodding and splicing, plugging core sections, replacing cores and pressure testing for leaks. Removes, disassembles, reassembles, and installs radiators, fuel tanks and similar items.
(5) Occasionally performs electrical repair work such as removing, splicing, insulating, soldering, and replacing cut or defective wiring on mobile equipment.
(6) Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED: This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the National Guard. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.
MILITARY MEMBERS WITH BONUSES: Upon acceptance of a military technician position military members who are currently receiving a military Reenlistment/Extension Bonus (REB) or GI Bill-SR Kicker may lose incentive eligibility and may be subject to termination or suspension of incentive (includes indefinite and temporary technicians on assignment for more than 180 days in any continuous 12-month period).
GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience or training which has provided a knowledge of mobile body construction; and the skill to remove, fabricate, reshape and replace or repair such damage as, dents, tears, wrinkles, cuts and creases by cutting, knocking out, welding, filling and sanding.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess and document in detail at least 18 months of experience or training which has provided knowledge of mobile equipment construction and how all components and parts are installed and determine the total extent of damage and repair alternatives. Experience in the use of gas, arc, and welding equipment to cut out damaged or deteriorated areas, remove rusted nuts and bolts, strengthen brackets and braces, weld simple cuts and breaks, and apply heat to bend, reshape damaged areas. Experience in the use of trade equipment. Experience applying body filler to build up depressed areas, and the skill to smooth by grinding and sanding, until the contour is uniform with the adjoining areas. Experience applying primers paint with brush or spray gun, gravity feed and HVLP (high volume low pressure) equipment. Experience in mathematical calculations and scribe patterns in the fabrication of wood or metal parts having straight lines or irregular curves.
If your resume does not include a narrative description of how you meet the GENERAL, SPECIALIZED experiences, and OTHER requirements, you may lose consideration for this position. Ensure that the Questionnaire is completed online in Application Manager.
NOTES TO CANDIDATES:
a. Situations of inversion of military rank are not permitted, i.e., a military technician may not be militarily senior to his or her full-time supervisor.
b. Candidates may be screened and evaluated on military attributes directly related to the compatible military position required to be assigned into, such as, but not limited to, military bearing, leadership, or ability to work with others (teamwork) in a military environment.
c. Include any volunteer work experience in your resume. 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).
d. Final selection will be based upon qualifications, suitability, and available manpower resources.
e. This employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
f. Multiple vacancies may be filled from this announcement.
g. If this announcement results in a temporary promotion for the selectee, it may become permanent at any time without further competition dependent on funding and manpower requirements.
Education
No substitution of education for specialized experience.
Contacts
- Address MS CSMS 2
3152 Biddy Road
Grenada, MS 38901-8973
US
- Name: Gary Tillman
- Phone: 662-294-0135
- Email: [email protected]
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