Maintenance Worker
Smithsonian Institution
Summary
The Maintenance Worker will perform a variety of duties involved in the maintenance of the office complexes, laborories, machine and automotive shops, dormitories, telescope buildings, and other ancillary structures FLWO th are in 24 hour, 365 day/year operion; and the infrastructure associed with a remote site locion including the mountain road and wer storage systems.
Summary
The Maintenance Worker will perform a variety of duties involved in the maintenance of the office complexes, laborories, machine and automotive shops, dormitories, telescope buildings, and other ancillary structures FLWO th are in 24 hour, 365 day/year operion; and the infrastructure associed with a remote site locion including the mountain road and wer storage systems.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/13/2025 to 09/12/2025
Salary
$27.03 to - $31.52 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 08
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Amado, AZ
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - Infrequent travel, such as for specialized training, may be required.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent - Career/Career-Conditional.
Work schedule
Full-time - Full Time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
08
Job family (Series)
4749 Maintenance Mechanic
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Announcement number
25-114
Control number
843262000
This job is open to
Help
The public
U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Clarificion from the agency
This position is open to all U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nionals.
Federal employees with permanent stus or individuals eligible for special appointing authorities may also apply to Job Announcement 25-115.
Duties
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1. Performs a variety of duties in support of scientific projects and facilities and maintenance of the Observory's buildings, infrastructure, grounds, and mountain road, including the following:
Painting: Performs spray or brush painting of walls, ceilings, exterior of buildings, doors, window frames, siding, and trim. Masks surfaces preparory to painting. Applies specialized coings to roofs.
Carpentry: Performs rough or simple type carpentry in the repair and maintenance of buildings and reled furnishings or structures. Duties may include framing, box construction, and concrete forms, making minor repairs such as replacing broken boards, nailing down loose wall siding, and caulking doors and window sills.
Welding: Welds parts used to repair such things as telescope structures, railings, or heavy equipment. Depending upon proficiency, may assist other staff members who are highly specialized welders.
Plumbing: Performs a variety of maintenance and repairs to the facility's plumbing fixtures. Repair faucets, drains and toilets. Maintains werless urinals. Utilizes specialized plumbing equipment to clean out sink/shower drains and pipes.
Roofing: Performs maintenance tasks such as pching leaky roofs and repairing flashing, masonry and concrete.
2. Works cooperively with scientific and other support staff on a variety of modificions and repairs to telescope facilities. This may include such tasks as repairing seams of a telescope, the telescope dome, or its rotion motor assembly. Assists Ridge Telescopes' staff with changing telescope instruments.
3. Operes heavy equipment such as forklifts, man lifts, front-end loaders, backhoes, cranes, etc. in open areas and on level, hilly and/or mountainous terrain to move earth, rocks, sand, stumps, and other equipment.
4. Operes snowplows and sanders in winter weher on an unpaved mountain road. Transports optical and scientific equipment and liquid nitrogen Dewars required for telescope instruments' operion from base camp to the summit.
5. Performs a variety of routine tasks such as delivery and pick-up of light and heavy objects the Administrive Complex and mountain facilities, fueling all types of vehicles and heavy equipment on the mountain, and performing minor servicing of all types of vehicles and heavy equipment. Serves as an alterne driver for Tucson pick up of goods.
6. Assists with cleaning debris and rocks from culverts (150) in the mountain road in cooperion with co-workers. Removal of fallen rocks is frequently required subsequent to rainstorms and high winds.
7. Participes in maintenance of grounds as required, including tree trimming, weeding, and grass cutting on the mountain road or the administrive complex.
8. Performs other reled maintenance duties as assigned.
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
Pre- and post-appointment background investigion required.
May be required to serve a one-year probionary period.
Must participe in Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds for salary payments
Use of respiror and annual respiror fit testing and training required.
Applicants must have a valid driver's license.
Annual physical examinions are required to be certified for using a respirory system for a limited number of tasks.
An annual respiror fit testing and training is required.
Heavy physical effort required in constantly reaching, bending, turning and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to opere tools, equipment, and vehicles. Due to the nure of some duties, the incumbent is required to work in awkward positions, on ladders and scaffolds, and will handle objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
Working Conditions: Duties the Ridge telescopes and on other areas of the mountain are recurring. The environment can be extreme, and range from dry he to bitter cold. Travel to the Ridge or higher over a mountain road an be hazardous, and involve exposure to snow and rain, lightning, and flash floods.
Qualificions
Your overall experience and training must indice th you have the minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed to perform the duties of this position. There is no substitution of educion for experience for this position. Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of the announcement. Additional informion on the Job Qualificion System for Trades and Labor Occupions can be found on OPM's web site
Additional informion
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
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 .
The Smithsonian offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, vacion and sick leave, holidays, health/life insurance, accident insurance, and excellent retirement program options. Please see Benefits for a complete description.
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.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Applicions will first be evalued to determine whether the following screen out element is met:
Ability to perform the work of a maintenance worker with minimal supervision (screen-out).
If an applicant meets the screen-out element, the following Job Elements evalued
Ability to opere and make minor repairs to a variety of motor vehicles and heavy equipment.
Skill in performing maintenance and repairs in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, roofing, and metalwork (welding).
Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment.
Ability to interpret instructions, specificions, etc. (includes blueprinting reading).
Knowledge of the technical practices of trade work (theoretical, precise).
Applicants who meet or exceed the screen-out element assigned to one of three cegory groups based on job-reled criteria:
Best Cegory - Meets the screen-out element and excels in most of the job reled elements above.
Better Cegory - Meets the screen-out element and sisfies most of the job reled elements above.
Good Cegory - Meets the screen-out element, but does not sisfy most of the job reled elements above to a substantive degree.
This cegory ring process does not add veterans' preference points or apply the "rule of three", but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-veterans within each cegory. A selecting official may make selections from the highest quality cegory (Best Cegory) provided no veteran in th cegory is passed over to select a non-veteran in th cegory unless the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 3317(b) or 3318(b) are sisfied.
Veterans who meet minimum qualificion requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of least 10 percent must be listed in the highest quality cegory, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional the GS-9 grade level or higher.
Applicants who have not submitted a resume in the USAjobs system and/or have not answered all of the announcement questions will not be considered for this position.
Important Note:
Your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses to the occupional questionnaire or other assessment tool for consistency. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than is supported by your resume, you assigned a ring commensure to your described experience.
Your resume should provide sufficient informion regarding how your educion and experience rele to this position, including the major duties and qualificions criteria listed.
You may preview questions for this vacancy.
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 .
The Smithsonian offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, vacion and sick leave, holidays, health/life insurance, accident insurance, and excellent retirement program options. Please see Benefits for a complete description.
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
Help
Your applicion package must include the following documents:
Detailed resume
Proof of Veteran's Preference - DD214 (Member 4 Copy), if you are a veteran. Additionally, applicants claiming 10-point preference must complete Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference, as well as additional documention required by the SF-15, such as a VA letter.
Copy of a valid Ste Driver's License
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Click on the "Apply Online" button on the upper right side of the page. Please Note:
You must apply for this position online through the 'Apply Online' button and submit required supplemental documents (if they are relevant to you).
You may submit required documents by uploading them online during the applicion process; OR You may manually fax required documents. Faxes are received by an automed system, not a physical fax machine. Documents th are faxed as part of the applicion process must be sent with the system genered cover sheet by the closing de. Documents faxed without the system genered coversheet are not retrievable and cannot be considered as part of the applicion package.
The complete applicion package, including any required documents, is due in the Smithsonian Office of Human Resources on the closing de of the announcement by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
If you are unable to apply online, paper applicions may be accepted with prior approval of the Contact Person listed below.
Agency contact informion
Mary Hebert
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
SMITHSONIAN
Human Resources
60 Garden Street
Mail Stop 17
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United Stes
Next steps
You will receive an e-mail to acknowledge th your applicion has been received. Please be aware th the confirmion e-mail could reside in your "junk" or "bulk" mail folder depending on your filters. The Smithsonian receives many applicions for each job. Each applicion is reviewed carefully which may take a few weeks. We will send you an e-mail to upde you as we go through phases of the applicion review process. You may also check your applicion stus by logging into www.usajobs.gov and selecting the tab "My USAJOBS;" e-mailing ...; or by contacting the Office of Human Resources Representive listed.
Additional Informion:
The Smithsonian does not pay relocion expenses.
A recruitment bonus may be paid.
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
Help
Your applicion package must include the following documents:
Detailed resume
Proof of Veteran's Preference - DD214 (Member 4 Copy), if you are a veteran. Additionally, applicants claiming 10-point preference must complete Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference, as well as additional documention required by the SF-15, such as a VA letter.
Copy of a valid Ste Driver's License
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Click on the "Apply Online" button on the upper right side of the page. Please Note:
You must apply for this position online through the 'Apply Online' button and submit required supplemental documents (if they are relevant to you).
You may submit required documents by uploading them online during the applicion process; OR You may manually fax required documents. Faxes are received by an automed system, not a physical fax machine. Documents th are faxed as part of the applicion process must be sent with the system genered cover sheet by the closing de. Documents faxed without the system genered coversheet are not retrievable and cannot be considered as part of the applicion package.
The complete applicion package, including any required documents, is due in the Smithsonian Office of Human Resources on the closing de of the announcement by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
If you are unable to apply online, paper applicions may be accepted with prior approval of the Contact Person listed below.
Expand Hide how to apply
Agency contact informion
Mary Hebert
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
SMITHSONIAN
Human Resources
60 Garden Street
Mail Stop 17
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United Stes
Next steps
You will receive an e-mail to acknowledge th your applicion has been received. Please be aware th the confirmion e-mail could reside in your "junk" or "bulk" mail folder depending on your filters. The Smithsonian receives many applicions for each job. Each applicion is reviewed carefully which may take a few weeks. We will send you an e-mail to upde you as we go through phases of the applicion review process. You may also check your applicion stus by logging into www.usajobs.gov and selecting the tab "My USAJOBS;" e-mailing ...; or by contacting the Office of Human Resources Representive listed.
Additional Informion:
The Smithsonian does not pay relocion expenses.
A recruitment bonus may be paid.
Expand Hide next steps
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 08/13/2025 to 09/12/2025 Salary $27.03 to - $31.52 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 08 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Amado, AZ 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Infrequent travel, such as for specialized training, may be required. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent - Career/Career-Conditional. Work schedule Full-time - Full Time Service Competitive Promotion potential 08 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Announcement number 25-114 Control number 843262000
Smithsonian Institution
Summary
The Maintenance Worker will perform a variety of duties involved in the maintenance of the office complexes, laborories, machine and automotive shops, dormitories, telescope buildings, and other ancillary structures FLWO th are in 24 hour, 365 day/year operion; and the infrastructure associed with a remote site locion including the mountain road and wer storage systems.
Summary
The Maintenance Worker will perform a variety of duties involved in the maintenance of the office complexes, laborories, machine and automotive shops, dormitories, telescope buildings, and other ancillary structures FLWO th are in 24 hour, 365 day/year operion; and the infrastructure associed with a remote site locion including the mountain road and wer storage systems.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/13/2025 to 09/12/2025
Salary
$27.03 to - $31.52 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 08
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Amado, AZ
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - Infrequent travel, such as for specialized training, may be required.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent - Career/Career-Conditional.
Work schedule
Full-time - Full Time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
08
Job family (Series)
4749 Maintenance Mechanic
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Announcement number
25-114
Control number
843262000
This job is open to
Help
The public
U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Clarificion from the agency
This position is open to all U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nionals.
Federal employees with permanent stus or individuals eligible for special appointing authorities may also apply to Job Announcement 25-115.
Duties
Help
1. Performs a variety of duties in support of scientific projects and facilities and maintenance of the Observory's buildings, infrastructure, grounds, and mountain road, including the following:
Painting: Performs spray or brush painting of walls, ceilings, exterior of buildings, doors, window frames, siding, and trim. Masks surfaces preparory to painting. Applies specialized coings to roofs.
Carpentry: Performs rough or simple type carpentry in the repair and maintenance of buildings and reled furnishings or structures. Duties may include framing, box construction, and concrete forms, making minor repairs such as replacing broken boards, nailing down loose wall siding, and caulking doors and window sills.
Welding: Welds parts used to repair such things as telescope structures, railings, or heavy equipment. Depending upon proficiency, may assist other staff members who are highly specialized welders.
Plumbing: Performs a variety of maintenance and repairs to the facility's plumbing fixtures. Repair faucets, drains and toilets. Maintains werless urinals. Utilizes specialized plumbing equipment to clean out sink/shower drains and pipes.
Roofing: Performs maintenance tasks such as pching leaky roofs and repairing flashing, masonry and concrete.
2. Works cooperively with scientific and other support staff on a variety of modificions and repairs to telescope facilities. This may include such tasks as repairing seams of a telescope, the telescope dome, or its rotion motor assembly. Assists Ridge Telescopes' staff with changing telescope instruments.
3. Operes heavy equipment such as forklifts, man lifts, front-end loaders, backhoes, cranes, etc. in open areas and on level, hilly and/or mountainous terrain to move earth, rocks, sand, stumps, and other equipment.
4. Operes snowplows and sanders in winter weher on an unpaved mountain road. Transports optical and scientific equipment and liquid nitrogen Dewars required for telescope instruments' operion from base camp to the summit.
5. Performs a variety of routine tasks such as delivery and pick-up of light and heavy objects the Administrive Complex and mountain facilities, fueling all types of vehicles and heavy equipment on the mountain, and performing minor servicing of all types of vehicles and heavy equipment. Serves as an alterne driver for Tucson pick up of goods.
6. Assists with cleaning debris and rocks from culverts (150) in the mountain road in cooperion with co-workers. Removal of fallen rocks is frequently required subsequent to rainstorms and high winds.
7. Participes in maintenance of grounds as required, including tree trimming, weeding, and grass cutting on the mountain road or the administrive complex.
8. Performs other reled maintenance duties as assigned.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
Pre- and post-appointment background investigion required.
May be required to serve a one-year probionary period.
Must participe in Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds for salary payments
Use of respiror and annual respiror fit testing and training required.
Applicants must have a valid driver's license.
Annual physical examinions are required to be certified for using a respirory system for a limited number of tasks.
An annual respiror fit testing and training is required.
Heavy physical effort required in constantly reaching, bending, turning and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to opere tools, equipment, and vehicles. Due to the nure of some duties, the incumbent is required to work in awkward positions, on ladders and scaffolds, and will handle objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
Working Conditions: Duties the Ridge telescopes and on other areas of the mountain are recurring. The environment can be extreme, and range from dry he to bitter cold. Travel to the Ridge or higher over a mountain road an be hazardous, and involve exposure to snow and rain, lightning, and flash floods.
Qualificions
Your overall experience and training must indice th you have the minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed to perform the duties of this position. There is no substitution of educion for experience for this position. Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of the announcement. Additional informion on the Job Qualificion System for Trades and Labor Occupions can be found on OPM's web site
Additional informion
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
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 .
The Smithsonian offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, vacion and sick leave, holidays, health/life insurance, accident insurance, and excellent retirement program options. Please see Benefits for a complete description.
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.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Applicions will first be evalued to determine whether the following screen out element is met:
Ability to perform the work of a maintenance worker with minimal supervision (screen-out).
If an applicant meets the screen-out element, the following Job Elements evalued
Ability to opere and make minor repairs to a variety of motor vehicles and heavy equipment.
Skill in performing maintenance and repairs in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, roofing, and metalwork (welding).
Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment.
Ability to interpret instructions, specificions, etc. (includes blueprinting reading).
Knowledge of the technical practices of trade work (theoretical, precise).
Applicants who meet or exceed the screen-out element assigned to one of three cegory groups based on job-reled criteria:
Best Cegory - Meets the screen-out element and excels in most of the job reled elements above.
Better Cegory - Meets the screen-out element and sisfies most of the job reled elements above.
Good Cegory - Meets the screen-out element, but does not sisfy most of the job reled elements above to a substantive degree.
This cegory ring process does not add veterans' preference points or apply the "rule of three", but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-veterans within each cegory. A selecting official may make selections from the highest quality cegory (Best Cegory) provided no veteran in th cegory is passed over to select a non-veteran in th cegory unless the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 3317(b) or 3318(b) are sisfied.
Veterans who meet minimum qualificion requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of least 10 percent must be listed in the highest quality cegory, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional the GS-9 grade level or higher.
Applicants who have not submitted a resume in the USAjobs system and/or have not answered all of the announcement questions will not be considered for this position.
Important Note:
Your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses to the occupional questionnaire or other assessment tool for consistency. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than is supported by your resume, you assigned a ring commensure to your described experience.
Your resume should provide sufficient informion regarding how your educion and experience rele to this position, including the major duties and qualificions criteria listed.
You may preview questions for this vacancy.
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 .
The Smithsonian offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, vacion and sick leave, holidays, health/life insurance, accident insurance, and excellent retirement program options. Please see Benefits for a complete description.
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
Help
Your applicion package must include the following documents:
Detailed resume
Proof of Veteran's Preference - DD214 (Member 4 Copy), if you are a veteran. Additionally, applicants claiming 10-point preference must complete Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference, as well as additional documention required by the SF-15, such as a VA letter.
Copy of a valid Ste Driver's License
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Click on the "Apply Online" button on the upper right side of the page. Please Note:
You must apply for this position online through the 'Apply Online' button and submit required supplemental documents (if they are relevant to you).
You may submit required documents by uploading them online during the applicion process; OR You may manually fax required documents. Faxes are received by an automed system, not a physical fax machine. Documents th are faxed as part of the applicion process must be sent with the system genered cover sheet by the closing de. Documents faxed without the system genered coversheet are not retrievable and cannot be considered as part of the applicion package.
The complete applicion package, including any required documents, is due in the Smithsonian Office of Human Resources on the closing de of the announcement by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
If you are unable to apply online, paper applicions may be accepted with prior approval of the Contact Person listed below.
Agency contact informion
Mary Hebert
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
SMITHSONIAN
Human Resources
60 Garden Street
Mail Stop 17
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United Stes
Next steps
You will receive an e-mail to acknowledge th your applicion has been received. Please be aware th the confirmion e-mail could reside in your "junk" or "bulk" mail folder depending on your filters. The Smithsonian receives many applicions for each job. Each applicion is reviewed carefully which may take a few weeks. We will send you an e-mail to upde you as we go through phases of the applicion review process. You may also check your applicion stus by logging into www.usajobs.gov and selecting the tab "My USAJOBS;" e-mailing ...; or by contacting the Office of Human Resources Representive listed.
Additional Informion:
The Smithsonian does not pay relocion expenses.
A recruitment bonus may be paid.
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
Help
Your applicion package must include the following documents:
Detailed resume
Proof of Veteran's Preference - DD214 (Member 4 Copy), if you are a veteran. Additionally, applicants claiming 10-point preference must complete Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference, as well as additional documention required by the SF-15, such as a VA letter.
Copy of a valid Ste Driver's License
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Click on the "Apply Online" button on the upper right side of the page. Please Note:
You must apply for this position online through the 'Apply Online' button and submit required supplemental documents (if they are relevant to you).
You may submit required documents by uploading them online during the applicion process; OR You may manually fax required documents. Faxes are received by an automed system, not a physical fax machine. Documents th are faxed as part of the applicion process must be sent with the system genered cover sheet by the closing de. Documents faxed without the system genered coversheet are not retrievable and cannot be considered as part of the applicion package.
The complete applicion package, including any required documents, is due in the Smithsonian Office of Human Resources on the closing de of the announcement by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
If you are unable to apply online, paper applicions may be accepted with prior approval of the Contact Person listed below.
Expand Hide how to apply
Agency contact informion
Mary Hebert
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
SMITHSONIAN
Human Resources
60 Garden Street
Mail Stop 17
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United Stes
Next steps
You will receive an e-mail to acknowledge th your applicion has been received. Please be aware th the confirmion e-mail could reside in your "junk" or "bulk" mail folder depending on your filters. The Smithsonian receives many applicions for each job. Each applicion is reviewed carefully which may take a few weeks. We will send you an e-mail to upde you as we go through phases of the applicion review process. You may also check your applicion stus by logging into www.usajobs.gov and selecting the tab "My USAJOBS;" e-mailing ...; or by contacting the Office of Human Resources Representive listed.
Additional Informion:
The Smithsonian does not pay relocion expenses.
A recruitment bonus may be paid.
Expand Hide next steps
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 08/13/2025 to 09/12/2025 Salary $27.03 to - $31.52 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 08 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Amado, AZ 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Infrequent travel, such as for specialized training, may be required. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent - Career/Career-Conditional. Work schedule Full-time - Full Time Service Competitive Promotion potential 08 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Announcement number 25-114 Control number 843262000
Job ID: 489546615
Originally Posted on: 8/15/2025
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