Surface Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Position.

We are seeking a highly skilled Surface Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor to join our team. As a Surface Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor, you will be responsible for planning, directing, and organizing work assignments for lower-grade personnel. You will review work requirements, establish priorities, and meet deadlines. You will also be responsible for supervising or having the potential to perform supervisory duties, demonstrating knowledge of general supervisory concepts and shop processes.

1. Planning:

   Provides direct input or participates in meetings and/or conferences with engineering, production control, and other personnel involving the initial analysis of long-range work requirements.

   Reviews immediate and long-range requirements of organizational segments and groups supervised based on workload forecasts, and develops, for approval by their superiors, plans for meeting long-range resource requirements.

   Plans the allocation of resources and the distribution of work to subordinate supervisors, and determines the internal plan to be followed by subordinate supervisors in applying those resources to accomplish work operations.

   Evaluates resources required to accomplish proposed work packages or program(s) in relation to the resources committed to ongoing and previously scheduled work operations; and recommends changes to superiors concerning previously planned work schedules.

   Participates fully with higher level management officials and staff organizations in studying and developing recommendations concerning changes in specification requirements, work techniques, and standards; revision of organizational structures, responsibilities, and relationships; and improvement or modernization of equipment, facility layout, and workflow.

2. Work Direction:

   Assigns and explains work requirements and operating instructions to subordinate supervisors, sets deadlines, and establishes the sequence of work operations to be followed.

   Maintains balanced workloads by shifting assignments, workers, and other resources to achieve the most effective work operations.

   Reviews and analyzes work accomplishments, cost, and utilization of subordinates to evaluate work progress, control costs, and anticipate and avoid possible problems by recommending corrective action to superiors.

   Participates with management officials and/or engineering personnel to develop qualitative and/or quantitative work standards.

   Evaluates work operations and reviews completed work and inspection reports to assure that standards are met.

   Coordinates work operations with the supervisors of other organizations and functions.

3. Administration:

   Develops and establishes internal procedures (e.g., meetings, content, and timing of reports) to be followed by subordinate supervisors to assure effective control and direction of work activities, organizations, and personnel supervised.

   Identifies long-range training needs for all levels of subordinate supervisors and workers and submits justification and funding requests to superiors and arranges for the accomplishment of the training.

4. Additional Responsibilities:

   Develops, publishes, and ensures employee compliance with standing operating procedures for the activity supervised.

   Implements and complies with agency, state, and Federal regulatory Occupational Safety and Health, and environmental requirements.

   Ensures use of quality conformant products through compliance with established materials shelf life programs.

   Ensures all aspects of Force Protection to include physical security, facility and vehicle key control, property accountability, access control, and employee protection in accordance with established policies and regulations.

   Implements procedures to account for real property, installation property, MTO&E (Modified Tables of Organization and Equipment) property, TDA (Tables of Distribution and Allowances) property, and installed equipment located at or assigned to the facility in accordance with state and Federal regulations and policies.

   Ensures subordinates are trained, qualified, and equipped with proper protective equipment, environmental mediation equipment, and materials.

   Ensures that employees wear appropriate safety equipment and follow pertinent safety precautions.

   Prepares for and participates in various types of readiness evaluations, inspections, mobilization, and command support exercises.

   May be required to perform such additional duties as structural fire fighting, aircraft fire/crash/rescue duty, security guard, snow removal, munitions loading and handling, heavy equipment operation, maintenance of facilities and equipment, or to serve as a team member on boards to cope with natural disasters or civil emergencies.

   May be required to serve as a member of the Command Maintenance Evaluation Team (COMET).

5. Requirements:

   This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military grade in the Alabama Army National Guard.

   Applicants who are not currently a member of the Alabama Army National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership.

   If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact an Alabama Army National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.

Minimum Military Rank: CPT

Maximum Military Rank: MAJ

Other Requirements: For positions requiring the operation of motor vehicles, candidates must have a valid state driver's license.

Experience Requirements: Each applicant must fully substantiate (in his/her own words) that he/she meets the requirements of the Specialized Experience listed below: Otherwise, the applicant will be considered unqualified for this position.

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General Experience: Experience or training which demonstrates knowledge of equipment to be able to do routine jobs, simple preventative maintenance tasks, and can use common tools and equipment in the line of work

Specialized Experience: In addition to the journeyman level knowledge, experience which demonstrates the ability to plan, direct, and organize work assignments for lower-grade personnel.

Experience which required the review of work requirements and establish priorities to meet deadlines.

Experience that provided knowledge of various lines of work performed by this function.

Experience which demonstrates the ability to supervise or the potential to perform such duties as evidenced by the ability to communicate knowledge of general supervisory concepts, and knowledge of shop processes.

Experience in adapting existing equipment and techniques to new situations.

Experience or training using common hand and power tools and a small variety of test and measurement devices to make mechanical repairs.

Experience removing, adjusting, replacing, cleaning, and installing a variety of parts, components, and accessories.

Experience which demonstrates a basic understanding of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic theory applying to vehicles; and skill to replace, fit, install, and make adjustments.

Experience demonstrating an understanding of the makeup and operation of the various individual systems maintained and their interrelationships.

Experience reading and interpreting parts lists, manufactures' repair manuals, diagrams, and electrical schematics.