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Posted: December 29, 2025 (16 days ago)

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TITLE 32 SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC (MI SMO - FMS 2)

Army National Guard Units

Department of the Army

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Job Description

Summary

This job involves troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining a wide range of military vehicles and heavy equipment, such as tanks, bulldozers, and tactical trucks, in a National Guard facility.

Workers diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic issues, perform overhauls, and sometimes improvise fixes without standard instructions.

It's a great fit for experienced mechanics with military background who enjoy hands-on technical work and leading junior team members.

Key Requirements

  • Military membership in the Army National Guard (grades E1-E8)
  • Extensive experience diagnosing, repairing, and overhauling complex vehicle systems including engines, transmissions, and hydraulics
  • Knowledge of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems in combat and tactical vehicles
  • Ability to use diagnostic tools like engine analyzers, voltmeters, pressure gauges, and computer diagnostics
  • Skills in improvising repairs, modifying parts, and providing technical guidance to lower-grade employees
  • Experience with heavy-duty equipment such as tanks, self-propelled artillery, bulldozers, and forklifts

Full Job Description

THIS IS AN ARMY NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This National Guard position is for a TITLE 32 SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC (MI SMO - FMS 2), Position Description Number NGD1195000 and is part of the MI FMS 2, Michigan Army National Guard.

In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed below.

Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained.

This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

Military Grades: E1-E8 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 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 IS A TITLE 32 NATIONAL GUARD POSITION THAT REQUIRES MILITARY MEMBERSHIP*** This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4), Surface Maintenance Facility.

The purpose of this position is to troubleshoot, repair, maintain, inspect, and/or overhaul a variety of complex combat, tactical, commercial, and special purpose vehicles and equipment having complicated mechanical and non-mechanical systems with a variety of interconnected systems.

Provides technical guidance and specialized team leadership to lower grade employees.

Performs maintenance, troubleshooting, and major repair on heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical, and automotive vehicles.

This may include self-propelled artillery, tracked cargo and personnel carriers, road graders, mobile cranes, front loaders, bulldozers, power shovels, tanks, tracked combat vehicles, all terrain vehicles, semi trailers, forklifts, tractors, and accessory equipment.

Troubleshoots, repairs and/or overhauls, as a regular and recurring duty, a variety of the mechanically complex major systems to include internal combustion engines, turbine engines, automatic and non-automatic transmissions, heavy duty drive line systems, and hydraulic utility systems and controls, cross drive or similar multi-system transmissions and a variety of intricate fuel injection systems.

Troubleshoots equipment with a variety of the mechanically complex major systems and diagnoses difficult performance problems and the cause of mechanical failures by means of visual and auditory checks, uses test equipment such as engine analyzers, compression testers, voltmeters, ohmmeters, pressure gauges and computer diagnostic tools.

Utilizes embedded diagnostics in equipment and a wide variety of specialized original equipment manufacturer system analyzers in order to determine the exact nature or extent of repair.

Determines what adjustments may be necessary to complete work orders, and whether any additional repairs other than those specified or indicated on the work order are necessary.

Removes and disassembles engines and complex major assemblies, sub-assemblies, components, and fuel, hydraulic, and oil pressure systems.

Makes the appropriate repairs, overhaul, or modifications in accordance with the proper repair specifications and procedures, and improvises repair techniques when standard procedures are not available.

Independently performs repairs and maintenance functions with little or no supervision in remote locations.

Provides technical guidance and specialized team leadership to lower grade employees within the team.

Conducts readiness and repair inspections on vehicles and associated equipment supported by the activity.

Performs operational inspections and ensures vehicles and equipment are properly serviced, including brake adjustments, replacing hydraulic fluids, greasing, cleaning, etc., and performs other preventive maintenance operations as required.

Performs electrical repairs on complex state of the art electrical and electronic systems requiring extensive training on specialized diagnostic equipment to identify problems.

Assists in the maintenance of production reports and records, and makes recommendations to the supervisor. Plans, organizes, and performs technical analyses as required or assigned.

Makes recommendations to the supervisor as to adjustments necessary to effectively, efficiently and economically accomplish the work and maximize production.

The above duty description doesn't contain all details of the official position description.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 12/29/2025 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 12/30/2025

Source: USAJOBS | ID: MI-12857394-AR-26-027