Electrician

The Electrician position works under the general supervision of the Maintenance Operations Supervisor, but performs most duties independently. This position is with in the Facility Maintenance Service Line, located at the Manchester VHA in New Hampshire.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:

• Electric Drawings
• Electrical
• Electrical Equipment
• Use and Maintain Hand Tools (Electrical Work)
• Without more than normal supervision

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Responsibilities:

The incumbent is assigned a wide variety of work orders\duties of a journeyman electrician involving installation, modification, repair, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance and testing of complex electrical systems, circuits, equipment, appliances, controls, components, lighting fixtures and fire alarm systems.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Planning layouts, installs, as well as modifying and repairing a variety of complete systems as well as any parts of these systems.
• Work with various gauges, sizes and types of wire, conduit, couplings, fittings, relays, boxes, circuit breakers and other electrical devices.
• Use of tools and equipment such as Threading machine, soldering copper pipe, Hand Electric Augers and all associated hand tools.
• Making repairs such as tightening, connections and wrapping exposed wiring with insulated tape.
• Test circuits to see if they are complete after making repairs or installations.
• Electrical troubleshooting and the skill required to remove and replace fixtures and controls and to make repairs such as tightening connections and wrapping exposed wiring.
• Rearranging old or new outlets, relays, switches, and light fixtures and to test circuits.
• Recognizing parts, such as resistors capacitors, and transistors.
• Plumbing methods and techniques, for example must know how to measure, cut, bend pipes, and tiles.
• Caulking and sealing such things as elbows, union joints, tiles pipe, faucets, and shower drains.
• Skilled in refrigeration cycle of a variety of systems to make visual, audible, and mechanical checks.
• Applying plastering trade practices and be able to apply commonly accepted work methods and techniques.
• Applying carpentry trade practices, which includes how to add, subtract, multiply, divide and work with simple fractions to plan and measure material according to requirements and dimensions outlined in instructions.
• Applying surface preparation and coating methods and techniques for painting.

Work Schedule: Full-time-Monday through Friday 7:00am to 3:30pm.
Position Description Title/PD#: Electrician/PD00255-A
Physical Requirements: The duties require considerable movement around the hospital and involves bending, lifting, working from ladders and scaffolding and platforms, both in the outside buildings, and crawling through restrictive areas. The incumbent must occasionally lift equipment or materials weighing fifty pounds or more with proper equipment. Assignments may require him/her to stand, stoop, kneel, climb and work in tiring and uncomfortable positrons.

Notification:

• This is not a Bargaining Unit Position.
• 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.
• This position is in the Competitive Service.
• Competitive Service-"The first year of Service of an employee who is given a career or career conditional appointment in the competitive service under the Civil Service Regulations is a probationary period unless specifically exempted by the appointing authority".
• Current and former Federal employees should submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

Salary : $38