SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC
Army National Guard Units
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SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC INSPECTOR
Army National Guard Units
Department of the Army
Location
Latham, New York
Salary
$33.31 - $39.02
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves inspecting military vehicles and equipment to make sure they meet safety and performance standards, using detailed checks and tests on their mechanical and electrical parts.
It's based at a National Guard facility in New York and focuses on ensuring everything is ready for use.
A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience fixing and maintaining heavy machinery, especially in a military or technical setting, who enjoys problem-solving and working with complex systems.
Key Requirements
- Enlisted military grade in the National Guard
- 18 months of specialized experience in diagnosing, repairing, and overhauling complex vehicle systems
- Extensive knowledge of mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems in combat and tactical vehicles
- Ability to improvise repairs and modifications without technical guidelines
- Skills in inspecting equipment using various processes and techniques to ensure compliance with standards
- Experience with state-of-the-art systems in special purpose vehicles and equipment
- General experience with routine maintenance and common tools
Full Job Description
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC INSPECTOR, Position Description Number D1285000 and is part of the LOGISTICS, National Guard.
This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.
Military Grades: ENLISTED ONLY 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 an extensive knowledge of the mechanical makeup, operation, and working relationships of complex interconnecting systems, assemblies, and parts for a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
Ability to diagnose, repair, overhaul, and modify interconnected complex systems on a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
Extensive knowledge of state of the art electrical, electronic, complex hydraulic, pneumatic, and other major non-mechanical systems that have a functional relationship and effect on the operation of major mechanical systems.
Extensive knowledge of hydraulic lifting, loading, turning, and positioning systems and their mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and electronic controls.
Skill and knowledge to develop or improvise methods, alter parts, and make repairs in the absence of technical guidelines (such as modifying parts to fit and mesh into systems for which the parts were not designed); improvise modifications to equipment to correct recurring malfunctions; and design modifications to meet special test requirements or other special needs.
Major Duties:
This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4), Surface Maintenance Facility.
The purpose of the position is to serve as an inspector of surface maintenance equipment to ensure that physical and operating characteristics are within acceptable standards and specifications.
Duties involve complex inspection work that requires a wide variety of inspection processes and techniques. May assist higher graded inspectors, as required.
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