This position is located at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Examine, adjust, replace and repair equipment such as pneumatic and electrical thermostats, regulators, switches, fuel cutoff devices, burners, fuel feed and flame safeguard controls, bearings, and drive gears. Maintain burners, burner nozzles, and orifice assemblies, and dismantle and locate defects and reassemble and reinstall components. Service units by cleaning or replacing filters, strainers, orifices, ignition devices, and other items on energy plant boilers. Maintain, repair, and troubleshoot boilers and their components using specialized test equipment. Perform preventative and scheduled maintenance on plant systems and equipment including boiler feed pumps, fuel oil pumps, air compressors, generators, boiler fixtures, and combustion air fans. Balance, align and maintain pumps, generators, compressors and maintain pre-heaters. Repair or replace flame gauges, controls, relief valves, and ignition devices. Troubleshoot electrical and pneumatic controls. Adjust and perform limited diagnostic checks on electronic control devices to determine sources of malfunctions. Maintain and rework remote heating boilers and perform major overhauls of the entire system including the repair, replacement, and installation of boiler tubes, refractory linings, electronic and electrical controls, and associated components. Work with complex burner management controls and examine electronic and electro-mechanical controls and support equipment for boilers using infrared, ultra-violet, and related testing devices. Other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: M-F (8am - 4:30pm) Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Works in tiring or uncomfortable positions for long periods. The work requires frequent standing, bending, crouching, kneeling, and climbing. The incumbent may occasionally work from scaffolds and platforms and may perform strenuous work while standing, sitting, or lying. The incumbent frequently lifts and carries tools and equipment weighing up to 23 kilograms (50 pounds) and occasionally items weighing more with assistance of materials lifting devices or other workers. The work is usually performed indoors on concrete surfaces where there is exposure to dust, dirt, chemicals, heat, steam, noise, and unpleasant odors. Repairers occasionally service equipment outdoors under adverse weather conditions. They are continually exposed to the potential for burns, electric shocks, cuts, strains, bruises, and chemical irritations. To reduce dangers from these and other similar conditions, they follow prescribed safety practices and use safety equipment such as safety glasses, hart-toe shoes, respirators, hardhats, and fire retardant gloves. 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 SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading)Measuring InstrumentsTechnical PracticesUse and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWithout 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 Las Vegas VA Medical Center 6900 North Pecos Road North Las Vegas, NV 89086 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]