Small Arms Repairer

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Facilities and the Major Range and Test Facilities Base (MRTFB) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This position is a Term NTE 13 Months position located at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

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) Small Arms Repairer ~ without more than normal supervision.

I can read specifications and blueprints to assemble weapons and locate the cause of improper functioning; conduct simulated operation or test firing; use simple machine tools to alter parts; and disassemble, repair, and replace components on small arms.

I work under close supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed.

Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Physical Effort: Must independently lift and carry all small arms weapons often weighing from 15 to 50 pounds.

Small arms weighing more than 50 pounds will be lifted and handled by two people or with a lifting device. Working Conditions: Works most of the time inside shop area at individual workbench.

Concrete floors normally covered with rubber matting at workbench. Weapons are oily and frequently dirty.

Incumbent is subject to cuts, scrapes, burns, bruises, shocks, mashed fingers and skin irritants.

Occasionally, but rarely works at a firing range working from the back of a truck in the heat or cold exposed to the elements and noises of a firing range.

Occasionally works on-site in a crowded arms room. This position requires the ability to distinguish either basic or shades of colors. Major Duties:

• Overhaul, maintain, and repair various types of small arms aid accessories of regularly and widely used design, and weapons which have unusual operation principles or critical operation tolerances.
• Perform a common initial inspection of small arms to determine repairs needed.
• Modify weapons by replacing old parts with new parts of modified design or making changes such as reaming out a hole or smoothing off rivet heads.
• Perform acceptance, initial, line, and final inspections in the shop and in the field of small arms up to and including: M249, M2, M240B, M4, M16, M107, M203, MK19, and M9.
• Disassemble guns to examine critical parts for wear or damage using micrometers and precision gauges.
• Perform operational checks of repaired weapons, using the appropriate gauges, blank and used ammunition, bore scopes and maintaining and servicing paying attention to operation ability and safe condition, and test fires weapons.