Maintenance Helper

**Duties**:

- This is a training or worker position and may be tailored to fit any of the occupational trades.
- Serves as assistant to a higher-grade maintenance worker/mechanic in maintaining all equipment and facilities in optimum operating condition. Assists in the performance of one or more trade practices associated with occupations such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning, painting, and other related trades.

Such assignments may include but not limited to:

- Assists maintenance workers in performing general maintenance, repair and/or alterations to such items as: doors, floors, floor covering, walls, ceiling, windows, electrical switches, receptacles and light fixtures, commodes, wash basins and showers.
- Assists in performing repair of recreation/mess equipment and appliances and other related maintenance and/or custodial duties.
- Assists in the performance of simple plumbing repairs, replacing faucets or washers; repairing toilet flushing devices; clearing clogged drains, and tightening leaking pipe joints.
- Assists in the performance of light maintenance on air conditioning units and intermediate maintenance on equipment in the facility.
- May assist in the performance of minor electrical repairs to switches and boxes, and replace electric lights, fuses and fixtures.
- Drives motor vehicles to and from work sites, warehouses, and dumps.
- Maintains maintenance shop in a safe and clean condition.
- Observes environmental, safety, security and housekeeping rules and regulations.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Satisfactorily complete all background checks to include National Agency Check with Written Inquiries (NACI).
- Incumbent must be able to work varied work schedules to include evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Requires prolonged standing; stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
- Lifts, carries, and sets up materials and equipment weighing up to 10 pounds. Occasionally may handle materials and equipment weighing 40 pounds and over.
- Work is performed both inside and outside, and is exposed to dirt, paint vapors and fumes, possible electric shock, scrapes, burns and cuts.

**Qualifications**:
**Resumes must include information which demonstrates experience and knowledge, skills, and ability (KSAs) as they relate to this position. Applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing their experience level and KSAs.**
- Basic knowledge of trade practices sufficient to complete simple tasks using common skills.
- Familiarity with safe use of common hand and powered tools.
- Possession of, or ability to obtain a valid state driver's license.

**Education**:

- Foreign education must include evidence that it is comparable to education received at accredited educational institutions in the United States.
- Transcripts from foreign colleges must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency in order to be considered. Applicants are responsible to obtain and submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency, which is a private U.S. organization. Credential evaluations are not free and applicants are responsible for the cost of the selected service.
- All substitutions of education for experience will be made in accordance with OPM approved qualification standards.
- To receive consideration for a non-related degree or eligibility based on a combination of education AND experience, a college transcript is required.
- All transcripts MUST show student's name and the name of the awarding university or educational institution, degree type, awarded/conferred date, and the field of study.- If your degree has not been awarded/conferred, you must provide a copy of your HS Diploma or equivalent along with transcript(s).
- Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience.

**Additional information**:
NAF - All benefits offered (medical, dental, life insurance, spouse & dependent life insurance, long-term disability, retirement, and 401(k) savings plan).

To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing