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Equipment Maintenance Shop Supervisor
Open Period: 6/27/24 to 7/18/24 Series and Grade: WS 5801 10 Salary: $43.62 - $50.88 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook or Staten Island Unit. Final location will be negotiable after selection. Who Can Apply: Current and former Federal employees with status, or who are reinstatement eligible; veterans eligible under the VEOA authority, or who are 30% or more disabled; applicants eligible under special appointing authorities such as individuals with targeted disabilities, certain military spouses, former Peace Corps and Vista Volunteers, etc. More information can be found in the announcement. Job Description:
Determine resource requirements, materials, number of employees and the types of skill necessary to accomplish work schedules that include Preventative and Correct Maintenance needs.
Provide information and advice to higher level supervisors, management officials, and staff organizations on feasibility of work assignments, budget estimates, and workload data to assist in developing or reviewing proposed long-range schedules and work requirements.
Assign and explain work requirements and operating instructions to subordinates and set deadlines and establish the sequence of work operations to be followed.
Evaluate work operations and review completed work and inspection reports to assure that standards are met.
Utilize FBMS Fleet Module to generate work orders to correctly allocate charges.
Approve leave for direct reports, initiate personnel actions, and conduct annual performance appraisals.
Maintenance Mechanic Open Period: 7/11/24 to 7/24/24 Series and Grade: WG 4749 10 Salary: $33.54 - $39.18 per hour Location(s): Staten Island Units Who Can Apply: All current or former career/career-conditional federal employees with competitive/reinstatement eligibility; Eligible applicants under: Veterans' Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA); CTAP/ICTAP within the local commuting area; Special Hiring Authorities; Current or former time-limited employees under PL-114-47, Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA); Public Land Corps (PLC) members. More details can be found on the job announcement. Job Description:
Experience must be demonstrated in at least two of the following trades:
Masonry: Independently plan and layout masonry work. Maintain, construct, repair, and alter masonry structures.
Electrical: Performs all preventative maintenance, operational checks, repair, layout, installation, troubleshooting, tracing, locating defects, modification on and new and existing secondary electrical systems from transformers to final connections park wide.
Plumbing: Installs, modifies, and repairs new and existing utility, supply, and disposal systems and equipment such as sewage, water, oil, and gas distribution systems and water closets, tubs, fire sprinkler systems, and showers, and lay out of such things as angles, arcs, and circles
Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic: Provides support in the areas of operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of the large and complex systems utilized for air conditioning and heating various historic and non-historic buildings.
Utilities Systems Repair-Operator: Work independently to troubleshoot, repair, modify, overhaul, test, calibrate and install a variety of multi-component industrial and precision instruments and equipment.
Engineering Equipment Operator Serves as a primary equipment operator. Operates one or more types of gasoline/diesel powered wheeled or crawler-type engineering and construction equipment with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of 72,000 pounds to push, pull, move, transport, or load earth, gravel, sand, supplies, materials, equipment and refuse.
Laborer
Open Period: 2/12/24 to 8/12/24 Series and Grade: WG 3502 3 Salary: $21.57 - $25.18 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay andSandy Hook Units Who Can Apply: The public Job Description:
Operate heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand tools (such as shovels, rakes, lawn edging equipment, etc,;) to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, and trails, etc.
Load and unload supplies and material from trucks, trailers, dollie, etc.
Move furniture, remove and set signs, paint picnic tables and signs, rake and water lawns, trim trees and shrubs, pick up litter, and clean fire pits.
Dig ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads.
Move heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; utilize heavy type power mowers including adjusting, cleaning, and oiling blades.
This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.
Seasonal Laborer (MVO)
Open Period: 1/29/24 to 7/29/24 Series and Grade: WG 3502 4 Salary: $24.14 - $27 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units Who Can Apply: The public Job Description:
Operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, brush cutters, brush chippers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand and light power tools (such as shovels, pulaskis, picks, digging bars, rakes, lawn edging equipment, electric drills, etc.), to maintain buildings,
grounds, roads, trails, etc.
Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes and sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, cleans and repairs fire pits.
Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads
Operates and performs minor operator maintenance on light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, carryalls, sedans, crew cab pickup trucks, which typically have an approximate gross vehicle weight of up to 4500 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules and standard routes to transport personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools throughout the park under limited traffic conditions at low speeds.
Performs janitorial duties for buildings and grounds when required
This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.
Motor Vehicle Operator Open Period: 1/15/24 to 7/15/24 Series and Grade: WG 5703 5 Salary: $24.66 - $28.79 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:
Operates and performs operator maintenance on one of more motor vehicles. Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules over public roads (or the equivalent) at highway speeds to transport, personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools or to tow equipment throughout rural or urban areas (various kinds of traffic) and varying weather conditions.
Loads cargo onto the vehicle, using appropriate tie-downs such as chains, binders, or straps for transit on public roads at highway speeds or under similar driving circumstances.
Safely transports passengers or cargo to their destinations throughout rural or urban areas on park and/or public roads in a full range of traffic conditions (or the equivalent).
Makes couplings between vehicle and towed equipment.
Completes daily work and/or trip reports required.
Performs routine custodial and laborer duties, including cleaning restrooms and other campground or visitor facilities, collects trash, makes minor repairs as needed.
May be assigned to assist journeyman performing a variety of other duties such as painting, plumbing, carpentry, and electrical; assisting higher grade worker with maintenance of utility systems, including sewer and electrical distribution; trails and grounds work; and asphalt work and road maintenance by repairing pavement surfaces; painting/repairing refuse containers/dumpsters.
This is a temporary position, and will last approximately six months.
