Maintenance Worker

The National Park Service is seeking a skilled Maintenance Worker to join our team. As a key member of our maintenance crew, you will be responsible for providing recurring maintenance and repair work on roads, trails, and signs.

• Provides recurring maintenance and repair work on roads, trails, and signs.
• Assists journeymen and other higher graded maintenance workers with recurring building and/or utility maintenance and operation duties.
• Works as a team member on crews that perform pavement sealing, asphalt and concrete potholing, using hot patch, cold patch, and concrete mixtures, milling and paving.
• Creates and installs signage along roadways and trails.
• Operates and performs operator maintenance on cars, trucks, and/or vans and stake trucks to pick up supplies and to transport materials to and from work sites while assisting on project work.

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
• You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment.
• In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
• You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.
• You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record.
• You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
• You must possess and maintain a current Class B (or higher) Commercial Driver's License.
• At the time of appointment, the incumbent of this position must have language proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking in the English language.
• You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
• A uniform allowance will be provided.
• You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
• If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
• You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2 nights per month.
• You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
• Government Charge Card: You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.

• To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors:
• Ability To Do the Work of a Maintenance Worker (MVO) Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
• Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications and or Blueprints
• Ability to Use, Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, and Repair, etc.
• Knowledge of Materials Technical Practices (Theoretical, Precise, Artistic)
• Use of Measuring Instruments

Please note that if your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration.

In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job.

Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume.

The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone.

Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors.

Volunteer Experience: 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.

Education: There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.

Additional Information: This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.

Physical Demands: Physical effort is heavy to moderate and requires occasional lifting or handling of objects or materials up to 50 pounds unassisted, following proper lifting procedures to avoid injury.

Frequently required to stand while working, climb ladders or scaffolding, and bend, stoop, climb, and work in awkward positions.

Working Conditions: Operates motor vehicles and equipment in or near fast moving traffic, in extreme heat and inclement weather while working outdoors (temperatures 0 to 95+ degrees), and in darkness for snow removal and other emergencies.

Works outside and is exposed to a variety of seasonal weather conditions while working outdoors, including extremes of cold, heat, and humidity.

May be exposed to dust, dirt, wind, rain, sleet, and snow.

May work with dangerous chemicals, paints, solvents, etc.

Works around moving equipment.

May be exposed to insect and animal bites and stings, plant toxins.

Must have and maintain a valid state or District of Columbia driver's license, and a valid CDL Class B or above.

The National Park Service has determined that the duties of this position are NOT SUITABLE for telework.

Documentation for the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) eligibility, submission of ALL SF-50s and performance information for each period of temporary/term employment that qualifies for LMWFA.

Performance documentation can be obtained by contacting the supervisors for the positions you served in during your 24 months.

If they did not complete performance appraisals ask them to provide a statement of performance for each period of service.

The statement must specify the dates for each employment period and your level of performance (dates should match the dates on the SF-50s).

Current and former Federal employees with status, or who are reinstatement eligible; veterans eligible under the VEOA authority, or who are 30% or more disabled; applicants eligible under special appointing authorities such as individuals with targeted disabilities, certain military spouses, former Peace Corps and Vista Volunteers, etc.

For more information, select the following link(s): 1) Merit Promotion, 2) Status Candidate, and/or 3) Veteran Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA).

Current or former displaced Federal employee in the local commuting area eligible under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), current Department of Interior (DOI) employees in the local commuting area eligible under the Career Transition Program (CTAP), and Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) eligibility.

For more information, select the following link(s): 1) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP), 2) Career Transition Program (CTAP), and/or 3) Veteran Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA).

Current or former time-limited (temporary and term) employees of a land management agency eligible for permanent positions under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA).

For more information, select the following link: Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA).