Job opening: Boiler Plant Equipment Mechanic
Salary: $30 - 35 per hour
Published at: Dec 03 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
Installs, modifies, overhauls, repairs and maintains a variety of complex heating boilers and/or heating systems, single and multiple fuel power boilers and associated auxiliary and pollution control equipment.
Troubleshoots boilers, heating systems, and multi-fuel boilers and furnaces.
Diagnoses issues by visual and audible examination of equipment.
Collects water samples and tests feed water, boiler water and condensate.
Performs work on regulating valves, solenoid valves, and hand valves.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Tour of Duty: 1st Shift
- Security Requirements: Non-Sensitive
- Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt
- Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
- Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- Bargaining Unit Status: Yes
Qualifications
To qualify for a Boiler Plant Equipment Mechanic, your resume and supporting documentation must support:
Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying. Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job. Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition.
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.
Physical Effort: Employee frequently works from stands and other hard-to-reach places. Must stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb, stretch, and work in awkward and cramped positions when welding in hard-to-reach or confined spaces. Frequently handles objects weighing up to 40 pounds and over 40 pounds with assistance.
Working Conditions: Employee works both inside and outside, sometimes in bad weather and in areas that are noisy, dirty, greasy, and smokey. Is exposed to fumes, heat, flying sparks, the glare of torches, and heated materials; possibility of eye Injury, electric shock, broken bones, and the chance of cuts when working with sharp objects. There may be discomfort when wearing protective clothing, safety shoes, gloves, and flash shield or eye goggles, and other equipment as required.
Contacts
- Address DLA Installation Support
8725 John Kingman rd
Ft Belvoir, VA 22060
US
- Name: DLA Installation Support POC
- Phone: 614-692-0877
- Email: [email protected]
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