Nature of Assignment – Work consists of analyzing facility systems to:
change or update maintenance procedures; and
recommend equipment replacements.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
inspects physical structures, utilities, roadways, and surrounding grounds;
studies maintenance processes;
studies new systems related to facility operations;
recommends the appropriate facility maintenance process and replacements for
facility systems from many alternatives;
schedules new maintenance process; and
coordinates and monitors replacement of new systems.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment in determining
the appropriate actions to plan, schedule, coordinate, and monitor facility
maintenance and system replacement.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of providing advice to customer
concerning multiple printing procedures, and specifications for different types of
products.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
provides information to writers and editors concerning procedures to process
printing requests;
provides illustrative material layouts to determine specifications; and
recommends printing techniques and materials that can be substituted for
expensive layouts.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment in recommending
the printing techniques that will provide attractive and economical products.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of multiple functions dealing with food storage and sanitation in the food service areas.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
coordinates functions involved in requisitioning, receiving, and inspecting
food service and equipment;
analyzes procedures of food storage;
inspects food service areas;
assesses efficiency of the food service process; and
chooses the appropriate methods of storage and/or sanitation based on physical
and environmental conditions.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment in determining
what actions need to be performed based on an analysis of the situation and
compliance with regulations and directives.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of analyzing issues
relating to equipment specialization and making the appropriate recommendations.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
researches documents to identify, describe, and issue equipment or items;
collects and evaluates information related to malfunctions; and
recommends modifications to equipment as a substitute for unavailable items.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment in determining
the nature and extent of corrective actions from many alternatives based on
analysis of the item, phase, and/or the category of equipment/systems.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of modifying procedures for interments and taking remedial action to solve cemetery maintenance problems due to significant environmental conditions.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
assesses variations in ground or weather conditions to solve unusual problems
with interments and maintenance processes; and
determines and schedules remedial action for unusual plant, pest, or animal
life problems.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
to resolve complications associated with interments and maintenance issues due to
significant environmental problems such as:
hilly or sloping terrain;
predominately hard clay or sandy soil; and
weather conditions that vary with the seasons, causing occasional snow, rain,
or drought-related problems.
assuring that facility maintenance is effective; and
determining the appropriate schedule for aging systems.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
conducts on-going research and surveillance of building and grounds; and
varies the approach to maintenance and repair processes and procedures due to
aging facilities and systems or change in usage including:
elevators,
fire alarms,
sprinkler systems,
primary and secondary electrical distribution systems,
refrigeration units, and
acoustical barriers.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
to analyze use and aging of facilities and modify maintenance and repair processes
accordingly.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of improving and modifying navigation locks and fish passing facilities.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
selects the appropriate repair/modification process based on an analysis of
processes at facilities with similar operations; and
amends plans and methods.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
in planning work or refining the methods and techniques to improve and modify the
navigation locks and fish passing facility.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of choosing the appropriate
approach to satisfy printing needs and specifications for the organization.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee analyzes the overall printing and
related requirements of organizations and determines the appropriate process for
their printing needs from many alternatives and incomplete or conflicting
requirements. The employee resolves problems using methods such as
four-color processing, optical scanning, micropublishing, and electronic
publishing.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
in planning specifications for layout, printing requests, and changing customer
requirements.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of identifying and adjusting
processes to accommodate variations in laundry or dry cleaning needs.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
studies variations in laundry or dry cleaning requests;
develops plans for variations to laundry or dry cleaning procedures due to
changes in laundry or dry cleaning needs; and
prepares comprehensive management reports reflecting new procedures for
various laundry or dry cleaningsituations.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
in developing revised techniques, methods, and processes involving variations in
work procedures for changing laundry or dry cleaning operations.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of developing variations in
food services to accommodate various cultural restrictions, holidays, or special
events.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee plans menus considering:
various restrictions and cultural factors;
costs of foods; and
sound nutritional practices.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
in adjusting food services to accommodate specialized programs and diet
restrictions within the constraints of culturally acquired attitudes, habits, cost
fluctuations, and nutritional requirements.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of determining procedures for
various usage stages of assigned categories of equipment.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee considers conflicting data and
unusual circumstances in determining the appropriate procedures and methods to:
investigate material deficiency reports;
evaluate specifications; and
examine and/or develop mockups and prototypes.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises judgment and originality
in making decisions based on the interpretation of various data sources regarding
material deficiencies or new equipment.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of varied duties applied to
activities relating a national park that encompasses active volcanoes.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
plans for construction and rehabilitation projects that may be required at a
short notice;
analyzes damage caused by volcanic eruptions or earthquakes to assess needed
repairs, construction, or rehabilitation projects; and
determines solutions to safety and health of staff and visitors due situations
such as changing climatic conditions from volcanic fumes combined with variable
weather conditions.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises critical judgment to
anticipate crises involving uncertain conditions at the park and develop viable
solutions to maintenance operations, and safety and comfort issues.
Nature of Assignment – Work consists of varied duties applied to
activities relating to aircraft arresting systems, airfield markings, airfield
obstructions, and airfield geometric design requiring depth of analysis to develop
work-arounds to alleviate compromises.
What Needs To Be Done – The employee:
reviews circumstances and limitations of equipment;
studies crises involving equipment;
coordinates with functional experts;
determines work-around to alleviate compromises or develops viable solutions;
and
develops and implements guidelines, standards, and criteria.
Difficulty and Originality Involved – Exercises critical judgment to
study crises involving equipment and to develop viable solutions.
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