Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic
- Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
- Hyde Park, New York
- Full Time
Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic
Department of the Interior
Nional Park Service
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
Summary
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site is recruiting for Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic, WG-4749-9.
This position is temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November 2025 through May 2026.
Summary
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site is recruiting for Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic, WG-4749-9.
This position is temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November 2025 through May 2026.
Overview
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Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/01/2025 to 08/15/2025
Salary
$32.20 to - $37.62 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 9
Locion
VAMA
Hyde Park, NY
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Temporary - Not to Exceed 1039 Hours
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
4749 Maintenance Mechanic
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Credentialing
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
Yes
Announcement number
NE-1611-VAMA-12765764-DE
Control number
842226600
This job is open to
Help
The public
U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
WHO MAT APPLY: U.S. Citizens, Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP)
Duties
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The major duties of the Maintenance Mechanic, include but are not limited to the following:
Perform a variety of preventive maintenance tasks such as plumbing, electrical, painting, and other reled trades required in maintenance and repair of buildings, structures, fixtures, and reled property.
Perform plumbing work involving maintenance and repair of a wide variety of piping, plumbing fixtures (lavories, commodes, sink, disposals, bhtubs and shower fixtures).
Makes electrical repairs by removing and replacing defective parts such as incandescent and fluorescent fixtures, receptacles, switches, pull chains, covers, ballasts, starters, sockets, door ball buttons, transformers, and other items reled to the installed system.
Determine merials and tools needed to perform routine maintenance and repairs to facilities, structures, equipment and reled fixtures.
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship required.
Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion.
Meet Selective Service Registrion Act requirement for males.
Required to participe in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
You required to opere a government (or prive) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operor's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a Ste sealed envelope or submitted directly by the Ste authorities), and your own expense, all certified driving records from all Stes th disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
You required to wear a uniform and comply with the Nional Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance provided.
Applicants must be least (1)18 years old or (2) least 16 years old and: (a) Have gradued from high school or been awarded a certifice equivalent to graduing from high school; or (b) Have completed a formal vocional training program; or (c) Have received a stement from school authorities agreeing with their preference for employment rher than continuing their educion; or (d) Be currently enrolled in a secondary school and either work only during school vacion periods or work part-time during the school year under a formal student employment program.
Government housing maybe available.
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-reled factors:
Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion Repair, etc.
Knowledge of Merials
Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
Use of Measuring Instruments
If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further considerion. In preparing your applicion, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had th 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 qualificions 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-reled factors.
Volunteer Experience : Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Educion
There is no substitution of educion for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.
Additional informion
These positions are temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November through May but can be variable during these months due to weher conditions, project needs, or funding.
Travel, transportion & relocion expenses will not be paid. Relocion expenses the employee's responsibility.
This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue de of the referral certifice.
A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher re of pay.
Employment may be termined any time due to fluctuions in funding levels, project needs, employee performance, or other considerions.
Physical Demands: Physical effort is heavy to modere, and requires occasional lifting or handling of objects or merials up to 50 pounds, unassisted, following proper lifting procedures to avoid injury. Frequently required to stand while working, climb ladders or scaffolding, and bend, stoop, climb, and work in awkward positions.
Working Conditions: Exposed to a variety of seasonal weher conditions while working outdoors (temperures -40 to 90+ degrees). Subject to danger of falling from ladders or scaffolding. Exposed to dust, dirt, wind, and rain. May work with dangerous chemicals and around moving equipment, paints, solvents, etc. May be exposed to electrical shocks, and biting insects.
Non-Competitive Rehire Eligibility: Effective May 26, 2018, please note th a temporary seasonal employee can only maintain their non-competitive rehire eligibility if they work no more than a combined total of 1,039 hours anywhere in the Nional Park Service (NPS) within their established service year. Accordingly, non-competitive rehire eligibility allows for re-appointment to the same position or another position approprie for temporary appointment with the same qualificion requirements (5 CFR 316.402[b][7]), based on series and grade, anywhere in the major subdivision (NPS).
If you have held a temporary seasonal appointment in the past 12 months, and have already worked the maximum 1,039 hours during th period, you are still welcome to apply. However, please be aware th exceeding the limit of 1,039 hours in your established service year will result in the loss of your non-competitive rehire eligibility.
The limit can be exceeded by working multiple temporary seasonal positions th result in a combined total greer than 1,039 hours. The limit also can be exceeded by working a single temporary seasonal appointment th exceeds 1,039 hours, unless granted an exception by OPM.
The Nional Park Service has determined th the duties of this position are not suitable for telework.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
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How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.
A review of your resume and supporting documention made and compared against your responses to the Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Assessment Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documention, you red 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score adjusted accordingly. If a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions or experience, you can lose considerion for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions can affect your ring.
Candides red and ranked using Cegory Ring procedures. These procedures place candides with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each cegory. Veterans with a service connected disability of least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality cegory. Under Cegory Ring, candides red and ranked into one of three cegories:
Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience th substantially exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position
Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience th exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job
Qualified - applicants possessing experience th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
You evalued on the following competencies:
Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion Repair, etc.
Knowledge of merials
Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
Use of Measuring Instruments
Benefits
Help
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
Required documents
Required Documents
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The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on the ' applicant cut-off ' de (which may be sooner than 08/15/2025):
Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des specified in month and year form, and, indice hours worked per week . If military or civilian (current or former), please include your rank and/or grade.
A complete Occupional Questionnaire
Other Supporting Documents , if applicable, such as:
Veterans Preference Documention :
If you are a Discharged, Non-Disabled Veteran , you must submit a copy of your DD-214 showing character of discharge (Member 4 copy), or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you don't have your DD-214, you may request it after discharge from the Nional Archives .
If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge , you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion.
If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Mother or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran , you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15 . You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.ebenefits.va.gov or call ... to establish proof of disability.
Documention for Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan considerion if you are a displaced Federal employee within the local commuting area. You must include: 1) Proof you are a displaced Federal employee, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be red well-qualified or above 85 on the ring criteria for this position.
Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices.
How to Apply
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To apply for this position: You must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 08/15/2025). You must provide documention to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documention listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the approprie informion. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.
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Select or add the resume you want to use for this applicion. Click here on how to build a resume in USAJOBS .
Select documents you want included in this applicion.
Review package to acknowledge your documents were reviewed.
Select if you want to include your demographic informion.
After reading and certifying the applicion is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site."
Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your applicion.
Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown.
Upload any missing required documents or optional documents.
Review and Submit Applicion.
While logged in, you can check the stus of your applicion by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position.
You can review or revise your applicion any point during the open period of the announcement.
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Note: When you click Upde Applicion , you prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first applicion will no longer be associed with the applicant record. So it is important th you select all documents you want to use in the re-applicion.
Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive considerion for special priority selection. Well qualified means th the applicant meets the following: OPM qualificion standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions th OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodion, where approprie to sisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is red by the organizion least the well qualified level on all competencies. Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof th they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(2) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent Performance Ring, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion. Please annote your applicion to reflect th you are applying as a CTAP/ICTAP eligible. If you are selected for Federal employment, you required to fill out a Declarion of Federal Employment, OF-306, prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigion. Failing to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false stements on your applicion may be grounds for not hiring you, or for firing you after you begin work. Also, you may be punished by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, section 1001).
Agency contact informion
Felecia Burns-Fleming
...
Address
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
4097 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
US
Next steps
Once the Occupional Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement th your submission was successful.
If you can go back to the Applicion section of your USAJOBS account, your applicion stus will say Received if the applicion went through. Please note, this process may take several hours to reflect this stus. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents are uploaded and legible.
If you are among the most qualified candides and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You notified of the stus of your Applicion Package the time candides are referred for considerion, and when the selection process is complete.
Alternively, you can always check the stus of your applicion in your USAJOBS profile.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
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The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on the ' applicant cut-off ' de (which may be sooner than 08/15/2025):
Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des specified in month and year form, and, indice hours worked per week . If military or civilian (current or former), please include your rank and/or grade.
A complete Occupional Questionnaire
Other Supporting Documents , if applicable, such as:
Veterans Preference Documention :
If you are a Discharged, Non-Disabled Veteran , you must submit a copy of your DD-214 showing character of discharge (Member 4 copy), or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you don't have your DD-214, you may request it after discharge from the Nional Archives .
If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge , you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion.
If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Mother or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran , you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15 . You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.ebenefits.va.gov or call ... to establish proof of disability.
Documention for Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan considerion if you are a displaced Federal employee within the local commuting area. You must include: 1) Proof you are a displaced Federal employee, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be red well-qualified or above 85 on the ring criteria for this position.
Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices.
How to Apply
Help
To apply for this position: You must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 08/15/2025). You must provide documention to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documention listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the approprie informion. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.
Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you prompted to login or cree an account .
Prompted to Start the Applicion Process by selecting "Start Applicion."
Click here for USAJobs Help with "How to cree an applicion"
To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link:
Select or add the resume you want to use for this applicion. Click here on how to build a resume in USAJOBS .
Select documents you want included in this applicion.
Review package to acknowledge your documents were reviewed.
Select if you want to include your demographic informion.
After reading and certifying the applicion is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site."
Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your applicion.
Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown.
Upload any missing required documents or optional documents.
Review and Submit Applicion.
While logged in, you can check the stus of your applicion by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position.
You can review or revise your applicion any point during the open period of the announcement.
To upde an applicion, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Upde Applicion" for this job.
Note: When you click Upde Applicion , you prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first applicion will no longer be associed with the applicant record. So it is important th you select all documents you want to use in the re-applicion.
Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive considerion for special priority selection. Well qualified means th the applicant meets the following: OPM qualificion standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions th OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodion, where approprie to sisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is red by the organizion least the well qualified level on all competencies. Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof th they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(2) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent Performance Ring, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion. Please annote your applicion to reflect th you are applying as a CTAP/ICTAP eligible. If you are selected for Federal employment, you required to fill out a Declarion of Federal Employment, OF-306, prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigion. Failing to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false stements on your applicion may be grounds for not hiring you, or for firing you after you begin work. Also, you may be punished by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, section 1001).
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Agency contact informion
Felecia Burns-Fleming
...
Address
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
4097 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
US
Next steps
Once the Occupional Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement th your submission was successful.
If you can go back to the Applicion section of your USAJOBS account, your applicion stus will say Received if the applicion went through. Please note, this process may take several hours to reflect this stus. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents are uploaded and legible.
If you are among the most qualified candides and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You notified of the stus of your Applicion Package the time candides are referred for considerion, and when the selection process is complete.
Alternively, you can always check the stus of your applicion in your USAJOBS profile.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 08/01/2025 to 08/15/2025 Salary $32.20 to - $37.62 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 9 Locion VAMA Hyde Park, NY 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary - Not to Exceed 1039 Hours Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number NE-1611-VAMA-12765764-DE Control number 842226600
Department of the Interior
Nional Park Service
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
Summary
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site is recruiting for Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic, WG-4749-9.
This position is temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November 2025 through May 2026.
Summary
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site is recruiting for Seasonal Maintenance Mechanic, WG-4749-9.
This position is temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November 2025 through May 2026.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/01/2025 to 08/15/2025
Salary
$32.20 to - $37.62 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 9
Locion
VAMA
Hyde Park, NY
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Temporary - Not to Exceed 1039 Hours
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
4749 Maintenance Mechanic
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Credentialing
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
Yes
Announcement number
NE-1611-VAMA-12765764-DE
Control number
842226600
This job is open to
Help
The public
U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
WHO MAT APPLY: U.S. Citizens, Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP)
Duties
Help
The major duties of the Maintenance Mechanic, include but are not limited to the following:
Perform a variety of preventive maintenance tasks such as plumbing, electrical, painting, and other reled trades required in maintenance and repair of buildings, structures, fixtures, and reled property.
Perform plumbing work involving maintenance and repair of a wide variety of piping, plumbing fixtures (lavories, commodes, sink, disposals, bhtubs and shower fixtures).
Makes electrical repairs by removing and replacing defective parts such as incandescent and fluorescent fixtures, receptacles, switches, pull chains, covers, ballasts, starters, sockets, door ball buttons, transformers, and other items reled to the installed system.
Determine merials and tools needed to perform routine maintenance and repairs to facilities, structures, equipment and reled fixtures.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship required.
Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion.
Meet Selective Service Registrion Act requirement for males.
Required to participe in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
You required to opere a government (or prive) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operor's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a Ste sealed envelope or submitted directly by the Ste authorities), and your own expense, all certified driving records from all Stes th disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
You required to wear a uniform and comply with the Nional Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance provided.
Applicants must be least (1)18 years old or (2) least 16 years old and: (a) Have gradued from high school or been awarded a certifice equivalent to graduing from high school; or (b) Have completed a formal vocional training program; or (c) Have received a stement from school authorities agreeing with their preference for employment rher than continuing their educion; or (d) Be currently enrolled in a secondary school and either work only during school vacion periods or work part-time during the school year under a formal student employment program.
Government housing maybe available.
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-reled factors:
Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)
Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion Repair, etc.
Knowledge of Merials
Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
Use of Measuring Instruments
If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further considerion. In preparing your applicion, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had th 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 qualificions 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-reled factors.
Volunteer Experience : Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Educion
There is no substitution of educion for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.
Additional informion
These positions are temporary, seasonal NTE 1039-hour appointments. The defined season is from November through May but can be variable during these months due to weher conditions, project needs, or funding.
Travel, transportion & relocion expenses will not be paid. Relocion expenses the employee's responsibility.
This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue de of the referral certifice.
A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher re of pay.
Employment may be termined any time due to fluctuions in funding levels, project needs, employee performance, or other considerions.
Physical Demands: Physical effort is heavy to modere, and requires occasional lifting or handling of objects or merials up to 50 pounds, unassisted, following proper lifting procedures to avoid injury. Frequently required to stand while working, climb ladders or scaffolding, and bend, stoop, climb, and work in awkward positions.
Working Conditions: Exposed to a variety of seasonal weher conditions while working outdoors (temperures -40 to 90+ degrees). Subject to danger of falling from ladders or scaffolding. Exposed to dust, dirt, wind, and rain. May work with dangerous chemicals and around moving equipment, paints, solvents, etc. May be exposed to electrical shocks, and biting insects.
Non-Competitive Rehire Eligibility: Effective May 26, 2018, please note th a temporary seasonal employee can only maintain their non-competitive rehire eligibility if they work no more than a combined total of 1,039 hours anywhere in the Nional Park Service (NPS) within their established service year. Accordingly, non-competitive rehire eligibility allows for re-appointment to the same position or another position approprie for temporary appointment with the same qualificion requirements (5 CFR 316.402[b][7]), based on series and grade, anywhere in the major subdivision (NPS).
If you have held a temporary seasonal appointment in the past 12 months, and have already worked the maximum 1,039 hours during th period, you are still welcome to apply. However, please be aware th exceeding the limit of 1,039 hours in your established service year will result in the loss of your non-competitive rehire eligibility.
The limit can be exceeded by working multiple temporary seasonal positions th result in a combined total greer than 1,039 hours. The limit also can be exceeded by working a single temporary seasonal appointment th exceeds 1,039 hours, unless granted an exception by OPM.
The Nional Park Service has determined th the duties of this position are not suitable for telework.
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Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.
A review of your resume and supporting documention made and compared against your responses to the Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Assessment Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documention, you red 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score adjusted accordingly. If a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions or experience, you can lose considerion for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions can affect your ring.
Candides red and ranked using Cegory Ring procedures. These procedures place candides with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each cegory. Veterans with a service connected disability of least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality cegory. Under Cegory Ring, candides red and ranked into one of three cegories:
Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience th substantially exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position
Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience th exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job
Qualified - applicants possessing experience th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
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Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificion, etc. (includes blueprints reading)
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Knowledge of merials
Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)
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The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on the ' applicant cut-off ' de (which may be sooner than 08/15/2025):
Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des specified in month and year form, and, indice hours worked per week . If military or civilian (current or former), please include your rank and/or grade.
A complete Occupional Questionnaire
Other Supporting Documents , if applicable, such as:
Veterans Preference Documention :
If you are a Discharged, Non-Disabled Veteran , you must submit a copy of your DD-214 showing character of discharge (Member 4 copy), or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you don't have your DD-214, you may request it after discharge from the Nional Archives .
If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge , you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion.
If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Mother or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran , you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15 . You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.ebenefits.va.gov or call ... to establish proof of disability.
Documention for Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan considerion if you are a displaced Federal employee within the local commuting area. You must include: 1) Proof you are a displaced Federal employee, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be red well-qualified or above 85 on the ring criteria for this position.
Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices.
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To apply for this position: You must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 08/15/2025). You must provide documention to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documention listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the approprie informion. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.
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Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive considerion for special priority selection. Well qualified means th the applicant meets the following: OPM qualificion standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions th OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodion, where approprie to sisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is red by the organizion least the well qualified level on all competencies. Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof th they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(2) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent Performance Ring, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion. Please annote your applicion to reflect th you are applying as a CTAP/ICTAP eligible. If you are selected for Federal employment, you required to fill out a Declarion of Federal Employment, OF-306, prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigion. Failing to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false stements on your applicion may be grounds for not hiring you, or for firing you after you begin work. Also, you may be punished by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, section 1001).
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Felecia Burns-Fleming
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Address
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
4097 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
US
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Once the Occupional Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement th your submission was successful.
If you can go back to the Applicion section of your USAJOBS account, your applicion stus will say Received if the applicion went through. Please note, this process may take several hours to reflect this stus. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents are uploaded and legible.
If you are among the most qualified candides and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You notified of the stus of your Applicion Package the time candides are referred for considerion, and when the selection process is complete.
Alternively, you can always check the stus of your applicion in your USAJOBS profile.
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The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
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Selective Service
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Required Documents
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The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on the ' applicant cut-off ' de (which may be sooner than 08/15/2025):
Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des specified in month and year form, and, indice hours worked per week . If military or civilian (current or former), please include your rank and/or grade.
A complete Occupional Questionnaire
Other Supporting Documents , if applicable, such as:
Veterans Preference Documention :
If you are a Discharged, Non-Disabled Veteran , you must submit a copy of your DD-214 showing character of discharge (Member 4 copy), or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you don't have your DD-214, you may request it after discharge from the Nional Archives .
If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge , you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion.
If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Mother or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran , you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15 . You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.ebenefits.va.gov or call ... to establish proof of disability.
Documention for Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan considerion if you are a displaced Federal employee within the local commuting area. You must include: 1) Proof you are a displaced Federal employee, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be red well-qualified or above 85 on the ring criteria for this position.
Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc.
Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices.
How to Apply
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To apply for this position: You must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 08/15/2025). You must provide documention to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documention listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the approprie informion. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.
Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you prompted to login or cree an account .
Prompted to Start the Applicion Process by selecting "Start Applicion."
Click here for USAJobs Help with "How to cree an applicion"
To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link:
Select or add the resume you want to use for this applicion. Click here on how to build a resume in USAJOBS .
Select documents you want included in this applicion.
Review package to acknowledge your documents were reviewed.
Select if you want to include your demographic informion.
After reading and certifying the applicion is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site."
Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your applicion.
Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown.
Upload any missing required documents or optional documents.
Review and Submit Applicion.
While logged in, you can check the stus of your applicion by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position.
You can review or revise your applicion any point during the open period of the announcement.
To upde an applicion, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Upde Applicion" for this job.
Note: When you click Upde Applicion , you prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first applicion will no longer be associed with the applicant record. So it is important th you select all documents you want to use in the re-applicion.
Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive considerion for special priority selection. Well qualified means th the applicant meets the following: OPM qualificion standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions th OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodion, where approprie to sisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is red by the organizion least the well qualified level on all competencies. Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof th they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(2) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent Performance Ring, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion. Please annote your applicion to reflect th you are applying as a CTAP/ICTAP eligible. If you are selected for Federal employment, you required to fill out a Declarion of Federal Employment, OF-306, prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigion. Failing to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false stements on your applicion may be grounds for not hiring you, or for firing you after you begin work. Also, you may be punished by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, section 1001).
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Agency contact informion
Felecia Burns-Fleming
...
Address
Vanderbilt Mansion Nional Historic Site
4097 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
US
Next steps
Once the Occupional Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement th your submission was successful.
If you can go back to the Applicion section of your USAJOBS account, your applicion stus will say Received if the applicion went through. Please note, this process may take several hours to reflect this stus. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents are uploaded and legible.
If you are among the most qualified candides and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You notified of the stus of your Applicion Package the time candides are referred for considerion, and when the selection process is complete.
Alternively, you can always check the stus of your applicion in your USAJOBS profile.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 08/01/2025 to 08/15/2025 Salary $32.20 to - $37.62 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 9 Locion VAMA Hyde Park, NY 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary - Not to Exceed 1039 Hours Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number NE-1611-VAMA-12765764-DE Control number 842226600
Job ID: 487966372
Originally Posted on: 8/3/2025
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