Electrotonic Industrial Controls Mechanic

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: Serve as an Electrical Industrial Controls Mechanic at the Directorate of Public Works in Fort Riley, Kansas.

Who May Apply: US Citizens 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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required.

However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.

Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Electrotonic Industrial Controls Mechanic ~ without more than normal supervision.

This includes repairing, maintaining, and performing preventive maintenance on machinery; applying high degree of knowledge of electronic theory and circuits to include installing, repairing, overhauling, aligning, testing and maintaining equipment and/or machinery and operations testing.

I work under supervision of a journey-level employee who review my work for completion. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

Physical Effort: Employee handles and carries tools, equipment, and test equipment weighing 40 pounds or less and is required to stoop, stretch, bend, kneel, and work in uncomfortable positions to reach parts of the system when modifying and adjusting sensors.

Working Conditions: Work is primarily performed inside but the employee may occasionally be required to work outside and in drafty attic spaces and cramped areas with low overheads or sudden temperature changes during maintenance or troubleshooting UMCS.

Major Duties:

• Performs services on the Utilities Monitoring and Controls System (UMCS) for monitoring and controlling HVAC, fire/life, safety, security, energy, and utility systems in a variety of facilities.
• Conduct scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting tasks such as tightening contacts and connections and replacing fuses, resistors, and analog boards as needed.
• Use a line analyzer to measure voltage settings on analog boards; use a decade box (resistance simulator) to check sensors and calibrate analog boards; and use a digital VOM fluke to adjust voltage within 1/10,0000th of a volt on analog boards.
• Operate hand-held H2T test simulator or laptop computer on Field Processing Units to bypass keyboard controls while in field to adjust or alter set points and use a Field Loading Device 101 or laptop computer to replace software programs.
• Enter facility schematics of system locations which provide a graphic representation for identifying a problem source.
• Use mnemonic codes for calling up field data points and enter values and status elements that establish the parameters or command the UMCS to monitor each field data point.