This position is located in the Facilities Management Services at the Bedford VA Healthcare System in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is permanent and full-time at 40 hours per week.
This position performs work involved with repairing, overhauling, modifying, testing, and installing a variety of locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations.
Duties include, but are not limited to: Manufactures and duplicates keys and the keying and combination of locking mechanisms; Establishes master keying systems and neutralizes lockouts; Determines precise locations and angles for drilling without harming the contents or causing irrevocable damage to the locking mechanisms or containers; Designs and installs locks and integrated locking systems (e.g.
including electronic panic button interfaces, etc.); Uses a variety of tools and skills to work with total accuracy to preclude the destruction of expensive security systems or safes vaults; Disassembles repairs, cleans, reassembles and reinstalls a large variety of moderate to extremely complex locking devices; Reads, interprets, and applies technical manuals, manufacturer's diagrams/specifications and prepares diagrams to identify dimensions or special parts requirements; Provides technical assistance and guidance to remote customer locations and to lower graded/less experienced locksmithing personnel; Troubleshoots to determine malfunctioning components and repairs by reworking existing parts based on knowledge of internal structure plus the operating characteristics of a wide range of models and of their working interrelationship with related components; and Performs other duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:30am to 3:00pm Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not authorized. Position Description Title/PD#: Locksmith/PD024260 Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required Notifications: Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.
Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is covered by a special rate.
Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System.
Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment. The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's.
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Junelle.gabriel@va.gov · 646 830 4392
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $35.4 – $41.31/hr.
Applications close on 2026-10-02.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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