J073--dietary/CLC kitchen equipment maintence and repair

The VA Medical Center Washington DC (WASVAMC) Dietary and CLC Kitchens has within its inventory approximately thirty-nine (39) assets used to prepare meals for veteran patients during their stay. The DC VAMC is seeking skilled technicians to provide necessary skilled labor and access to the parts that historically ware, break either through normal use or accidental breakages to increase timeliness in necessary repairs returning equipment back to service.

The equipment consists of components for the dietary staff to prepare food, prepping or assembly equipment to assemble trays for delivery, warming or holding equipment to maintain the food s freshness and ready-to-serve state until delivered to patients, dishwashing equipment including conveyor systems working in conjunction to move dishes through the was/dry process meeting required temperatures and dryness to maintain an antibacterial environment. The equipment is manufactured by several manufactures requiring service technicians to have a broad and diverse knowledge of each unit. The technicians need to have a variety of parts unique to each unit available to enable the equipment to be returned to service expeditiously to allow the dietary staff to provide the food services at a level to maintain accreditation of the facility.