Industrial Equipment Mechanic

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel in the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: As Industrial Equipment Mechanic you will perform the installation maintenance, modification testing, overhaul and repair of complicated stationary engineering boiler and boiler feed water equipment and facilities including complete plants and distribution equipment and piping.

Perform the installation maintenance, modification testing, overhaul and repair of complicated stationary engineering boiler and boiler feed water equipment and facilities including complete plants and distribution equipment and piping.

Interpret instructions – manufacturers or local – for installation and operation of equipment.

Independently perform necessary modifications and fabrications to equipment to include substitution condensers, tanks or pumps to meet specific needs,

altering agitators, lines, valves, tubing and piping, changing pumps and adapting feeder lines and associated equipment for transferring water and wastewater throughout the installation.

Inspect facilities/equipment regularly to ensure proper function on, or to diagnose trouble.

Replace bearings, bushings, seals, shafts, filters, gears and gearboxes.

Search for system leaks by air pressurization

As required, remove and decontaminate components, test runs reassembled parts/systems to ensure correct fits, tolerances and operation.

Replace defective or work parts and equipment often require the fabrication of parts of which are obsolete or unavailable. Fabrication required.

Provide urgent repairs that the mechanic is frequently required to improvise or to redesign existing systems or components.

Provide equipment mechanic and pipefitting skills, plus the ability to use these skills in improvising and designing parts and systems used in chemical process technology.

Requires acetylene/electric/welding, sheet metal and iron working, carpentry and rigging skill work.

Operates the following equipment: tool lathes, grinders, drill presses, saws, bending machines, pipe machines, gas and electric welders, hand power tools and various carpentry tools.

Applies shop mathematics to operate tools and to determine the problem solving of equipment repairs.

Response to emergency situations without benefit of supervisory guidance and bring resolution to the problem.

Apply safety, surety, and environmental regulations and procedures.