Production Machinery Mechanic Leader (Machine Repair)

Summary Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. About the Position: Serves as working leader of approximately twenty employees in accomplishing trades and labor work. Responsibilities Applies a variety of complex methods, procedures, and techniques to layout, install, align, repair, overhaul, and maintain numerous types of fixed and semi-fixed production and some non-production machinery and equipment. Examines and troubleshoots to determine the nature and extent of repairs necessary and make needed repairs by replacing, reworking, or refinishing worn or damaged parts and components. Interpret and apply the requirements contained in technical manuals, shop directives, multi-views blueprints, and other documents in determining to isolate malfunctions. Use various test equipment and measuring devices such as leak detectors, flow meters, depth and feeler gauges, calipers, bearing bridge gages, alignments scopes, transits, dial indicators, RPM counters, strobe tachometers, verniers, and micrometers. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Reinstatement 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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of an Production Machinery Mechanic Leader (Machine Repair) without more than normal supervision. The work of the position normally includes leading or working besides others to diagnose and repair of a wide range of complex industrial machines or equipment that have interrelated electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical mechanisms; repair machinery/equipment by replacing parts from stock if available; adjusting, reworking, or rebuilding worn parts or manufacturing new parts; perform precision alignment and adjustments in repair and reassembly of complicated machinery; comply with supervisor's instructions on work sequences, procedures, and methods. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprint reading) Ability To Lead or Supervise Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment KNOWLEDGE OF EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY, INSTALLATION, REPAIR, ETC. Knowledge of Materials Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Trouble Shooting PHYSICAL EFFORT: Frequently handles objects weighing up to 50 pounds, occasionally carrying objects in excess of 50pounds for considerable distances. Pushes, pulls, reaches, walks, crawls, kneels, bends, and climbs for sustained periods of time. WORKING CONDITIONS: Works inside/outside, exposed to prevailing weather conditions and excessive noise. Regularly exposed to moving objects, elevations, and sharp edges with possibility of cuts, bruises, and more serious injuries. Grease, dirt, and dampness are frequently encountered. Term Appointment NTE - Position may be filled as a Term Appointment Not To Exceed (NTE) 13 months. Term appointments may be extended beyond of six (6) years, up to eight (8) years. With DoD approval, Term appointments may be extended beyond eight (8) years. Current permanent Federal employees (to include permanent Army employees) applying for a Term appointment will be appointed/converted into a Term appointment with no statutory return rights back to a permanent position. Education Additional Information The Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center occupies 1.5 million square feet of its Kingsbury Complex home. As the only multi-purpose and vertically integrated metal manufacturer in the Department of Defense, the center possesses the unique technical expertise and equipment to manufacture products high in quality and sustainability. RIA-JMTC also reaches out to the community by offering machinist apprenticeships and other training programs to qualified applicants. The availability of centralized manufacturing and testing allows production to come full circle, thus minimizing the need to outsource. This full service center holds within it the people and the equipment needed to meet goals of continuous process improvement, efficiently utilizing available time and money. RIA-JMTC values its ability to provide rapid response and superior products to both the Armed services and the consumer. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. This is a(n) Logistics Career Field position. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.