About the Role:
The Air Force Test Center is looking for a Full-Time Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic (Forklift Operator) WG-5803-10 to work at the 412th Logistics Readiness Squadron, at Edwards AFB, in Edwards, CA.
To maintain, troubleshoot, overhaul, repair, and modify a variety of heavy duty vehicles and mobile equipment which have utility systems or special hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, electrical, or electronic systems, features, or controls designed for such purposes as construction, combat, earth moving, firefighting, refueling, and comparable industrial or special applications.
Announcement Length/Closes: 15 workdays
Location: Edwards Air Force Base
Typical 2025 salary range: $70,811- $82,499/per year (includes Locality)
- Areas of Consideration (AOC): Department – wide (DoD)
Desired Skills:
– Knowledge of heavy mobile equipment assembly, installation, and repair, i.e., bulldozers, road graders, power shovels, mobile cranes, heavy combat equipment, and missile transporters.
– Knowledge of (safety regulations, procedures, and policies to include environmental directives pertaining to handling hazardous materials.
– Skill in handling controls for starting stopping, backing, and driving fork lift trucks through narrow aisles in buildings, up and down ramps, and in and out of railroad cars, trucks, planes, etc.
– Ability to interpret instructions, technical manuals, illustrations, specifications, diagrams, schematics, and similar guides to make repairs and modifications.
Major Duties:
– Troubleshoots hard-to-locate problems, identifies defects and causes of mechanical problems to determine type and extent of necessary repairs to a variety of heavy mobile vehicles and equipment.
– Repairs, overhauls, and rebuilds a variety of heavy mobile equipment/vehicles such as bulldozers, road graders, power shovels, mobile cranes, heavy combat equipment, and missile transporters, including their major systems, i.e.,diesel, multi-fuel, and gasoline engines (including supercharged and turbocharged), automatic/manual transmissions, multi-gear assemblies, and a variety of positioning systems.
– Makes repairs that can be accomplished by removing, replacing, adjusting, and cleaning defective parts or components such as spark plugs, fan belts, generators, starters, carburetors, fuel and water pumps, mufflers, tail pipes, wheel bearings, brakes, radiators, engine compo1U11ts, and heating and cooling devices.
-Performs scheduled and unscheduled preventive maintenance on vehicles to restore automotive equipment to a serviceable condition.
– Conducts functional and performance tests using a wide variety of test procedures and equipment on completed work assignments.
– Operates one or more electric, LPG, or diesel powered fork lift trucks which are capable of lifting loads of less than 10,000 pounds as high as 168 inches to facilitate loading and unloading duties.
Qualifications/Requirements:
– U.S. Citizenship
– This position may require drug testing and the candidate may be subject to passing a drug test upon selection
– Must be able to pass a pre-employment physical
– Knowledge of technical practices in order to repair/overhaul major systems (i.e., diesel, multi-fuel, and gasoline engines, automatic and manual transmissions, multi-gear assemblies, and a variety of positioning systems) and to remove, replace, clean, and install a variety of parts, components, and accessories (i.e., wheel cylinders, universal joints, springs, shock absorbers, catalytic converters, clutch assemblies, mufflers, etc.).
-Skill in using measuring ins1ruments and test equipment such as test lamps, timing lights, multimeters, swell meters, engine analyzers, dynamometers, exhaust analyzers, vacuum and fuel pump testers, injector testers, ignition timers, tachometers,. ammeters, and ohmmeters.
-Ability to maintain and repair combustion-powered automotive vehicles, electric-powered vehicles and equipment, towed vehicles and equipment, over-the-road trucks, and comparable vehicles without more than normal supervision.
***Resumes limited to two pages. Federal agencies now only accept resumes up to two pages in length.*** Learn more about the new resume requirements at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.
Please send resumes to: Andrea Aroche/ Email: 412LRS.LGR.HR@us.af.mil
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