MOBILE EQUIPMENT METAL WORKER - TITLE 32

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***THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.*** This position is for a MOBILE EQUIPMENT METAL WORKER, Position Description Number D1216000 located in the CSMS - SOUTH Facility, at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Army National Guard Membership.

Area of Consideration: Open only to current members of the Georgia Army National Guard.

Each applicant must fully substantiate (in her/his own words) that they meet the requirements of the specialized experience listed below; otherwise, the applicant will be considered unqualified for this vacancy.

DO NOT COPY THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION. IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THE VACANCY.

Please ensure that you have included beginning and ending dates (month and year) for all jobs listed on your resume. Military Ranks: E1-E8.

Compatible Military Assignments: ECMF: 12, 91 EMOS: 92S General Experience: Candidate must possess experience or training which has provided a knowledge of mobile body construction; and the skill to remove, fabricate, reshape, and replace or repair such damage as, dents, tears, wrinkles, cuts and creases by cutting, knocking out, welding, filling and sanding.

Specialized Experience: Candidate must possess 18 months specialized experience or training which has provided knowledge of mobile equipment construction and how all components and parts are installed and determine the total extent of damage and repair alternatives; experience in the use of gas, arc, and welding equipment to cut out damaged or deteriorated areas, remove rusted nuts and bolts, strengthen brackets and braces, weld simple cuts and breaks, and apply heat to bend, reshape damaged areas; experience in the use of trade equipment; experience applying body filler to build up depressed areas, and the skill to smooth by grinding and sanding, until the contour is uniform with the adjoining areas; experience applying primers paint with brush or spray gun, gravity feed and HVLP (high volume low pressure) equipment; experience in mathematical calculations and scribe patterns in the fabrication of wood or metal parts having straight lines or irregular curves.

Physical Effort: Performs frequent lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, and handling of objects weighing up to 40 pounds, and occasionally involving heavier objects.

Requires prolonged standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, and climbing. Frequently reaches in hard-to-get-at places and works in tiring and uncomfortable positions.

Working Conditions: Work is usually performed on concrete floors in shop areas around machinery. Exposed to dirt, dust, grease, odors, smoke, gases, and high noise levels.

Sanding, grinding, or welding duties require the wearing of goggles, respirator, welding mask, apron, or gloves.

Exposed to possible burns, eye injury from infrared and ultra violet rays, and cuts, bruises, abrasions, and electric shock. Major Duties:

As a Mobile Equipment Metal Worker, WG-3809-09, you will: Disassemble damaged mobile equipment bodies and components to determine nature and extent of damage and required repairs.

Perform repair work on damaged equipment components such as fenders, panels, hoods, cowls, truck beds and associated parts such as brackets, covers, clamps, and braces.

Repair bodies by mending, replacing, or fabricating with sheet metals.

On occasion, repair damaged main frames and structural components such as doorposts, doorframes, skeletal framework, and main support members.

Fabricate, assemble, and install a variety of components made of sheet metal for buses, trailers, shelters, and other equipment.

Lay out and cut materials allowing for seams, joints, laps, and shrinkage. Bend and form metal parts into desired shapes with hand and power tools and equipment.

Use equipment such as shears, brakes, folders, formers, crimping, burring, and bending machines. Assemble and fasten fabricated parts by installing bolts, rivets, screws, soldering, and welding.

Repair folds, wrinkles, creases, and large tears in fenders, doors, and roofs using hammers, dolly blocks, spoons, bending irons, mallets, sanders, grinders, files and hydraulic jacks.

Prepare surfaces for painting by filling and sanding. Remove and replace damaged fenders, quarter panels, and top panels by cutting and welding with oxyacetylene and electric arc welding equipment.

Shrink and stretch sheet metal to obtain desired shape and fit. Remove and replace body trim, hardware, windshields, door glass, headliners, and other body components.

Repair radiators, fuel tanks, and similar items by straightening, soldering, patching, tube rodding and splicing, plugging core sections, replacing cores and pressure testing for leaks.

Remove, disassemble, reassemble, and install radiators, fuel tanks and similar items.

Occasionally perform electrical repair work such as removing, splicing, insulating, soldering, and replacing cut or defective wiring on mobile equipment. Perform other duties as assigned.