- Position Title
- SHEET METAL MECHANIC
- Agency
- Army National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- NE-12689021-AR-25-062 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, February 12, 2025 to Friday, September 26, 2025
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Preferences
1.
Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
Conditions of Employment
1.
This position is open to applicants Area 1, 2 and 3 applicants. What is your current area of consideration?
AREA 1: Current permanent and indefinite technicians of the Nebraska Army or Air National Guard; and current Title 5 employees of the Nebraska Military Department who are military members of the Nebraska National Guard.
AREA 2: All Drill Status/M-Day members and temporary technicians of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 3: Current military service members who are willing and eligible to become members of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 4: All qualified candidates eligible and willing to become a member of the Nebraska National Air or Army National Guard prior to the effective date of hire.
AREA 1: Current permanent and indefinite technicians of the Nebraska Army or Air National Guard; and current Title 5 employees of the Nebraska Military Department who are military members of the Nebraska National Guard.
AREA 2: All Drill Status/M-Day members and temporary technicians of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 3: Current military service members who are willing and eligible to become members of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 4: All qualified candidates eligible and willing to become a member of the Nebraska National Air or Army National Guard prior to the effective date of hire.
2.
Are you an enlisted member in the grades of E1 - E6?
MILITARY MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION. FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING ELIGIBILITY TO JOIN THE NEBRASKA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PLEASE CONTACT THE LOCAL RECRUITING OFFICE AT 402-309-7458.
Assessment 1
Please answer all questions truthfully and to the best of your ability
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Experience or training that has provided the candidate with the ability to plan, manufacture, and install cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastenings such as single and double-hem edges and single, double or grooved seams.
2.
WG-05: Do you possess 6 months experience or training which demonstrates the ability to use common hand tools, power tools, measuring instruments and make repetitive repairs; Must have basic knowledge of the type of work performed by the occupational series; Provide assistance to the journeyman by performing the simpler and routine duties of the trade?
3.
WG-08: Do you possess 12 months experience or training planning, manufacturing, and installing cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastening; Experience cutting and forming by using basic hand and powered tools such as hammers, chisels, hand snips, band and circle saws, squaring shears, seamers, bar folders, breaks, and stakes; Experience assembling parts by seaming, bolting, screwing, riveting, tacking, spot-welding, or soldering; Experience demonstrating a basic understanding of using measuring instruments?
4.
WG-10: Do you possess at least 18 months experience or training in planning, layout, and construction skills to manufacture items and systems with dovetailed seams, set-in-bottom seams, burred-bottom seams, or wired or lock seams; Experience using more complicated shop tools and equipment; Experience in using metals including stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material and alloys; Experience demonstrating the use of more complicated mathematical calculations and complicated measuring instruments?
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
5.
Operate and maintain power shears, metal brakes, rolls, dimpling machines, drills, saws, heat treating furnaces, hardness tests, arc and oxyacetylene welders and other metal working equipment.
6.
Remove and repair such parts and assemblies as frames, stringers, longerons, bulkheads, beams, ribs, spars and skins.
7.
Troubleshoot aircraft structures such as fuselage, tail, wings, cowlings and stabilizers.
8.
Fabricate and fit patches to damage areas as necessary to retain or restore original strength of aircraft.
9.
Inspect for corrosion conditions and determine needed repairs.
10.
Diagnoses malfunctions engines to determine degree of disassembly, repair, modification, and adjustment needed.
11.
Use diagrams, schematics and technical publications to make necessary repairs and modifications.
For each technical area below, select the response that most accurately describes your current level of experience and demonstrated capability.
12.
Analyze, interpret and follow work orders, blueprints, specifications, sketches.
13.
As previously explained, your ratings in this Occupational Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification based on the documents and references you submit. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for not selecting you from employment following acceptance.
I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any documents or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 USC 1001); my eligibility may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment or I may be removed and debarred from Federal Service (5 CFR part 731). I understand that any information I give will be investigated.
Please take this opportunity to review your ratings to ensure their accuracy. By agreeing to the statement below, you are confirming that you: (1) understand this warning, (2) have reviewed your responses to this questionnaire for accuracy, (3) verify that your responses accurately describe your current level of experience and capability; and (4) realize you must join the respective Nebraska National Guard and wear the military uniform.
Failure to agree to this statement or answer this question will make you ineligible from further consideration for the position.
I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any documents or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 USC 1001); my eligibility may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment or I may be removed and debarred from Federal Service (5 CFR part 731). I understand that any information I give will be investigated.
Please take this opportunity to review your ratings to ensure their accuracy. By agreeing to the statement below, you are confirming that you: (1) understand this warning, (2) have reviewed your responses to this questionnaire for accuracy, (3) verify that your responses accurately describe your current level of experience and capability; and (4) realize you must join the respective Nebraska National Guard and wear the military uniform.
Failure to agree to this statement or answer this question will make you ineligible from further consideration for the position.