What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Specialist Electronics Journey 2/Lead (PCN 20-5542) position at State of Alaska?
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What You Will Be Doing:
Working in a hands-on, fast paced environment under the guidance of the Maintenance Foreman, this role helps keep our facilities running smoothly and safely through the following key responsibilities:
- Take the lead on maintaining and repairing a wide range of building systems – from HVAC/DDC controls to lighting, security, communications, and more.
- Team up with electricians to safely install and service electrical components, using lockout/tagout procedures to keep operations smooth and safe.
- Show off your craftmanship with painting, carpentry, and repairs to doors, windows, floors, ceilings, and other interior/exterior features.
- Jump in to support the team whenever needed, whether that’s pitching in on general maintenance or hopping into equipment for seasonal tasks like snow removal.
Our Mission, Values, and Culture:
The mission of the Alaska Department of Corrections is to promote public safety. Our division provides secure confinement, access to reformative programs, and offender management planning that promotes successful community reentry.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
When working for Goose Creek Correctional Center, you’ll be a vital part of a collaborative team, with opportunities for extensive learning about correctional settings and processes. In addition, we offer:
- Flexible work schedules – 4/10 schedules available based on facility needs.
- On-site amenities including a free on-site gym with locker rooms and showers for employee use only.
- Low-cost lunches available 7 days a week.
- Convenient parking in a well-lit & maintained lot with winter plug-ins and a scenic drive to work while avoiding the congested commute to Anchorage!
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Goose Creek Correctional Center is a minimum/medium custody facility that houses up to 1500 inmates and employs over 350 staff. You will be working in an institutional setting with inmates daily.
Who We Are Looking For:
We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
- Electronics: Knowledge of electronic theory, circuits, components, and material properties (excluding computers).
- Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
- Network Management: Knowledge of the operation, management, and maintenance of network and telecommunication systems and linked systems and peripherals.
Any combination of education and/or progressively responsible experience providing the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to independently perform the full range of duties typically assigned to the occupational group at the highest level, and/or to lead a group of workers in the occupational field and direct and assign work.
Essential Core Competencies:
Knowledge of advanced shop mathematics; of the principles underlying the work; and of two or more trades of crafts work.
Ability to perform multiple tasks in a variety of skilled trades; perform construction and maintenance repairs; use and operate tools, equipment, or machines of varying difficulty; perform physically demanding work; detect and identify needed repairs; read and write; follow and apply written and verbal directions; make decisions and follow through to completion or resolution of a problem; respond to emergency situations following established procedures; demonstrate sensitivity and interest in customer concerns and needs; and develop specifications for purchase of technical and/or specialized equipment.
Position-Specific Competencies:
Journey-level workers are required to have the required skills to handle difficult problems encountered; have comprehensive knowledge of the subject or occupational area; use judgment in determining actions; exercise independence in determining actions; plan and lay out work (i.e., determine how to do one’s work); make appropriate choice among alternatives; complete work with only limited instruction and/or little to no advice; and proceed with work without having results or products generally reviewed in progress.
Lead workers are required to assign, monitor, train, and evaluate daily tasks; make decisions and set and balance priorities; coordinate tasks of others and work efficiently; ensure adherence to work schedules, quality standards, safety and security rules; give clear instructions; recommend appropriate solutions to difficult situations; and motivate others.
Additionally:
Knowledge of preventive practices in hazardous electrical areas, procedures and practices for discharging capacitors and proper grounding of conduits; electronic instrumentation such as equipment used in an environmental laboratory or for environmental field monitoring; related environmental laboratory instruments and support systems; and ambient air monitoring methods and scientific instrumentation.
Applicable skill in proper soldering, techniques on printed circuit boards; cabling practices (fiber and copper).
Ability to design, install, troubleshoot, maintain, and inspect: computer systems, networks, and related devices; electronic shop and trade practices, including technological changes; and existing and new electrical and electronic systems, components, and devices. Ability to install, de-install, calibrate, repair, maintain, and operate: electronic ambient air monitoring systems and water and wastewater systems. Ability to troubleshoot and repair defective electronic/electrical equipment. Ability to repair power and service equipment at high and low voltage from power terminals; install conduit and splice cable; and recognize and respond to dangerous situations or emergencies such as high voltage systems, electrical fires, loose hot wire, broken power lines and the like and to use appropriate response equipment.
Lead workers, in addition, must have the ability to work in an efficient manner; ensure adequacy of inventory, equipment, tools, and supplies; and recommend alternative solutions to problems encountered.
Special Note:
Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral prior to posting on Workplace Alaska, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.
Some positions may require any combination of Commercial Driver’s License, with specific endorsements; Alaska Driver’s License; Asbestos Worker Certificate; Basic Traffic Signal Troubleshooting; Certificate of Fitness as Electrical Lineman; Certificate of Fitness as Electrician; Certificate of Fitness as Plumber; Electronic Technician; FCC General Radio Telephone Operator License; Fire Alarm System Certificate; First Aid and CPR Certificate; 40-hour Hazardous Materials Training and annual refresher course(s); Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC); International Municipal Signal Association Certificate; Maintenance and Installation of Roadway Lighting; Mandt training; Stationary Steam Boiler Certificate; Traffic Control Equipment Technician; Universal Refrigeration Certificate; Wastewater Collection Certification; Water Distribution Certification; Water Treatment Certification; and/or Work Zone Traffic Safety Control.
Incumbents of positions that require a Commercial Driver’s License are subject to drug and alcohol testing in accordance with federal regulations.
Some positions may require a criminal background check and/or Possession of a security clearance by State or federal agencies.
“Essential Core Competencies” are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of all levels of the career area. These are included in the position description and performance evaluation review process.
“Position-Specific Competencies” are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of the skill level and primary duties of the specific job.
“Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, on-the-job, and military training), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree, apprenticeships, and trade or vocational schools) and short-duration (such as a seminar, professional development, and microcredentials, i.e., computer science, human resources, project management) programs.
“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES
Starting salary may be approved up to Step C - $37.36, if criteria are met.
LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.
EDUCATION
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
WORK EXPERIENCE
If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.
PREA NOTIFICATION
The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders. PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in, or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:
- Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institutions.
- Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or
- Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.
CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS
Please be aware – this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.
FINGERPRINT NOTICE
All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.
DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIREMENT
Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.
EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or 465-4095 in Juneau or (907) 465-3412 (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.
WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE
Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.
For applicant password assistance please visit:https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword Dorothy Anderson
Administrative Assistant 2
907-864-8123
dorothy.anderson@alaska.gov
Salary : $35 - $37