Medical Equipment Repairer

Medical Equipment Repairer

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Miami, Florida

Salary Range: $34.58 - $40.34 Per Hour

Job Summary: The Medical Equipment Repairer will be assigned to the Prosthetics & Sensory Aids Service, VA Medical Center, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Miami, FL.

Major Duties:

• Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Evaluates durable medical equipment and all mechanical devices utilized by patients to determine the safety of the device. Notifies management of a decision to issue a loaner piece of equipment, condemn the existing equipment, and working with the clinical staff to have an appropriate replacement device. Repairs, maintains, overhauls, and modifies the full range of electrically and mechanically operated durable medical equipment such as power wheelchairs, scooters, rollators, and other non-mechanical devices such as walkers. Determines equipment deficiencies, adjustments needed and the parts necessary to place each item in proper operating condition by operational tests, visual examination, and by use of a variety of measuring devices or electrical test equipment. Searches for equipment from mandatory or open market sources, selecting the most cost-effective item. Initiates orders and generated direct purchase. Inspects procured items. Performs clerical level work to acquire supplies and services to meet the purchase, rental, or lease needs of an organization. Applies conventional practices to resolve a variety of purchasing problems, such as inadequate or restrictive specifications, lack of multiple suppliers, urgent need, or insufficient price history. Disassembles equipment and repairs or replaces wiring, electrical elements, switches, etc. Repairs or replaces electric motors by soldering connections, replacing bearings, etc. Replaces damaged or faulty framework, timers, regulators, gaskets, and similar controls. Secures parts and supplies from parts room or salvageable equipment; fabricates simple parts such as gaskets, washers. Reassembles equipment, performs applicable tests, makes needed adjustments, and accomplishes applicable modifications to assure performance standards are met. Performs clerical or technical level work to procure supplies and service to meet the procurement requirements of the service. Processes a wide variety of procurement transactions related to complex contracts. Maintains stock levels of repair parts that will meet the needs of the service to provide expedient service to the patients. Handles consults and quotes for prosthetic repairs. Ensures the requirements of eligibility and entitlement to prosthetic devices are met. Renders decisions on client eligibility for prosthetic devices and reviews requests for prosthetic devices from a physician or a prescription. Procures or manages the procurement of prosthetic devices for eligible patients. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm. DESIGNATED DRUG-TESTING POSITION: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Qualifications: PHYSICAL EFFORTS: Lifts or handles items fifteen to forty-four (15 - 44lbs) pounds. Assignments involve standing, bending, or working from cramped or kneeling positions. AND WORK CONDITIONS: Works in a well-lit, heated, and ventilated shop area, in shelters or at workbench. Exposed to possibility of electric shock, burns, or injury from use of hand and power tools. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Electrical Troubleshooting Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Use Prints and Drawings Without more than normal supervision IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How to Apply: All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 11/10/2025 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12827994. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package. NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/applicant-guidance-on-the-two-page-resume-limit/ Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities (i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities), and/or disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. For more information on how to apply using this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator within the office, contact the facility Human Resources Department at (305) 575-7000. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more before any Veterans preference points) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Application Deadline: 2025-11-10