Job description

Facilities Support Technician III
Join the team who values your skills and expertise. Cherokee Nation System Solutions (CNSS) helps federal agencies improve productivity and find innovative solutions. Taking a personalized approach, CNSS offers a complete line of innovative services and consulting to government agencies, including call center, application modernization, data utilization, advanced analytics and IT infrastructure. Your valuable skills can help us give customers the support they deserve and the quality they expect from our team – a team of experts, like you.
Cherokee Nation System Solutions is part of Cherokee Federal – a team of tribally owned federal contracting companies focused on building solutions, solving complex challenges, and serving the nation’s mission around the globe for more than 60 federal clients. For more information, visit cherokee-federal.com .
SUMMARY
The Facilities Support Technician shall assist the client maintenance team with general facilities and building maintenance tasks such as carpentry, vehicle/boat maintenance, minor equipment repair and grounds maintenance.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The selected technician will answer requests from customers communicated in person or via email or other electronic formats and is assigned tasks to support staff members as necessary.

• Vehicle and Fleet: Selected Technician will assist with ensuring all fleet vehicles and vessels are maintained in such a manner that they are ready to be deployed at any time. This includes monthly service inspections, providing recommendations for fleet improvement, and proper record keeping providing a useful service log.

• Carpentry: Constructs, alters, modifies or repairs a wide range of features in buildings and other facilities including construction of storage areas, work rooms, and offices with existing buildings including framework, rafters, joist, insulation, sheet rock, paneling, doors, windows, and flooring. Build small structures and replaces deteriorated sections of existing structures.

• Grounds Maintenance and building maintenance. This involves lawn cutting using hand, power, or riding equipment. Trimming and edging around walks, flower beds, and walls. Landscaping by planting native flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes. Appling herbicides to rid grounds of unwanted weeds and grasses.

• Performing routine building maintenance duties such as applying plaster, fixing fountains, pressure washing, and other duties.

• Performing minor repairs and maintenance procedures on equipment utilized in grounds keeping.

• Operate various power and hand tools such as portable drills, clippers, joiners, shapers, sanders, nail gun, combustion saws, routers, band and scroll saws, drill presses, tractor, forklift, etc.

Schedule and Deliverables
All work shall be of high quality, accurate, meet the assignment objectives, and performed within CNT and client. The selected Technician shall request clarification from the Task Order Manager on technical situations not specifically outlined company policies. Shall respond to requests in a timely manner, keeping customer informed on time required for resolution and status reports, if problem cannot be addressed immediately.
SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

• Will report to CNT Program Manager and may coordinate daily work with CNT Site Lead/Program Manager and interact with client representative (Task Order Manager).

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Requires 3-4 years of combined technical education, training and/or experience in similar duties.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Skills required to operate and troubleshoot equipment used to perform the above tasks.
• Previous knowledge and proven abilities to support facilities of similar size and scope.
• Ability to successfully pass a federal background check and a drug screen,
• Cherokee Federal employees are included as covered employees in U.S. Presidential Executive Order 14042, which mandates Covid vaccines for federal contractors. Executive Order 14042 is currently blocked from enforcement pending court proceedings. Therefore, Cherokee Federal is halting the application of the mandate; however, if the injunction is lifted, Cherokee Federal will restore administration of the vaccine requirement.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• This is a full-time position with expected 40 hours per week. Normal hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday however, the selected technician may be on call when task manager is unavailable to respond to an emergency. During such events, the selected technician will have authority to independently respond accordingly to make repairs to equipment, and limit damage to property and assets due to equipment failure.
• Work will be performed in the designated facility in Lafayette, LA.
• Local travel may be required by this task to support the duties outlined above.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Items weighing up to 65 pounds shall be lifted frequently, with objects weighing 65 pounds or more lifted rarely. Operates outdoor power equipment including mowers, tractors, and forklifts sometimes under adverse weather conditions.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Cherokee Federal is a collective group of subsidiary companies of Cherokee Nation Businesses (CNB). CNB is the economic engine of Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. As a trusted partner, the Cherokee Federal team of companies manages nearly 2,000 projects of all sizes across the construction, engineering and manufacturing, and mission solutions portfolios – ranging from advanced data analytics and telehealth to cybersecurity, cloud and logistics.
Since 2012, our team of companies has won $6 billion in government contracts and completed more than 5,300 federal missions. Our 3,600+ employees work in 20+ countries, 50 states and 2 U.S. territories.
Why Cherokee Federal? Visit cherokee-federal.com to learn why you should join our team!
COMPLIANCE
Cherokee Federal is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, union affiliation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations governing all aspects of the relationship between the Company and its employees, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies. The policies and principles of EEO also apply to the selection and treatment of independent contractors, personnel working on our premises who are employed by temporary agencies and any other persons or firms doing business for or with the Company.
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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $19.00 - $20.60 per hour

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