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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

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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.
You may be away from home 2-3 days a time and up to a week some times. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 4749 Maintenance Mechanic Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
CBYO-26-13039476-DE-BLO
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.
To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-reled factors: Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision (SCREEN OUT) Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion Repair, etc. Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic) Use of Measuring Instruments Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading) Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Knowledge of Merials If your knowledge and ability in the
SCREEN OUT
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.
You evalued on the following competencies and/or job elements: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT) Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading) Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion Repair, etc. Knowledge of merials Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic) Use of Measuring Instruments Current or former displaced Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified, score least 85 (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including any selective placement factors; educion, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Providing false or misleading informion on your resume or supporting documention may result in removal from considerion or other action consistent with applicable federal hiring regulions. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inapproprie language or informion in their applicion package ineligible for further considerion for this position. 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. Required documents Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2026: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed. If military or civilian, please include your rank and/or grade. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the qualificion requirements. More informion on how to write a
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.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 09/02/2026 to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13039476 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus , : https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. Agency contact informion Becky Olson Phone 218-853-5937 becky_olson@ios.doi.gov Address Division of Human Resources Division of Human Resources 300 Westge Center Drive Hadley, MA 01035 US Next steps You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2026: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed. If military or civilian, please include your rank and/or grade. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the qualificion requirements. More informion on how to write a
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.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 09/02/2026 to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13039476 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus , : https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Becky Olson Phone 218-853-5937 becky_olson@ios.doi.gov Address Division of Human Resources Division of Human Resources 300 Westge Center Drive Hadley, MA 01035 US Next steps You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request 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 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.
You may be away from home 2-3 days a time and up to a week some times. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
CBYO-26-13039476-DE-BLO
Control number 881135700