This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Competitive Service Positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Ice Harbor Project is a multi-purpose hydropower project, with missions including operation and maintenance of the facility for flood control, hydro power generation with six main generating units, navigation locks, fish facility, recreation, and natural resource management.

Duties

Lead, direct, schedule, and/or perform all maintenance and repair of project facilities and equipment. Lead maintenance and repair activities for recreation areas. Plan the use of subordinate workers, equipment, facilities, materials, and tools. Assign work to individuals and provide technical direction and/or help in accomplishing difficult work processes. Inspect completed work for quality and work order requirements. Ensure safe work practices and enforce environmental safety regulations. Inspect facilities to ensure they operate properly and are in good repair. Assign and schedule work to be accomplished by hired labor and/or small construction contract. Prepare requisitions, cost estimates, and justifications to procure equipment and supplies. Coordinate contracted maintenance and repair work. Perform nonsupervisory trades and labor work.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
• This position is subject to a pre-employment screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
• This position has a requirement to lift up to 45 lbs. in the regular performance of duties.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Maintenance Work Leader - without more than normal supervision. Experience leading a work team, able to plan and independently perform tasks in the areas of maintenance, plumbing, carpentry, heavy equipment operation and operating and maintaining pumping plants and irrigation systems, and able to work as part of a crew and to assume responsibility for leading in the accomplishment of tasks. PHYSICAL EFFORT: Works in tiring or in uncomfortable positions for long periods. The work requires frequent standing, bending, crouching, kneeling and climbing. May work on ladder, scaffolds, or platforms and where the parts of systems worked on are in hard to reach places. Frequently lifts and carries tools and equipment weighing up to 45 lbs and occasionally items weighing more with assistance of material lifting devices or other workers. WORKING CONDITIONS: Maintenance work is normally performed outside with exposure to wide variations in weather and temperature. Incumbent is exposed to potential injury form power tools and danger from flying objects, cuts and scrapes, is exposed to traffic hazards while driving on both improved and unimproved road surfaces. May work in cramped quarters and in, over or near water. May occasionally make repairs when noxious fumes are present. There is exposure to insect, spider and snakebites.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications

Contacts

• Address RH-W2SJ03 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-WALLA WALLA DO NOT MAIL Walla Walla, WA 99362 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk