Army Corps of Engineers Jobs For Maintenance Worker

Job Description:

You will function as a Maintenance Worker with the Army Corps of Engineers District, Huntington Regional Rivers Repair Fleet, Heavy Capacity Fleet Unit, duty location Louisville, KY, performing a wide variety of Maintenance Worker duties involved in operations, maintenance and repair of facilities, equipment, structures, building, and grounds, which requires the use of various trade practices.

Job Responsibilities:

• Makes repairs that can be accomplished by removing, adjusting, or replacing defective or worn parts and components.
• Performs routine maintenance on mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems associated with assigned facilities equipment.
• Constructs, maintains, repairs and alters the exterior and interior surfaces and structures built of a variety of brick, block, stone, and related masonry composites.
• Makes repairs on building frames, rafters, door and window frames, interior and exterior trim, workbenches, counter tops, bookcases, and equipment cabinets.
• Operates, controls, and maintains blasting equipment to include hoppers, blasting units, hoses and nozzles, control panels and trigger mechanisms, and dust collector/exhaust systems.
• Operates forklifts on uneven conditions to unload vehicles and move materials in outside storage yards.

Job Requirements:

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must possess and maintain a valid state-issued motor vehicle driver’s license.
• Must take a pre-employment physical.
• Must take a pre-employment and random drug test.
• Requires considerable standing, stooping, and bending; works from ladders and scaffolds requiring prolonged overhead work or working in cramped or awkward positions.
• Requires climbing vertical ladders of up to 100 feet in height; frequently lifts, positions, and carries items such as bricks, block, stone, mortar, cement, and sand weighing from 50 to 100 pounds.
• Requires working outside during the day or night subject to inclement weather and extreme temperature variations, on high structures usually over water.
• Incumbent is subject to falls, drowning, injury, discomfort, hazardous atmospheres and loud noises.
• Uses safety equipment such as hearing and eye protection, PFDs, hard hats, hard toe shoes, safety belts, respirators, protective clothing and other personal protective equipment.

Job Details:

Company: US Army Corps of Engineers

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Other

Job Location: Louisville, KY, US

Job Category: Government

Application Deadline: N/A

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