Created at: December 19, 2025 01:03
Company: Bureau of Indian Education
Location: Albuquerque, NM, 87101
Job Description:
This position is part of the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). As a Maintenance Mechanic you will be responsible for performing preventive, corrective maintenance and repairs at a journeymen level for all campus mechanical, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, architectural and interior finished systems.
Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what the applicant can do against what the work calls for. The knowledge, skills, and abilities of applicants are compared with the knowledge, skills, and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. If applicants have the ability to do the work, they are considered eligible for the job. Applicants who appear to meet the prescribed Screen-out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. While a specific length of training and/or experience is not required, applicant responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed resume work history information. Assumptions will not be made regarding applicants' experience and duties performed. Maintenance Mechanic WG-4749-10, must be able to independently perform a wide range of maintenance activities. This position involves installing, maintaining, repairing and performing quality preventive maintenance and modifying complex heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems and support equipment. Applicants will be rated on the following Job Elements: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (Screen-out Element) Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair, etc. Technical Practices and Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
As a Maintenance Mechanic WG-4749-10, your typical work assignments may include the following under supervision: Independently applies skilled methods, techniques, and advanced shop mathematics to construct, install, repair, and modify a wide variety of structures. Utilizes safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintains a safe and clean work environment. Performs masonry tasks involved in the maintenance, repair, alteration, and construction of interior and exterior surfaces and structures. Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders in the construction and maintenance of installation facilities. Reviews work order requirements reflecting structures to be constructed, installed, modified, altered, or repaired. Develops patterns, cuts, forms, joins, assembles, and installs items and systems which have combined straight and curved edges or irregular curves, angles, and planes.