Field Unit Local Hiring Authority (FUL) - Maintenance Worker

Department of the Interior National Park Service (57 current openings) Saint John Island, Virgin Islands Full-time Security Clearance: Other
Application Deadline:
2026-08-17
Posted:
2026-08-13

4 days left to apply

Salary: $27.12 – $31.61 per hour (WG-8)

Salary context

Based on 74 hourly jobs in the same occupational series. This role pays around the middle of similar positions.

Job Details

Qualifications & Requirements

To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT) Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation Repair, etc. Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Knowledge of Materials Use of Measuring Instruments Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprints reading) Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic) If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Position Overview

You will serve as a Maintenance Worker. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.

Duties

  • Electrical: Performs electrical tasks such as replacing light switches and household light fixtures, changing light bulbs, and assisting electrician when pulling wire in conduit and installing electric boxes. Masonry: Performs mostly concrete and plaster touch up around existing historic and other masonry structures. Has knowledge of settling, floating and troweling concrete to the finish required. Must be able to prepare a vail with lathing or wire mesh for a fibered plaster or construction plaster (white top). Has experience in mixing masonry cement, sand and water for laying bricks, cinder blocks and flagstone. Uses hand tools relating to plastering and concrete work such as shovels, hoes, trowels of all types, rakes, bull floats, edgers and hawks. Uses gas and electric cement mixers. Engineering Equipment Operation: Working largely without direct supervision, operates and performs minor maintenance on a variety of vehicles such as ten-wheel dump truck, front end loader, bulldozer, hot oil distributor, road brooms, street sweepers, asphalt lay down machine, etc. Operates equipment on flat or rolling terrain, in refuse dumps, and at construction sites with simple terrain problems and performs duties such as plowing snow, spreading road material, hauling materials to job site, loading material on dump truck, removing rockslides, clearing sides of roads, removing hazardous trees, rolling and compacting asphalt and base materials for roads, walks, parking lots, etc. Operates equipment in confined areas. Other Responsibilities: May perform other lower graded duties for 20% or less of the time in performing functions such as painting, plumbing, welding; trails and grounds work; and asphalt work and road maintenance by repairing pavement surfaces, i.e., chuck holes, edge raveling, ruts, bleeding, grade depressions, and makes utility cuts, roads and sign installation. May operate cars and trucks and other equipment such as a Bobcat loader with attachments, front-end loaders, graders and dump trucks.