Facilities Maintenance Technician (OCONUS)

Overview

SOSi is seeking a Facilities Maintenance Technician. The responsibilities will include but will not be limited to minor plumbing, carpentry, sheet metal, welding, locksmithing, and minor movement and reconfiguration of furniture to support a government customer at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform repairs, renovations, and preventive maintenance on customer facilities.
• Remodel, retrofit, and repair interior and exterior structures made of wood, light gauge metal, drywall, or plaster, and the associated plumbing systems.
• Perform troubleshooting and user-level preventive maintenance checks on plumbing systems and ensure higher-level preventive maintenance inspections are being conducted.
• Provide minor repairs to plumbing systems (water, sewage, and wastewater), old piping, clogged fixtures, leaky faucets, and equipment; check old pipes for fit, soundness, and operation; and maintain available back-up assets on hand to ensure operational levels.
• Conduct coordination with other facility maintenance tradesmen and civil engineering authorities.
• Work from blueprints, specifications, drawings, and instructions to remodel, retrofit, maintain, and repair various types of facilities and structures.
• Inspect completed work for conformance with specifications, requirements and compliance with applicable building and safety codes and regulations; inspect related work by contractors.
• Plan, install, repair, alter, and/or replace furnishings, fixtures, equipment, appliances, and finishes to include doors, flooring, ceilings, and cabinets as necessary.  This includes inspection, maintenance, repair or improvement of roofing components, windows, exterior drainage. 

Minimum Requirements

• Active in Scope TS/SCI security clearance.
• Five years of relevant facility maintenance experience.
• Experience with maintenance of residential and commercial plumbing fixtures and systems.
• Knowledge of welding and sheet metal fabrication for minor maintenance and repair of flashing, ducting, fencing, turnstiles, signage, and other structural components. 
• Must be able to safely use manual tools and power equipment common in the construction trades. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the Air Force or Army culture, language and expectations for mission success.

Work Environment

• Physical requirements include lifting, climbing, extended sitting or standing, or other physical efforts that are normally required. Working conditions include a combination of an office environment and outdoor activities. Outside working conditions include potential exposure to extremely high temperatures, dry and dusty conditions. 
• Required PPE includes but is not limited to head, foot, hand, torso, respiratory, vision, and hearing protective devices depending on the task assignment. 
• Lifts and carries all types of working materials, equipment, and tools of the trade.
• May handle materials and equipment that weighs over 50 pounds or more.