What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Mechanic - Maintenance Mechanic 1 - 2 Positions position at Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife?
- Number of Vacancies-** Two (2) Positions
- Working Title-** Maintenance Mechanic
- Classification-** Maintenance Mechanic 1
- Job Status-** Full-Time/Permanent
- WDFW Program-** Capital and Asset Management Program -- Yakima Construction Shop
- Duty Station-** Yakima, Washington -- Yakima County
- Embrace this role** to support the strategic goals and objectives to protect, restore, and enhance Fish and Wildlife populations and their habitats.
- These positions are an opportunity** to serve the Department programs by delivering technical and professional services that create and maintain the assets under Department care.
- We are seeking candidates** to assist others in maintaining grounds safety and agency assets by performing various general semi-skilled manual labor that support various trades such as carpenters, equipment operators, welders, and mechanics.
Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, this position will:
**Site Clearing and Site Safety Securing.**
- Cleans up rubble and debris and removes trash and materials.
- Digs and backfill ditches and trenches, cuts, and removes woody debris, grounds restoration, and cleans barrier dams.
- Maintains a clean job site, mowing, weed eating, clipping removal.
- Picks up tools, equipment, and secures job site each day to eliminate potential hazards.
- Sets up traffic cones, barricades, warning ribbons and any other devices as directed to ensure site and yard safety.
- Monitor site conditions and report to management any potential unsafe conditions. Participate in making site safe as instructed by management.
- Operates motorized vehicles such as trucks and trailer combination to transport equipment, supplies, and materials.
- Operates hand and power tools, weed eater, leaf blower, chain saw, welder, plate compactors, and set-up/break down of portable trash pumps.
- Loads, unloads, and moves supplies, materials, or equipment to a from the work site using forklifts, backhoes and flat-bed trucks or trailers.
- Performs various general construction support tasks.
- Cuts pipe, plate and other materials. Assists in the installation of pipe, valves, gates, and signage.
- Assists resident shop-based staff in general day-to-day maintenance tasks such as (but not limited to) emptying trash cans, sweeping floors, sorting recyclable packing and shipping materials into appropriate bins, sorting junk pallets and organizing/returning core pallets to vendor.
- Minds and maintains general stockpile and on-site supplies of various construction materials as directed.
- Receives and stores material and general vendor deliveries.
- Picks up and transports/delivers parts, materials and small equipment.
- Work setting:** Duties are performed at construction sites on hatchery and wildlife areas in construction staging yard, truck shop, and in the pump shop. This position may involve working in or near water, including tasks that require navigating, negotiating, and performing duties related to water environments. Bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, pushing, pulling, and lifting of 50 pounds repetitively when loading and unloading trucks or moving materials around project site. Some tasks will involve working on a computer.
- Schedule:** These p