Job opening: Maintenance Mechanic
Salary: $26 - 30 per hour
Published at: Jul 31 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, in the Facility Management Division.
Duties
Performs routine maintenance, modifications, preventive maintenance, and adjustments on exterior structures, buildings, equipment, related utilities, and grounds, requiring the use of a variety of trade practices associated with occupations of carpentry, masonry, plumbing, electrical, cement work, painting, roofing, and other related trades.
Utilizes a variety of materials, tools, and equipment associated with the repair and maintenance of structures and grounds.
May perform janitorial duties, cleaning and stocking restrooms, vault toilets, visitor centers and park offices as determined by staffing levels. May pick up litter in parking areas, trail heads, and along park roads.
Area Information:
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in western Texas, 55 miles from Carlsbad, NM and 110 miles from El Paso, Texas. This is a remote park with the nearest community of Dell City (pop. 500), which has bus service for school grades K-12. The area has a semi-arid climate with warm summers, mild winters, abundant sunshine, low relative humidity and approximately 21 inches of rainfall per year. Grocery and department stores, hospitals, doctors, churches of most denominations, banks, motels, restaurants, and recreational facilities are found in Carlsbad, NM and in El Paso, TX.
Recreation opportunities are plentiful with Carlsbad Caverns National Park located 2 miles from the city of Carlsbad, two state parks (Brantley Lake and Living Desert Zoo) and the Lincoln National Forest within an hour's drive. El Paso provides an abundance of recreation and cultural opportunities.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors:
Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation Repair, etc.
Knowledge of materials
Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
Use of Measuring Instruments
If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors.
Volunteer Experience: 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
There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.
Contacts
- Address Guadalupe Mountains National Park
400 Pine Canyon
Salt Flat, TX 79847
US
- Name: Cori Stonebridge
- Email: cori_stonebridge@nps.gov
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