Engineering Equipment Operator

U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command • Tobyhanna, PA • 6h ago

Summary This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Facilities and the Major Range and Test Facilities Base (MRTFB) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Responsibilities Perform facilities maintenance work involving gasoline or diesel-powered engineering or construction equipment with wheeled or crawler @type traction equipment. Operate a variety of engineering equipment, such as, front-end loaders (track and rubber tires), backhoes, skid-loaders, excavators, scrapers, and rollers to excavate, backfill, grade, or level earth to rough specifications on projects. Perform maintenance tasks such as testing operating controls, levers, and gears including oils and grease equipment. Operate motor vehicles including dump trucks, tractor-trailers, and truck tanks to transport equipment and materials. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: US Citizens Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Engineering Equipment Operator ~ without more than normal supervision. I have the ability to perform common duties which include operating gasoline or diesel-powered engineering and construction equipment with wheeled or crawler @type traction, maintaining the operating equipment such as oiling and greasing equipment, making minor adjustments to equipment such as tightening nuts and bolts and changing cutting edges, and operating equipment at construction sites with difficult terrain problems such as steep slopes or soft ground. I work under normal supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed.- Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Physical Effort - Work involves strenuous, heavy physical effort in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments. Work is performed on large pieces of equipment, which requires frequent adjustments. Often the terrain causes more adverse operating conditions than work on flat or rolling terrain. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment and jerking and jolting from operating over rough surfaces. Frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions due to location of the controls and attachments. Working Conditions - Work is performed outside, in all @types of weather, often in an open driver's seat or platform, on hills, slopes, grades, rolling surfaces and forests. Operator is constantly exposed to injury due to the possibility of the equipment overturning while working on rough and uneven terrain. Subject to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, and fumes from the motor and exhaust. Education Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a Science, Engineering, and Analysis Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. The Department of the Army is committed to the highest ethical standards and, as an employee, you will be covered by the criminal conflict of interest statutes and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch.

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