Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Supervisor

Summary

The position is located in the Facilities Management Service of the Nebraska Western Iowa VA Health Care System at the Omaha VA Medical Center. The primary function of the Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Supervisor is to serve in a supervisory role with first level authority over an organizational segment responsible for operating and maintaining a 24/7 chiller plant that includes multiple large capacity chillers, air handlers, and rooftop units.

Duties

• Major duties of the A/C Equipment Mechanic Supervisor include, but are not limited to: Coordinates with Engineering and AC Shop personnel to plan and schedule maintenance activities. Establishes work sequences and resolves identified issues through inspections, alarms, and system monitoring. Plans repair strategies, schedules equipment outages with affected clinical areas, and ensures work minimizes disruption to patient care. Serves as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for maintenance related HVAC services contracts and verifies contractor performance. Reviews engineering design packages strictly for maintainability, serviceability, and long-term accessibility, without performing engineering design work. Supervises and directs daily corrective and preventive maintenance performed by AC Equipment Mechanics. AC Equipment Operators, and the AC Equipment Mechanic Leader; the incumbent assigns work orders, monitors progress, verifies proper completion of maintenance tasks, and ensures all work. Follows established procedures, equipment manuals, and safety requirements; the incumbent distributes workload equitably, balancing skill sets, operational priorities, and emergency response. Ensuring maintenance of chillers, air handlers, pumps, cooling towers, ventilation components. Plans and assigns daily and weekly work for AC Equipment Mechanics, AC Equipment Operators, and the AC Equipment Mechanic Leader. Establishes priorities and adjusts assignments based on system demands, emergencies, and seasonal load changes. Coordinates multi-trade work involving mechanical, electrical, and piping shops to ensure shared effort. Provides daily oversight of the AC Equipment Mechanic Leader and ensures shop personnel receive needed direction, clarification, and technical guidance. Performs supervisory administrative functions including leave approval, employee counseling, addressing conduct or performance concerns, and evaluating performance. Ensures maintenance work and preventive maintenance tasks are completed accurately, documented properly, and submitted in a timely manner. Identifies required tools, equipment, and training and recommends improvements to work processes, documentation practices, and shop operations. The incumbent must have a broad, but thorough understanding of the concepts and applications of refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and the associated controls of these systems. In order to properly direct work assignments and assist with repairs solutions for the specific equipment, the incumbent will: Read and interpret blueprints, wiring diagrams, shop manuals and installation drawings on all types of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment and apply this knowledge to installation of new equipment. Provide oversight to ensure vast network of air handlers and associated chilled water, steam and building automation systems are working at peak efficiency to conserve energy and maintain a comfortable environment of care. Continuously research new and innovative energy saving techniques or modifications and make recommendations for system upgrades. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 06:30am - 3:00pm. Position Description Title/PD#: Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic Supervisor/707380. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized. Telework: Not authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Supervisory Probationary Period: This position will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period for new Supervisors. The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/21/2026. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading) Lead or Supervise Materials Technical Practices Troubleshooting Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. 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. Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: Although the work is supervisory, there will be occasions when the incumbent is called on the assist with repairs. The incumbent must be able to carry and set up parts and equipment that weigh up to 50 pounds. He/she must be able to operate hoists, holders, and pulleys when replacing or installing units such as large compressors, condensers, or chiller components. He/she may be required to make repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding and platforms where the parts of systems worked on are frequently in hard-to-reach places; therefore, stooping, stretching, bending, and kneeling for long periods of time occurs frequently. The majority of work is performed indoors at comfortable temperatures and conditions. The incumbent may be occasionally required to work outside and in cramped areas with low overheads. Uncomfortable face masks and protective clothing may be occasionally worn when there is a possibility of exposure to toxic refrigerants, grease, oil, dust and dirt.

Requirements

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Pre-employment physical required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Education

No educational substitution.

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 09/21/2026 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13059078. 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. During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. 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. If initial application submission is updated and resubmitted with a new resume, only the most current resume will be reviewed for consideration. 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. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified, you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) 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/.