Workshop Mechanic

Workshop Mechanic

General Info

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. - National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility: Manhattan, Kansas

Pay: $32.98/hr. plus fringe benefit of $9.87/hr.

Hours: Monday to Friday - Time TBD

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Benefit - 401(k) with match
• Disability Insurance

Job Description

The candidate will work closely with the Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor of the Work Shops Group and staff in planning the day-to-day activities which involve maintaining, repairing and alterations of facilities. This involves working with a variety of equipment to ensure safe and proper operations.

Electrical: Performs maintenance and repair of electrical wiring systems, related switches, distribution panels, and controllers. Inspects, maintains, cleans, troubleshoots, repairs, tests, and adjusts a wide variety of electrical equipment, components, tools, and appliances. All work must comply with the National Electric Code. Following maintenance schedules, inspections, or work orders, performs maintenance services, diagnoses system or equipment malfunction and makes repairs as necessary. Troubleshoots malfunctioning equipment and performs inspections of the electrical equipment to eliminate any possible hazards and to ensure that electrical installations are kept in proper condition for maximum service. Rewires electrical systems and lighting systems, circuits, and essential wiring, including all types of switches, multi-breakers, panels and switchgear, as needed. The work involves industrial and research related circuitry. Performs duties from layouts prepared personally, uses building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawing, repair manual and electrical codes.

There are a large number of diversified electrical equipment and components that are beyond the normal building electrical hardware and must be maintained at all times. Tests circuits and equipment by use of voltmeter, amp meter, wattmeter, meggers, ohmmeter, capacitor tests, and oscilloscope. Measures, cuts, threads, bends, assembles, and installs conduits, inserting, splicing, and connecting wires to fixtures, outlets, switches, receptacles, and power source. Removes and replaces obsolete equipment and components. Makes alterations to basic equipment as required. Installs, tests, maintains, adjusts, and repairs electrical controllers.

Pneudraulic Systems and other Industrial Equipment: Representative examples of equipment worked on are security gates, Pneumatic seal APR doors and hardware, Fire doors, hydraulic ballads, drop down gates, tornado doors, appliances, refrigerators, water filters, ice machines, autoclaves, and overhead doors. Examines equipment to determine extent of repair required, disassembles a variety of equipment, requisitions parts, repairs or replaces damaged parts or components, reassembles equipment, and performs a final operational check-out to assure that equipment functions properly. Inspects, maintains, and repairs all components of the pneumatic APR door system. Works from plans, sketches, and detailed specifications.

Diagnoses, repairs, and tests various complex hydraulic and pneumatic components such as hydromechanical fuel control subassemblies, pressure regulators, fuel booster pumps, speed controls, and water injection pumps. Makes qualitative evaluations of internal seals and leak rates of components, checking all parts for critical dimensions, analyzing the causes of failures and making necessary repairs and adjustments to render the components serviceable within required specifications.

Maintains information of the refrigeration cycle of a variety of refrigeration and air conditioning systems to make checks for proper functioning and required repair.

Diagnoses, repairs and maintains industrial air conditioning and refrigeration units and systems, water filters, and ice machines, and monitors refrigeration cycle and temperature measurements.

Repairs a wide variety of other complex machinery and equipment and in the use of various machining tools to accomplish repairs. As required, fabricates replacement parts which are not readily available, and ensures related electrical fixtures are installed and operating correctly. This may further involve replacing fixtures and controls and making wiring repairs. Uses related hand tools and testing equipment.

Plumbing: Maintains and repairs new and existing utility, supply, and disposal systems on equipment including water and steam service systems. This involves removing, cleaning, replacing, packing, and sealing defective parts of utility, supply, steam, and disposal systems such as steam traps, sections of broken pipe and tile, clogged pipe and fixtures, and leaky faucets and drains. Installs equipment by completing the routing and placement of systems leading to the equipment, and seating, hooking up, and testing the equipment. Repairs pressure reducing valves, circulating pumps, laundry tubs, urinals, dishwasher, sump pumps, and water closets. Selects proper tools for repairs. Shuts off proper valves in selected sites when repairs cannot be completed at that given time. Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and layout the routing, placement, slant, slope, fall and proper operation of systems and equipment.

Carpentry: Constructs, alters, repairs or modifies items and structures such as framework, doors, finished paneling, windows, interior and exterior trim, forms, and siding. Selects proper materials and installs wooden partitions; cuts lumber to size and shape; drills hole, levels edges; and assembles clamps, nails, screws, glue, etc. Uses tools associated with the carpentry and building trades and ensures proper care, maintenance, and storage of the tools is used. Uses a variety of measuring tools and math to determine dimensions, angles, volumes, circumstances, depths, heights and lengths. Plans and completes the work from initial layout to final assembly or installation. Estimates amounts of material required for a project, using mathematical calculations. Uses verbal, written and electronic instructions, arithmetic, shop drawings, sketches, blueprints, engineered drawings, and trade formulas to help complete projects. Ensures the structural soundness, appearance, integrity, and quality of work completed in compliance with building codes.

Painting: Paints interior and exterior of buildings and facilities with brush and paint sprayer using commercial paints, preservative compounds and epoxies. Using arithmetic, work orders or oral instructions, determines the surfaces and coating materials to use. Prepares various surfaces for coating work using standard methods such as sanding, scraping, wire brushing, caulking and sealing, buffing and cleaning and assures protection of surrounding areas. Tapes and floats sheetrock prior to coating. Applies various types of coating materials (e.g., paints, varnishes, and shellacs) including those designed to give special effects using brushing, rolling and spraying. Uses, maintains and secures tools and equipment, including scrapers, wire brushes, putty knives, sandpaper, paintbrushes, rollers, and spray guns. Ensures surfaces are fully coated, protected, and free from drips and runs. Cleans up work area, tools and equipment.

Welding: Uses electric, acetylene and/or inert gas shielded welding processes. Makes a wide range of welds from simple to precision welding, determining disassembly or repair necessary and materials to be used. Plans, lays out work, positions and clamps work, pre-heating metal, and maintains temperature to prevent distortion. Develops own work drawings for projects for which no blueprints or sketches are available. Uses templates, jigs, blueprints, and other guides to repair, modify or fabricate metal items for all types of equipment, including repair of light or intricately made mechanical parts, which must fit in assemblies where close tolerances are required. Works with light, heavy gauge and hardened metals, welding all the various types of weldable items assigned, using flat, vertical, horizontal, and overhead positions. Work processes include pre-heating, brazing, bead welding, tack welding, flame cutting, pressure welding, and heat treating; selection of type of rod and size of tip to accomplish weld, determining heat necessary, setting up and adjusting equipment, maintaining proper speed, flame, motion, tip angle and position to produce desired results. Determines the kinds and types of materials, equipment and tools (such as electric resistance welding machines including spot, seam and flash or manual gas torch welding process) needed to complete assignments. If proposed materials are not readily available and not specifically stated, substitutes materials on own initiative.

Other: Completes service requests and workorders in a CMMS system, maintains equipment in the shop area and assures necessary shop supplies are available. Uses CMMS to track and order inventory for completing projects.

Works with other FOMU and personnel on contracts and other facilities issues."

Observes all safety and security regulations and protocols and ensures adherence to conduct, safety, fire, care of equipment, housekeeping rules and regulations.

Operates a truck with aerial manlift and other equipment such as forklifts as well as various government-owned vehicles for official purposes.

Requirements:

• Employees may be subject to immunization and testing requirements pursuant to Client and current Company requirements.
• Employees must meet the requirements of the federal credentialing process to access the facility, which includes but is not limited to, obtaining facility access (aka PIV card, smart card, access card, badge) and meeting ongoing training and access requirements.
• Employees may be required to participate in the select agent program which would include additional background investigations, training, and performing work in a bio containment facility, as well as meeting ongoing program requirements to maintain eligibility and compliance.

Company Info

Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. (www.fseinc.net) is a 350-associate facilities management firm. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, FSE offers a very stable work environment. Our goal of 35+ years remains the same: satisfy the customer and continuously improve. If you are looking for a nurturing company that puts the customer and the employee first, then please submit your resume for consideration.

• All resumes will be kept in strict confidence
• We are an institutional, commercial, full-facility operation and maintenance contractor and equal opportunity employer: including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

Mission Statement

In a corporate culture of positive reinforcement, we will produce excellence by continuously finding better ways to serve our client as we would wish to be served.

Vision Statement

In a nurturing corporate climate where families are valued and continuous improvement is a way of life, we will treat our customer and our fellow employees as we would wish to be treated so that we will continue to be our customer's contractor of choice.

• Must be authorized to work in the US
• No relocation assistance is available
• Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. is a federal contractor and is required to comply with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 (which supersedes state laws to include cannabis). Employment is contingent on passing a 10-panel pre-employment drug screen, random drug and alcohol screenings, and background/reference checks.