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Maintenance Mechanic
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A Building and General Maintenance Technician performs building maintenance and appliance repairs for an apartment complex, housing division, residential center or business, as directed by a property manager.
$50,838 / year median in Maine
+19% projected growth
Job Description
Maintenance Mechanic Department of the Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Maine Coastal Islands Nional Wildlife Refuge Summary Serve as a Maintenance Mechanic, working the Maine Coastal Islands Nional Wildlife Refuge Complex in Rockland, Maine. You will perform a wide range of construction, repair, maintenance, and equipment operion tasks th support refuge facilities, infrastructure, vehicles, and land management needs. You will use a variety of trade skills, tools, bos, and heavy equipment to keep refuge buildings, systems, and grounds safe, functional, and well-maintained. Learn more about this agency Summary Serve as a Maintenance Mechanic, working the Maine Coastal Islands Nional Wildlife Refuge Complex in Rockland, Maine. You will perform a wide range of construction, repair, maintenance, and equipment operion tasks th support refuge facilities, infrastructure, vehicles, and land management needs. You will use a variety of trade skills, tools, bos, and heavy equipment to keep refuge buildings, systems, and grounds safe, functional, and well-maintained. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Rockland, ME No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—This position is suitable for telework only during and emergency or nural disasters. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $27.82
- $32.46 per hour First time hires to the federal government typically start the beginning salary in the range for their respective grade level. Pay scale & grade WG 9 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
- You required to travel between facilities to help with projects.
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Control number 881135700 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency This announcement is open to United Stes Citizens; U.S. Nionals; and Career transition eligibles (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL). Videos Duties Help The major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following. You must include in your resume th you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform these duties. Opere wercraft and be required to possess knowledge and skills needed to safely opere wercraft; have familiarity with ste-of-the-art wercraft safety equipment and other gear; and adeque grasp of motorbo handling techniques and knowledge to safely opere a motorbo. Maintain and repair buildings and facilities by completing electrical fixes, carpentry projects, plumbing work, heing and cooling system repairs, welding tasks, painting, and structural improvements using common tools, merials, and drawings or blueprints. Service and repair vehicles, heavy equipment, and machines by diagnosing issues, replacing worn parts, conducting tune-ups, and performing routine preventive maintenance on diesel, gasoline, and small engines. Opere heavy equipment and motor vehicles such as bulldozers, excavors, tractors, trucks, and trailers to complete land management, earthwork, road work, hauling needs, and vegetion control while following safety rules and legal requirements. Lead safe work practices by training others, demonstring proper operion of tools and equipment, keeping detailed maintenance and equipment records, and ensuring projects are completed safely and efficiently. Support land, habit, and facility operions by performing general maintenance tasks, managing wer control structures, repairing fences and signs, assisting with habit restorion, applying herbicides or insecticides when certified, and opering bos or off-road vehicles as needed. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participion required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more, www.dhs.gov/EVerify/ . Must possess and maintain a valid Ste driver's license prior to opering Government-owned vehicles. Must have and maintain a valid Ste Commercial Driver's License (CDL) or obtain one year of appointment; positions requiring a CDL are subject to Department of Transportion physical exam and drug and alcohol testing requirements. Pre-employment and random alcohol and drug testing are required. You will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive test is received. Must wear the official Service uniform and comply with uniform policy requirements; a uniform allowance is provided. Must maintain certificions for all equipment opered, including heavy equipment, specialized machinery, and wercraft when required. May be required to obtain and maintain a Pesticide Applicor's License depending on assigned duties. You assigned to opere wercraft. You are required to obtain, by completing the Department's Motorbo Operor Certificion Course, and maintain a Motorbo Operor Certificion Course (MOCC). May serve in colleral duty roles such as wildfire suppression or prescribed burning and must meet physical readiness requirements if assigned these duties. You may be required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with purchase authority. You must be least 18 years of age or older to opere government vehicles.- Additional Requirements loced under Additional Informion
- Qualificions All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement-09/02/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement.
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factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further considerion. In preparing your applicion, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had th 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. Your resume must support your response to the assessment questionnaire, and if it does not, your applicion marked as not eligible. The qualificions 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-reled factors. You must meet least 2 points on the screen-out element(s) and obtain an average of least 2 points on all of the job elements to be considered qualified for this position.Volunteer Experience:
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion There is no substitution of educion for experience for Federal Wage System (FWS) positions. Additional informion Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organizion goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest.Physical Demands:
Considerable physical effort is required to opere and maintain facilities, equipment, and tachments. Work involves confined or eleved spaces, rough surfaces, and awkward or strained positions. Duties require extensive standing, climbing ladders or scaffolding, bending, stooping, kneeling, and working in tiring, cramped areas. Occasional unassisted lifting of 50-100 pounds is required using proper procedures.Working Conditions:
Work occurs in an office (5%) and outdoors (95%), in all weher conditions. Outdoor work involves running wer, fumes, dust, grease, dirt, ladders, scaffolding, electricity, and moving equipment parts. Terrain is steep, uneven, rocky, and slippery, with frequent temperure extremes. Exposure includes energized circuits, shocks, burns, rotary devices, chemicals, cuts, and abrasions. Risks include bites, scrapes, bruises, falls, falling merial, and injury from power equipment or hazardous merials. Strict safety compliance and use of PPE; protective clothing, hardhs, hearing protection, eye protection, gloves, steel-toe boots, respirors, and reled gear is required. Serious injury may result from opering equipment or working near public roads. All Department of Interior (DOI) employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, https://www.doi.gov/ethics/ethics-prohibitions . Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. A review of your resume and supporting documention made and compared against your responses to the Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Assessment Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documention, you red 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score adjusted accordingly. If a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions or experience, you can lose considerion for this position. Your resume must not exceed 2 pages. Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section used to determine your qualificions/eligibility and for ring purposes. In the event you submit more than one resume, only the lest submission reviewed. Candides red and ranked using Cegory Ring procedures. These procedures place candides with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each cegory. Veterans with a service-connected disability of least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality cegory. Under Cegory Ring, candides red and ranked into the following cegories: Best Qualified- applicants possessing experience th substantially exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position Well Qualified
- applicants possessing experience th exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job Qualified
- applicants possessing experience th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
Federal Resume:
https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete Required Assessment . Documention th you meet Selective Factors (if applicable) Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable. Veterans must submit a copy of your lest Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Parent or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran, you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15. You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.va.gov/records/ or call 1-800-827-1000. If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge, you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active-duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center- Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials
- you must remove your image from all documents.
Federal Resume:
https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete Required Assessment . Documention th you meet Selective Factors (if applicable) Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable. Veterans must submit a copy of your lest Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Parent or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran, you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15. You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.va.gov/records/ or call 1-800-827-1000. If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge, you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active-duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center- Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials
- you must remove your image from all documents.
- $32.46 per hour First time hires to the federal government typically start the beginning salary in the range for their respective grade level. Pay scale & grade WG 9 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
- You required to travel between facilities to help with projects.