Surface Maintenance Repairer (T32)

Army National Guard Units • Alexandria, AL

7d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a National Guard Title 32 excepted service position, Position Description Number D1193000, with AL UTES 1 in the Alabama National Guard, located in Alexandria, Alabama. The position performs limited diagnosis, routine repairs, and maintenance on heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical, and automotive vehicles. The repairer works under technical manuals, lubrication orders, maintenance bulletins, regulations, and management policies, and assists higher-graded mechanics with major system repairs and overhauls.

The work includes identifying mechanical failures through visual and auditory checks and basic test equipment; removing, cleaning, adjusting, replacing, and installing parts; and performing routine maintenance and repairs independently, including at remote unit locations. The employee may provide field maintenance as part of a contact team and recover inoperable vehicles. Duties also include limited readiness and repair inspections, preventive maintenance checks and services, and, as needed, minor repairs to communications equipment, vehicle bodies and fenders, small arms, and canvas or leather items. The employee may also maintain documentation and handle receipt, storage, issuance, and inventory of tools and parts.

Appointment requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the Alabama Army National Guard before placement. The selectee must wear the military uniform, participate in direct deposit, and may be required to complete a probationary period. Occasional work outside normal duty hours and overtime may be required. The position may be authorized a recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 25%, subject to approval.

Requirements

• National Guard membership in a compatible military assignment in the Alabama Army National Guard is required before the effective date of placement; applicants who are not current members must be eligible for immediate membership.
• Military grade must fall within the stated range of PVT through CW2.
• General experience or training demonstrating knowledge of equipment sufficient to perform routine jobs and simple preventive maintenance, and ability to use common tools and equipment in the line of work.
• Experience or training using common hand and power tools and a small variety of test and measurement devices to make mechanical repairs.
• Experience removing, adjusting, replacing, cleaning, and installing a variety of parts, components, and accessories.
• Experience demonstrating basic understanding of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic theory as it applies to vehicles, and skill in replacing, fitting, installing, and adjusting components.
• Experience demonstrating understanding of the makeup and operation of individual systems maintained and their interrelationships.
• Experience reading and interpreting parts lists, manufacturers' repair manuals, diagrams, and electrical schematics.
• Basic knowledge of the mechanical makeup, operation, and working relationships of systems in combat, tactical, commercial, automotive, and special-purpose vehicles and equipment.
• Working knowledge of techniques for removing, adjusting, replacing, cleaning, and installing parts and components.
• Basic understanding of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and other non-mechanical system theories, and skill in replacing, fitting, installing, and adjusting systems.
• Skill using basic test equipment and analyzing results to identify faults requiring repair or replacement; ability to use common occupational tools.
• Ability to determine when parts should be cleaned, reinstalled, or replaced with standard parts.
• Ability to read and interpret parts lists, manufacturers' repair manuals, technical manuals, diagrams, engineering drawings, and schematics.
• Selectee must wear the military uniform and participate in direct deposit.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• May occasionally be required to work outside normal duty hours; overtime may be required.

Responsibilities

• Perform limited diagnosis, routine repairs, and maintenance on heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical, and automotive vehicles.
• Assist higher-graded mechanics with repairs or overhauls of engines, transmissions, driveline systems, and hydraulic utility systems and controls.
• Make routine repairs by removing, adjusting, or replacing defective or worn parts and components in accordance with technical manuals and applicable guidance.
• Diagnose mechanical failures using visual and auditory checks and basic test equipment, and determine whether parts should be cleaned, adjusted, or replaced.
• Remove, replace, adjust, clean, and install vehicle parts and components such as seals, switches, sensors, pumps, brakes, filters, radiators, bearings, springs, shock absorbers, starter motors, and related items.
• Independently perform routine repairs and maintenance at remote locations using standard parts; receive guidance for non-routine and complex repairs.
• Provide field maintenance at unit locations as part of a contact team and recover or evacuate inoperable vehicles from breakdown locations.
• Conduct limited readiness and repair inspections and perform Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS) and other preventive maintenance operations.
• Maintain equipment serviceability through tasks such as brake adjustments, fluid replacement, greasing, and cleaning.
• As needed, perform routine maintenance and limited repairs on basic communications equipment by replacing components.
• Perform minor body, fender, or other metal repairs using hand tools and limited welding.
• Perform limited repairs and routine maintenance on small arms and accessory equipment by replacing worn or damaged parts.
• Make minor repairs to canvas and leather items using bonding or sealing compounds and hand tools.
• In conjunction with or in the absence of the Tools and Parts Attendant, maintain supply documentation and receive, store, issue, and inventory tools and parts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• A federal employee benefits package is described as available to employees and their families; specific benefits eligibility depends on position type.
• A recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 25% may be authorized, subject to approval.

What This Job Offers

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