Mechanic Supervisor

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Position.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise workers directly or through subordinate leaders and/or supervisors in accomplishing work of the function.
• Plan work operations of great scope, complexity, and administrative authority.
• Determine the sequence, priority, and time for performance of operations within the limits of broad work schedules and time limits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan the use of subordinate workers, equipment, facilities, and materials on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis.
• Establish deadlines, priorities, and work sequences, and plan work assignments based on general work schedules, methods, and policies set by the supervisor.
• Participate in the initial planning of current and future work schedules, staffing needs, estimates, and recommendations as to scheduling projected work.
• Note work-related problems and independently implement corrective actions, which can be taken without affecting work operations controlled by other supervisors.
• Assure tools, special tools, test measurement and diagnostic equipment, personal protective equipment, repair parts, petroleum, oils, and lubricants, and other materiel are available when needed.
• Manage maintenance backlog through coordination with other maintenance activities.
• Evacuate and accept equipment, repairs, and services to and from other maintenance facilities.
• Perform non-supervisory work, such as transporting equipment, performing maintenance tasks, etc.
• Determine skills, materials, and equipment required to do the work.
• Assign tasks to be performed based on readiness and explains work requirements, methods, and procedures.
• Ensure equipment repairs do not exceed maintenance expenditure limits in accordance as established by regulation and/or policies.
• Ensure the employees wear appropriate safety equipment and follow pertinent safety precautions.
• Recommend solutions to staffing problems, engineering requirements, and work operations directed by other supervisors.
• Investigate work-related problems such as excessive costs or low productivity and determines causes.
• Provide management with workload data, estimates, and recommendations to facilitate more effective management decisions for staffing and funding requirements to support customer units.
• Determine the number and types of workers needed to accomplish specific projects.

Requirements:

• This is an excepted service position that requires membership in the Illinois National Guard and in the military grade listed in the announcement.
• Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform.
• Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.
• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.