MAINTENANCE MECHANIC LEADER
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Maintenance Worker Leader
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Edinburg, Texas
Salary
$33.56 - $39.14
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team of maintenance workers at a specialized facility in Texas that handles animal health operations, focusing on keeping equipment, systems, and buildings in good working order.
You'll assign tasks, perform repairs on things like air conditioning, water, and electrical systems, and help manage supplies and schedules.
It's a great fit for someone with hands-on experience in fixing industrial equipment and leading small teams in a practical, problem-solving environment.
Key Requirements
- Experience leading and supervising maintenance workers, including assigning tasks and inspecting work
- Training and hands-on experience in installing, maintaining, and repairing industrial equipment
- Knowledge of operating, troubleshooting, and repairing water supply systems
- Skills in maintaining and repairing air conditioning, ventilation, and HVAC systems
- Experience with electrical systems, lighting, generators, and refrigerators
- Ability to plan and execute projects in carpentry, sheet metal, plastic, and electrical work
- Proficiency in preparing procurement requests and coordinating materials and supplies
Full Job Description
The Maintenance Worker Leader leads a complex maintenance program and assists the supervisor in overseeing subordinate workers, work schedules, equipment, facilities, and materials in the New World Screwworm (NWS) Dispersal Facility (NWSDF).
To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume.
For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience repairing air conditioning systems, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Leads, assigns, organizes, inspects and participates in the work of personnel.
- Installing, providing preventive maintenance and repairing the industrial equipment that are in the Dispersion Operations.
- Operating, maintaining, solving problems and repairing the water supply system.
- Operating, maintaining, solving problems and repairing the air conditioning systems and ventilation of the center.
- Operating, maintaining, solving problems and repairing the electric and lighting system, including the preventive maintenance of the electric generator, and refrigerators.
- Designing requests for materials necessary for the repair and/or maintenance of industrial equipment in Dispersion Operations.
- Coordinating schedules of the assigned staff.
- Prepares procurement requests to obtain materials and equipment, and interacts with industry sources for supplies, services, and emergency call-out.
- Plans and lays out carpentry, sheet metal, plastic, HVAC and electrical projects.
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