Industrial Equipment Mechanic

Veterans Health Administration • Murfreesboro, TN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is located at a Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Industrial Equipment Mechanic installs, repairs, overhauls, aligns, modifies, relocates, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains automated industrial, medical, engineering, and building-service equipment and systems with complex interrelationships among components. The role works on systems with electric, electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic components, including automated conveyors, dispensing equipment, elevators, and facility machinery.

Work schedule is Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Work takes place in an industrial warehouse. The position requires handling objects weighing 45 pounds and occasionally carrying objects of that weight or more over considerable distances. The employee pushes, pulls, reaches, walks, stands, and works in cramped positions over and under machinery for sustained periods. Protective clothing—including hard hats, gloves, safety shoes, glasses, and, where needed, arc-flash clothing—is required. Work may involve exposure to 480-volt equipment, moving objects, sharp edges, noise, vibration, dirt, grease, and potentially dangerous electric and manual tools. The employee may occasionally climb and work from ladders.

A pre-employment physical is required. Applicants are evaluated using job elements including equipment assembly, installation and repair; interpreting instructions and specifications, including blueprint reading; materials; technical practices; troubleshooting; use and maintenance of tools and equipment; and working without more than normal supervision. No education qualification is required, and no specific length of training or experience is stated.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• A pre-employment physical is required.
• Must complete a background/security investigation and online onboarding process.
• Must participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program as a condition of employment.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period.
• Ability to handle objects weighing 45 pounds and occasionally carry objects weighing 45 pounds or more over considerable distances.
• Ability to push, pull, reach, walk, stand, and work in cramped positions over and under machinery for sustained periods.
• Ability to wear required protective clothing, including arc-flash clothing when needed.
• Ability to work around moving objects, sharp edges, noise, vibration, dirt, grease, and potentially hazardous tools and equipment; occasional ladder use is required.
• Applicants are assessed on equipment assembly, installation and repair; interpretation of instructions and specifications, including blueprint reading; materials; technical practices; troubleshooting; tool use and maintenance; and working without more than normal supervision.
• Experience listed on a resume must include month and year start and end dates; part-time experience must specify duties and hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive maintenance, repairs, installations, relocations, tests, overhauls, modifications, troubleshooting, and adjustments on industrial, medical, engineering, and building-service equipment.
• Diagnose and repair machinery with interrelated electric, electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic components, including conveyor systems, actuators, divert systems, elevator assemblies, tablet and capsule dispensers and counters, unit-of-use equipment, bottle sorters and capping systems, and label printers.
• Maintain industrial compressed-air equipment and hydraulic equipment.
• Use amp meters and volt/ohm meters to troubleshoot electrical problems in industrial and facility systems, including batteries, motor controls, refrigerators and freezers, power supplies, programmable logic controllers, and wiring systems.
• Use arc welders, torches, machine tools, micrometers, power drills, saws, and grinders to measure and fabricate braces, supports, and adjustable workstations, and to repair machinery.
• Lay out, disassemble, install, align, repair, overhaul, and maintain electronic and pneumatic actuators, divert systems, conveyors, and elevator or lift assemblies.
• Troubleshoot, maintain, calibrate, and repair mechanical and electronic system components.
• Maintain conveyors, mover motors, drive belts, and picker assemblies supporting automated unit-of-use dispensing equipment.
• Disassemble and repair industrial plant machinery and systems, including conveyors, bridge cranes, air compressors, and dynamometers.
• Dismantle, move, and relocate industrial plant machinery and equipment, or install new machinery and equipment.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package is available to eligible employees and their families.
• Eligible selected applicants may request credit for prior qualifying work or military service toward annual leave accrual; approval is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

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