Maintenance Worker (Leader)

Summary

You will serve as the Maintenance Work Leader for the Patient Care Section, providing day-to-day leadership and coordination for a team of 12 maintenance employees, including Locksmiths, Masons, Carpenters, and Painters. You will oversee maintenance activities supporting a complex medical center campus, consisting of 42 buildings encompassing approximately 975,000 square feet and 128.5 acres, ensuring facilities remain safe, functional, and compliant to support patient care operations.

Duties

• The incumbent will serve as the Maintenance Worker Leader for a multidisciplinary maintenance team, providing technical guidance, work assignments, and hands-on support for carpentry, locksmithing, masonry, painting, and facility maintenance operations. Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Furnishes instructions, demonstrates proper workmanship, works with, advises, and order parts, materials, and equipment for the carpentry craft which includes locksmith, glazing, finish, carpentry work, furniture repair and masonry.
• Plans and lays out work assignments, selects appropriate tools and materials, and completes work using established methods and accepted trade practices.
• Assigns staff to perform visual examination of areas of the Medical
• Center by conducting inspections to determine the need for maintenance and repair work on systems, structures and equipment within the area/zone assigned.
• Identifies the types of work required which include installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting and repair of finishes on a wide variety of materials, including ceilings, floors, walls, sidewalk, windows, doors, masonry, locksmithing, carpentry and painting/plastering.
• Identifies, reports and documents deviancies in workmanship, quality of installation and adherence to
• VA standards on overall work operations and problems.
• Builds, modifies, maintains, and repairs buildings and interior structures, including walls, ceilings, partitions, shelving, workbenches, furniture, handrails, wall protection systems, and related fixtures and finishes.
• Performs maintenance, repair, alteration, fabrication, and construction of interior and exterior surfaces, including floors, sidewalks, roads, curbs, manholes, catch basins, and concrete structures.
• Builds and repairs brick, block, stone, and masonry features using a variety of materials.
• Repairs, overhauls, modifies, tests, and installs locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations.
• Repairs stone and brick joints by cleaning, cutting, raking and repainting with mortar and caulking compound.
• Lays blocks or bricks following blueprints, plans, or drawings.
• Performs regular nonsupervisory (i.e., non-leader) work that is usually of the same kind and level as that done by the group led.
• Work Schedule: Monday
• Friday, 7:30 am
• 4:00 pm or 8:00 am
• 4:30 pm Position Description Title/PD#: Maintenance Worker (Leader)/PD542-066290 Physical Requirements: You may be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination as part of the pre-employment process for this position.
• Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of examination.

Requirements

• Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
• In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the
• Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the
• Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Required Documents

• Documents Required: Resume
• Documents Accepted: Cover Letter DD-214/ Statement of Service Disability Letter (VA) Performance Appraisal
• Resume Separation Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application.
• Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50,
• Transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees).You will not be contacted for additional information.
• Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.
• Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply.
• Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
• Applications are accepted online.
• Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.