In this position you will work as a member of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Facilities Management Division, Operations Branch. Come join us in a rewarding career where you can help make our nation safer, stronger, and more prepared! Visit www.careers.fema.gov for more information.
All MWEOC staff have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place. Exercises and activations are planned and unplanned, and may require long hours, nights, weekends and holidays. All MWEOC employees are: (1) required to use a government-issued electronic device (to include cellular phones); (2) subject to recall during emergency situations; and (3) required to perform work in locations both above and below ground. What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Utility Systems Repairer-Operator responsible for monitoring, operating, and repairing site utility systems. Typical assignments include: Monitoring a variety of systems using computer monitoring systems at a large, complex facility. Systems include electric power generation and distribution; uninterrupted power supplies; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; lighting and environmental building controls; drinking water plant and distribution; and waste-water treatment plant. Monitoring alarms, diagnoses, and troubleshoots equipment alarms and malfunctions, takes corrective actions to address issues on remote equipment. Monitoring and controlling the site primary electrical distribution system connecting numerous substations and switching stations, presenting many alternate routing possibilities, including commercial power and diesel back up power generating plant. Operating a large, centralized, multiple zone system, and monitoring and operating multiple smaller independent systems, check temperature sensing points in the buildings, adjust controls, start, regulate, stop air handling equipment, and reset temperature controls and humidity controls. Recognizing the cause of faulty equipment and making repairs on large systems that provide for a variety of air conditioning functions such as heating, cooling, humidifying, dehumidifying, cleaning, filtering, and circulating. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions. Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.
No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.
sherry.cook@fema.dhs.gov 771-202-0559
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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