Job opening: Utility Systems Repairer Operator
Salary: $32 - 38 per hour
Published at: Nov 27 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is being re-advertised to solicit additional applications. Applicants who applied previously need not reapply unless submitting updated and/or missing information.
This position is located at Kayenta Service Unit, Facilities Management Branch, Kayenta, Arizona. The purpose of this position is to maintain operate and repair major utility system including major equipment repairs and maintain structures that provides services and environment control for Kayenta Health Center.
Duties
Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or result in you losing consideration for the job. This position is located at Kayenta Health Center, Division of Administrative Services, Facility Management Branch, Kayenta, AZ. The incumbent:
Operates and repairs auxiliary equipment including vacuum pumps, fuel oil pumps, gas regulators, air compressors, feed water pumps and regulators, forced draft fans and safety controls. Performs major repairs on each equipment such as installing, connecting and adjusting components including rotors, electrodes, solenoids, switches, thermostats and rheostats.
Performs hydrostatic tests on chilled and heating hot water closed loop systems and places chillers and boilers in service. Recording all information, compared to samples taken and tested by outside consultants.
Operates, maintains and repairs chillers and boilers that supplies cool and heated air to air handling units for air conditioning.
Ventilation/Air Handler: Inspect, cleans, adjust and repair hospital and field clinic ventilation system which is interrelated with air conditioning that carries the status amount of air volume to each part of the hospital through different size ducts that are instilled in attic areas; modifies, fabricates, repair actuators controls.
Operates and maintains 600 KW Emergency Generator; tests generator no load condition once a week, with load once a month; read, record data include line - load amperes; operates voltage and frequency to comply with TJC requirements.
Uses system to: diagnose and correct HVAC problems and failures, command set points and valve actuators, and to acknowledge, clear and reset alarms.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
Although no specific amount of experience, education, or training is required, applicants must meet a minimum level of ability in relation to the position. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Handbook for the WG-4742 series is used as a basis for qualifications. Applicants must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the elements listed in the Section 25 of the Online Occupational Questionnaire to perform the duties of the position.
Utility systems repairer-operators perform various tasks in connection with the repair and operation of utilities for Federal buildings or facilities. The skill and knowledge, responsibility, physical effort, and working condition factors are described in the job grading standards for the kinds and levels of work shown in the following examples.
Examples of experience: Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic, Boiler Plant Worker, Electrical Worker, Air Conditioning Equipment Operator. Performs various checks, tests, adjustments, and troubleshooting tasks to determine the need for and the performance of repair and operation work. Performs minor preventive maintenance on all equipment and test all equipment for effective/efficient use.
Physical Requirements: Make repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, and platforms where the pars of system/equipment worked on are frequently in hard-to-reach places, therefore, stooping, stretching, bending, and kneeling are frequently for longer periods of time. Works in cramped and confined areas such as interior of Air Handling Units and ground mechanical equipment located in the crawl space. Incumbent may frequently lift and carry tools and equipment weighing up to 23 kilogram (50 pounds) and occasionally items weighing more.
Working Conditions: The work is usually performed indoors, where there is exposure to dust, dirt, escaping gases, chemicals, heat, steam, noise, and unpleasant odors. Occasionally, may work outdoors under adverse weather conditions. Incumbent is continually exposed to the potential for burns, electrical shocks, cuts, strains, bruises, and chemical irritations.
In addition to the basic requirements, you must meet the minimum qualifications:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants will be rated on the basis of their responses to the Occupational Questionnaire that you possess the competencies to perform the duties of this position without more than normal supervision, and the information contained in their resume.
Your resume must demonstrate experience to carry out the duties of a Utility Systems Repairer-Operator in independently (under limited supervision) performing inspections, maintenance, troubleshooting, repairing and installing heating/cooling systems and equipment for the following systems: operation of domestic hot water tanks, hydronic steam boilers, steam boilers, HVAC systems, refrigeration units, medical vacuum pumps, chillers, air handlers, medical gas systems, electrical systems, plumbing systems, access control, fire protection systems, electrical generators/emergency generators. Skill to troubleshoot electronic/controls, reads and interprets blueprints and technical manuals in understanding the functions of parts/systems. Maintain operating conditions, makes adjustments, carries out maintenance, and corrects variations in temperatures and pressures, makes minor routine and emergency repairs to various equipment operated
Time In Grade
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP).
You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.
Education
There are no education requirements.
Contacts
- Address Kayenta Service Unit
PO Box 368
Kayenta, AZ 86033
US
- Name: Rhiannon Bailey
- Phone: 9286974342
- Email: [email protected]
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