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Current job openings are listed below.
Current Job Opportunities
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Maintenance Mechanic Open Period: 7/11/24 to 7/24/24 Series and Grade: WG 4749 10 Salary: $33.54 - $39.18 per hour Location(s): Staten Island Units Who Can Apply: All current or former career/career-conditional federal employees with competitive/reinstatement eligibility; Eligible applicants under: Veterans' Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA); CTAP/ICTAP within the local commuting area; Special Hiring Authorities; Current or former time-limited employees under PL-114-47, Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA); Public Land Corps (PLC) members. More details can be found on the job announcement. Job Description:
Experience must be demonstrated in at least two of the following trades:
Masonry: Independently plan and layout masonry work. Maintain, construct, repair, and alter masonry structures.
Electrical: Performs all preventative maintenance, operational checks, repair, layout, installation, troubleshooting, tracing, locating defects, modification on and new and existing secondary electrical systems from transformers to final connections park wide.
Plumbing: Installs, modifies, and repairs new and existing utility, supply, and disposal systems and equipment such as sewage, water, oil, and gas distribution systems and water closets, tubs, fire sprinkler systems, and showers, and lay out of such things as angles, arcs, and circles
Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic: Provides support in the areas of operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of the large and complex systems utilized for air conditioning and heating various historic and non-historic buildings.
Utilities Systems Repair-Operator: Work independently to troubleshoot, repair, modify, overhaul, test, calibrate and install a variety of multi-component industrial and precision instruments and equipment.
Engineering Equipment Operator Serves as a primary equipment operator. Operates one or more types of gasoline/diesel powered wheeled or crawler-type engineering and construction equipment with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of 72,000 pounds to push, pull, move, transport, or load earth, gravel, sand, supplies, materials, equipment and refuse.
Laborer
Open Period: 2/12/24 to 8/12/24 Series and Grade: WG 3502 3 Salary: $21.57 - $25.18 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay andSandy Hook Units Who Can Apply: The public Job Description:
Operate heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand tools (such as shovels, rakes, lawn edging equipment, etc,;) to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, and trails, etc.
Load and unload supplies and material from trucks, trailers, dollie, etc.
Move furniture, remove and set signs, paint picnic tables and signs, rake and water lawns, trim trees and shrubs, pick up litter, and clean fire pits.
Dig ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads.
Move heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; utilize heavy type power mowers including adjusting, cleaning, and oiling blades.
This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.
Seasonal Laborer (MVO)
Open Period: 1/29/24 to 7/29/24 Series and Grade: WG 3502 4 Salary: $24.14 - $27 per hour Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units Who Can Apply: The public Job Description:
Operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, brush cutters, brush chippers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand and light power tools (such as shovels, pulaskis, picks, digging bars, rakes, lawn edging equipment, electric drills, etc.), to maintain buildings,
grounds, roads, trails, etc.
Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes and sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, cleans and repairs fire pits.
Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads
Operates and performs minor operator maintenance on light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, carryalls, sedans, crew cab pickup trucks, which typically have an approximate gross vehicle weight of up to 4500 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules and standard routes to transport personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools throughout the park under limited traffic conditions at low speeds.
Performs janitorial duties for buildings and grounds when required
This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.
