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Maintenance Worker
$28 - $33/Yr
Department of Defense - Pasco, WA
posted 16 days ago
Full-time
Pasco, WA
National Security and International Affairs
About the position
Ice Harbor Project is a multi-purpose hydropower project, with missions including operation and maintenance of the facility for flood control, hydro power generation with six main generating units, navigation locks, fish facility, recreation, and natural resource management.
Responsibilities
- Performs troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining equipment, facilities and structures related to public use, general project operations, water control, and irrigation systems.
- Operate and maintain motor vehicles to transport people and materials to the job site and around project areas.
- Operates other equipment for which licensed and qualified, such as 2-ton stake body trucks, front-end loader, backhoe, track mounted excavator, small forklifts, 5 and 10 cubic yard dump trucks, 5-ton tractors, etc.
- Operates, tests and maintains irrigation systems at local and remote sites.
- Performs a variety of repairs and preventive maintenance. Repairs control valves, pump control valves for watering stations, and station timers. Repairs and replaces underground irrigation pipes, sprinklers, etc.
- Performs field work including Biological, chemical, and mechanical weed control. Boundary fence line inspection and repair and boundary signage replacement. Vault toilet maintenance and operation, etc.
- Constructs wooden structure forms for concrete; measures, cuts and constructs and makes carpentry repairs to nesting structures, duck owl and bat boxes, steps, picnic tables, doors, windows, floors, walls, roofs, etc.
- Performs metal fabrication, modification and repair through gas and arc welding, grinding and finishing.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- A pre-employment drug test is required.
- A pre-employment physical is required.
- This position requires the ability to lift heavy objects, 90 lbs, specific to the position.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat operator license within 12 months after initial appointment.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain or possess a valid state driver's license.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee.
