About This Role
This Locksmith position serves within the Facilities Management Service, Engineering Branch at the Orlando VA Health Care System (OVAHCS). The role involves performing routine and preventive maintenance related to locksmith duties, including travel between Orlando sites of care.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the operation, maintenance, and repair of all technical security aspects of buildings and facilities
- Serve as an expert in physical security locking systems and physical access control systems capabilities and functions
- Work closely with management to determine suitable security containers and locking devices for unique security problems
- Service a wide variety of commonly used locks, repairing, replacing, or fabricating parts according to manufacturer specifications
- Apply broad knowledge of the functions and capabilities of commercially manufactured locking devices
- Erect or suspend scaffolding as needed and ensure proper care and maintenance of tools and equipment
- Ensure all tools and equipment are properly functioning and safe for use
- Construct necessary dust barriers and/or block off areas for the safety and protection of patients, staff, visitors, and equipment
- Ensure the job site is clean of all debris and equipment upon completion of work
- Assist other maintenance personnel with other or similar trade assignments
- Maintain, repair, and install a variety of electronically controlled locking devices integral to the access control system
- Review incoming Federal Regulations and VA directives for compliance in security container maintenance
- Perform ongoing inspections of security containers and related physical access control equipment for evidence of surreptitious penetration or tampering
- Inspect security containers received through supply sources for suitability and evidence of secretive tampering or modification
- Inspect security containers returned to service from storage to determine fitness for intended use
- Install or oversee the modification of safes, vaults, and other security equipment to meet specifications
- Recommend disposal of unfit security containers and related physical security equipment
- Use complex Mas-Hamilton analysis methods and binary mathematical formulas to open locked safes, vaults, and containers that fail to operate normally
- Use manipulation procedures or special drilling equipment to neutralize lockouts
- Prepare reports for submission to security when tampering or secretive entry is detected
- Repair or technically oversee the repair of security items in accordance with current directives prior to return to service
- Work closely with law enforcement, security managers, and action officers to determine suitable locking devices for specific security problems
