Organization: Illinois National Guard
Position Type: Title 32 Excepted Service
Appointment: Permanent
Work Schedule: Full-time
Pay Scale and Grade: WL 10
Hourly Compensation: $36.73 to $42.88 per hour
Location: Robbins, Illinois
Vacancies: 1
Travel: Occasional travel required
Relocation Assistance: Available under agency policy
Security Clearance: Secret
Service Type: Excepted
Promotion Potential: None
Job Series: 5801, Miscellaneous Transportation and Mobile Equipment Maintenance
Bargaining Unit: Yes
Announcement Number: IL-12848848-AR-25-108
Control Number: 852329900
Eligibility and Audience
This role is open to current National Guard and Reserve members, including those transitioning or seeking to join. Consideration is limited to current onboard permanent or indefinite technicians and employees within the Illinois National Guard.
Role Overview
The Surface Maintenance Mechanic Leader serves as a working leader for a team of three or more Surface Maintenance Mechanics at the WG 10 level. The position combines technical repair responsibilities with team coordination, task assignment, and quality oversight to ensure mission readiness and operational efficiency.
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Core Responsibility Areas
Team Leadership and Work Coordination
The role involves assigning work orders based on individual skills, relaying supervisor instructions, demonstrating correct repair methods, and setting the work pace. In addition, the leader ensures deadlines and quality standards are consistently met.
Maintenance Operations and Technical Execution
The position requires hands-on participation in complex repair tasks, including troubleshooting, maintenance, and major overhauls of heavy-duty mobile equipment and tactical vehicles. This includes engines, transmissions, driveline systems, and hydraulic systems.
Quality Control and Technical Guidance
Work is reviewed during and after completion to confirm compliance with work orders, technical manuals, and shop procedures. The leader also interprets instructions and guides lower-grade mechanics and trainees during complex repairs.
Tools, Materials, and Documentation
The role ensures that blueprints, tools, parts, and materials are available before work begins, while also following modification work orders, lubrication orders, maintenance bulletins, and applicable regulations.
Employment Conditions
This position requires active membership in the Illinois National Guard in the military grade specified in the announcement before placement. The selected individual must wear an Army uniform and accept all Title 32 employment conditions.
Additional conditions include a federal background investigation, a potential trial period, compliance with the Lautenberg Amendment, participation in direct deposit, and availability for irregular or overtime hours as operational needs require. Recruitment, relocation, and PCS incentives may be authorized.
Required Military Criteria
Military Grade: Enlisted
Minimum Rank: E5
Maximum Rank: E8
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Experience and Qualification Requirements
General Experience
Candidates must demonstrate extensive hands-on experience with complex mechanical systems across combat, tactical, commercial, and special-purpose vehicles, including diagnosing, repairing, overhauling, and modifying interconnected systems such as engines, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical, and electronic controls. The role also requires the ability to improvise solutions when technical guidance is unavailable.
Specialized Experience
At the WL 10 level, candidates must show the ability to plan, organize, and lead the work of others within a maintenance environment. It includes administrative coordination, interpreting technical publications, and providing clear technical direction to team members.
Both paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer service, is considered if it demonstrates relevant competencies.
Education Policy
Education cannot be substituted for experience for this position. All qualification requirements must be met solely through demonstrated expertise.
Evaluation Process
Applications are reviewed after the announcement closes to confirm that minimum qualifications are met. Qualified candidates are then assessed based on documented experience and responses to the assessment questionnaire. Final evaluations focus on demonstrated competencies, accuracy of self-assessment, and alignment with role requirements.
Key competencies assessed include the ability to instruct, proficiency in using and maintaining tools and equipment, and in-depth knowledge of equipment assembly, installation, and repair.
Additional Notes
Applicants must meet Selective Service registration requirements where applicable. Candidates are expected to support the efficiency of federal operations while upholding constitutional values and national security standards.
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Contact and Support
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