SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC INSPECTOR
Army National Guard Units
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SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC
Army National Guard Units
Department of the Army
Location
Latham, New York
Salary
$32.14 - $37.62
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves maintaining, repairing, and troubleshooting a range of military and commercial vehicles and equipment at a National Guard facility in New York.
Workers diagnose issues, fix mechanical systems, and perform inspections to keep combat and tactical vehicles operational.
It's a good fit for hands-on mechanics with military experience who enjoy working on engines, hydraulics, and electronics in a team setting.
Key Requirements
- 18 months of specialized experience in diagnosing, repairing, and overhauling combat, tactical, commercial, and special purpose vehicles
- Knowledge of mechanical systems, including engines, transmissions, and drive lines
- Understanding of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
- Ability to repair or replace components like sensors, diodes, circuit boards, and fuel injection systems
- Experience with hydraulic lifting, loading, and positioning systems
- Basic electronics knowledge for identifying and fixing defective parts
- Enlisted military grade in the National Guard
Full Job Description
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC, Position Description Number D1194000 and is part of the LOGISTICS, National Guard.
This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.
Military Grades: Enlisted GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience or training which demonstrates knowledge of equipment to be able to do routine jobs, simple preventative maintenance tasks, and can use common tools and equipment in the line of work.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 18 months experience or training leading to a thorough knowledge of the mechanical makeup, operation, and working relationships of complex systems, assemblies, and parts for a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
Ability to diagnose, repair, overhaul, and modify a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
Knowledge of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and other non-mechanical systems that have a functional relationship and effect on the operation of mechanical systems.
Knowledge of hydraulic lifting, loading, turning, and positioning systems and their mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and electronic controls.
Basic knowledge of electronics, sufficient to identify and replace defective components, such as sensors, diodes, and circuit boards.
Ability to repair or overhaul major components such as diesel, multi-fuel or gasoline engines, turbine engines, automatic and manual transmissions, drive line assemblies, electrical and electronic systems and accessories, fuel injection systems, and emission control systems.
Major Duties:
This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4), Surface Maintenance Facility.
The purpose of this position is to perform maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, inspection, and/or overhaul of a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, and special purpose vehicles and equipment.
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