Maintenance Worker

This position is located at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a variety of tasks involved in the upkeep of buildings, grounds, and related structures, fixtures, and utilities. This includes repair and preventive maintenance of irrigation systems, maintaining and repairing buildings and physical structures, facilities, and utilities using hand and power tools.

• Perform routine maintenance and repairs on cemetery equipment, including irrigation systems, pumps, and control cabinets.
• Operate a variety of motorized vehicles and equipment, gasoline or diesel powered.
• Assist with setting headstones, sweeps streets, and removes unsightly flowers, trash, and debris from cemetery grounds.
• Assist gardener in gardening operations performing seasonal gardening tasks such as fertilizing, laying sod, mowing, pruning, trimming, and raking.
• Repair and maintain the cemetery irrigation two-wire decoder style control system, central control computer irrigation system, pump station, and weather station.
• Excavate the ground to repair, replace, or install irrigation lines and wire of the irrigation systems and storm water systems.
• Operate a variety of small, motorized vehicles and equipment, such as pick-ups, dump trucks, vans, and utility equipment to transport tools and materials throughout the cemetery site to affect repairs and maintain all infrastructures.
• Operate various pieces of equipment, such as tractors, excavators, rototillers, trenchers, dump trucks, utility dumpers, skid steer, vehicles, forklifts, golf carts, and others to assist in performing duties associated with grounds maintenance and interment operations.
• Utilize GPS technology and equipment to perform GPS collection of points on gravesites, headstones, and in the excavation casket/crypt area.

• Subject to a background/security investigation.
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job.
• Pass a pre-employment medical examination.
• Must possess a valid state driver's license.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/18/2024. Your background must demonstrate work involved in the full range of building and maintenance trades to include carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, masonry, pest control, asphalt repairs, etc. This includes repair and preventive maintenance of irrigation systems, maintaining and repairing buildings and physical structures, facilities, and utilities using hand and power tools.

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.

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. The screen-out element(s) for this position is/are:

• Ability to do the job without more than normal supervision.
• Must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license.

JOB ELEMENTS: Those who meet the minimum level of experience and training for the screen-out element will then be evaluated in each of the following job elements:

• Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Technical Practices
• Without more than normal supervision