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Maintenance Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · North Little Rock, Arkansas · Closes in 5 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.

Open to the public, but only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. can apply. Federal employees whose job was eliminated and who are eligible for career transition programs (CTAP or ICTAP) get priority over other applicants.

Experience: No specific length of training or experience is required. You must show training or experience of enough scope and quality to do this work, described in detail on your resume. No specific grade level is named for the experience.

Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Licenses and certifications:

Current, valid state-issued driver's license

Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.

2 Resume and documents

Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume with clear duties, dates, and hours per week for each job, no more than two pages Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former federal employee An additional SF-50 showing one-year time in grade if your most recent SF-50 is less than a year old (award SF-50s are not accepted) ICTAP or CTAP documentation if you are a displaced federal employee Disability letter if you apply under Schedule A, a hiring path for people with disabilities

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 days (November 9, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.

How they rate you: You answer an online occupational questionnaire, and question 1 screens out applicants who do not meet the minimum qualifications. Those who pass are rated on job skills such as equipment assembly and repair, blueprint reading, measuring instruments, materials, technical practices, and tool use.

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4 After you apply

In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.

For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.

If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Do not upload a copy of your driver's license with your application; a copy is only needed if you are invited to an interview.
Describe your mason, carpentry, and painting work in detail, with dates and hours per week, because the agency will not assume your experience.
Submit the full application package, including the resume and the questionnaire, by 11:59 PM Eastern on 11/09/2026.

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