Maintenance Mechanic Leader

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Lead the station's safety program for all maintenance operations, conducting safety briefings and hazard assessments, serving as a safety instructor, enforcing PPE and operational limits, maintaining OSHA-audit-ready safety documentation, and tracking team compliance with the Hearing Conservation Program, including annual audiometric testing and ensuring availability of required PPE.

Lead and coordinate maintenance crews across all refuge units, assigning tasks, setting the pace, directing daily work activities, verifying quality and timeliness, coordinating equipment and vehicle sharing, reporting work status and delays, and ensuring co-equal attention to tasks and needs across all O'ahu refuge units.

Plan, lay out, and complete preventive and deferred maintenance on facilities and real property assets, independently interpreting drawings and blueprints, and performing multi-trade work including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, roofing, concrete, HVAC, welding, painting, and similar maintenance responsibilities from initial layout through completion.

Operate heavy equipment, CDL vehicles, and agricultural tractors with mowing implements, executing small-to-medium earth-moving and vegetation-management projects, transporting equipment between refuge units, maneuvering in close tolerances, securing cargo and selecting safe, legal routes, and performing mowing and related operations typical of year-round tropical growth conditions.

Operate, maintain, and adjust water-control structures; manage wetland and upland habitat conditions; repair and replace fencing and gates; and conduct mechanical and chemical invasive plant control, ensuring all pesticide or herbicide applications, storage, and disposal follow applicable Federal and Staterequirements.

Manage maintenance administration and documentation, supporting budget tracking, ensuring proper disposition of purchase and fuel receipts, maintaining project and equipment records, collecting and entering monthly fleet and heavy-equipment utilization data, balancing substantial office-based computer work with field duties, serving as the primary point of contact with the Regional Fleet and Heavy Equipment Manager, and supporting annual deferred-maintenance funding prioritization processes.

Provide training, mentoring, and qualification tracking for maintenance personnel, conducting equipment-operation and safety training as authorized (including agricultural tractors, skid steers, excavators, and forklifts), maintaining accurate records of team member training qualifications, monitoring re-training cycles, and providing general mentorship to staff, volunteers, and youth participants.

Support procurement and contract oversight in alignment with agency policy, preparing purchase requests, performing purchase card transactions and reconciliations, securing materials and supplies, assisting with contractor oversight, and-when authorized and qualified-performing collateral duties related to contract administration, including serving as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to ensure contracted services and materials meet required specifications.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/05/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.

To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability to Lead or Supervise (SCREEN OUT) Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair, etc. Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, 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.

Your resume must support your response to the assessment questionnaire, and if it does not, your application will be marked as not eligible. 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.

You must meet at least 2 points on the screen-out element(s) and obtain an average of at least 2 points on all of the job elements to be considered qualified for this position.

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.