Total 3 health instructor job vacancies in Manufacturing / Production category in Tucson, Arizona

Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or result in you losing consideration for the job. This position is located at Kayenta Health Center, Division of Administrative Services, Facility Management Branch, Kayenta, AZ. The incumbent:

• Operates and repairs auxiliary equipment including vacuum pumps, fuel oil pumps, gas regulators, air compressors, feed water pumps and regulators, forced draft fans and safety controls. Performs major repairs on each equipment such as installing, connecting and adjusting components including rotors, electrodes, solenoids, switches, thermostats and rheostats.
• Performs hydrostatic tests on chilled and heating hot water closed loop systems and places chillers and boilers in service. Recording all information, compared to samples taken and tested by outside consultants.
• Operates, maintains and repairs chillers and boilers that supplies cool and heated air to air handling units for air conditioning.
• Ventilation/Air Handler: Inspect, cleans, adjust and repair hospital and field clinic ventilation system which is interrelated with air conditioning that carries the status amount of air volume to each part of the hospital through different size ducts that are instilled in attic areas; modifies, fabricates, repair actuators controls.
• Operates and maintains 600 KW Emergency Generator; tests generator no load condition once a week, with load once a month; read, record data include line - load amperes; operates voltage and frequency to comply with TJC requirements.
• Uses system to: diagnose and correct HVAC problems and failures, command set points and valve actuators, and to acknowledge, clear and reset alarms.

Starting at $32.47 Per Hour (WG 10)

Duties include but not limited to:
Operate telephone switchboard to provide telephone communications for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) including all off site community based outpatient clinic locations. The work requires:

• Knowledge and practice of telephone courtesy techniques;
• Skill in questioning callers, who often can provide only sketchy information, in order to direct them to the proper organizational component;
• Knowledge and practice of telephone procedures to operate telephone switchboard consoles, answer recurring kinds of telephone calls, use printed or computerized directories, and connect local calls and regular or special long-distance calls to their proper destinations;
• Knowledge and practice of proper login and testing at the beginning of the duty tour to ensure continuity of telephone service;
• Knowledge and practice of the organization served to connect incoming calls to the appropriate office or individual;
• Skill in dealing politely with people who are emotional or discourteous and at times irate;
• Skill in using standard procedures to place outgoing calls through various circuits and networks;
• Skill in placing and receiving conference and collect calls;
• Provides telephone directory assistance for internal and external callers requires thorough knowledge of the large, frequently changing SAVAHCS organization;

Emergency calls and codes are received through any number of venues such as the 222 emergency telephone line, two-way radio calls, incoming telephone calls, and alarm systems and are handled consistent with SOPs and logged in the VISTA operator log. Telephone operators shall make 911 calls to community emergency responders when requested by VA Police and as directed by written SOPs. Telephone Operators conduct procedures, routine testing, documentation, and reporting in accordance with SOPs including entries into the VISTA operator log.

Monitors over 800 intrusion/ 28 panic alarm computer systems and other alarm panels at the switchboard. Will assure that the alarms are operational and when necessary, will dispatch police or other personnel as required, to immediately investigate alarm activations and other problems. Incumbent will troubleshoot and repair or enter work order requests for all alarm repairs when necessary. The incumbent will advise the supervisor of the situation and enter appropriate documentation in the computerized operator log as required.

Provides notification services - overhead announcements, pagers and cellular telephone contact for all medical center emergencies and to notify on-call and code team medical staff. Telephone operators must provide paging services by following SAVAHCS policy.


Work Schedule: Various shifts, days off vary.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Telephone Operator/PD11895A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Starting at $36,009 Per Year (GS 4)

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Prepares and weighs out different rearing media and diet ingredients using different scales in preparing to make artificial diet.
• Prepares disinfectant, for cleaning and sanitation of equipment to ensure healthy production levels through the productive lifespan of the colony.
• Operates and/or synchronizes multiple pieces of equipment for the establishment of the colony.
• Provides feed to insects, controls temperature and humidity, and harvests pupae or adults, records collection data, and verifies that the data is correct and properly backed up.
• Separates insects into categories such as sex and/or specie and controls them to prevent escape or intermingling.
• Observes insect collections for obvious changes of live cycles, deaths, and general activity.
• Performs irradiation and irradiation monitoring of insects prior to shipping and puts the information into storage and a database.
• Maintains approved disinfectants to clean and sanitize the floors, walls and equipment; operates high pressure steam washers, and uses autoclave to sterilize materials, water, and objects.

Starting at $22.64 Per Hour (WG 4)