Electronics Mechanic

Veterans Health Administration • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This full-performance position is in the Engineering department at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Medical Center in Sepulveda. The Electronics Mechanic fabricates, overhauls, modifies, installs, troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains hospital electronic equipment and systems, including nurse call, code blue, fire alarm, wandering systems, SMATV, and computers. The work requires broad knowledge of electronic theories, principles, and established practices to ensure systems function reliably.

The mechanic services complex electronic systems and equipment, performs maintenance and operational checks, and ensures compliance with technical requirements in support of facility missions. The position also includes work on directional-finding systems and associated RF, amplifier, frequency-generation, signal-processing, and antenna-control equipment.

The schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A compressed or flexible schedule is not authorized. Relocation and recruitment incentives are not authorized.

Requirements

• Demonstrate training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision.
• Knowledge and ability related to electronics equipment assembly, installation, and repair; ingenuity; test equipment; electronics theory; and electrical troubleshooting.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Subject to urinalysis for illegal drug use, background/security investigation, and pre-employment physical; selected applicants must complete online onboarding and provide acceptable identification.
• Must meet Selective Service registration requirements if male and born after December 31, 1959.
• Must participate in the VA seasonal influenza vaccination program.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Frequent lifting and carrying of items up to 40 pounds unassisted; sometimes lifting and carrying items over 50 pounds with equipment or assistance.
• Frequent standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, and stooping; climbing and working at heights may be required.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate, install, modify, overhaul, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair complex electronic equipment and integrated systems.
• Service, maintain, and repair analog/digital networked television, COMSEC, fire alarm control, nurse call, L-Pass Wander Guard, security camera, and computer-based programming and control systems.
• Maintain, test, calibrate, and repair directional-finding systems and associated RF monitor and test equipment, high-power amplifier units, frequency-generation devices, IFLAs, low-noise components, tracking equipment, and antenna-control equipment.
• Perform maintenance, repairs, installations, and operational checks on complex electronic equipment and systems to ensure proper operation, compliance with technical requirements, and support of facility missions.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package is available to eligible employees and their families.
• Potential credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work or military service, subject to request and approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed