Summary About the Position: This position is located at the U. S. Engineer School First Engineer Brigade, 554th EN BN on Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Fort Leonard Wood is located in the beautiful South-Central Missouri Ozarks. The Fort covers more than 61,000 acres and is located in Pulaski County, bordering Waynesville/St. Robert and Interstate 44. St. Louis is a 2-hour drive east and Springfield is a 1-hour drive west of Fort Leonard Wood. Responsibilities Operate various @types of heavy equipment to include diesel and gasoline powered equipment. Accomplish earth digging and grading in connection with construction projects. Work an asphalt finishing machine, military vehicles, rock crusher, concrete mixer, and asphalt batch plant machines on a daily basis. Perform preventive maintenance of all equipment assigned. Change attachments as necessary and adjust for proper positioning and working conditions. Perform a variety of limited trades and some minor labor tasks such as incident to the construction sites, to include repairs and maintenance of access roads, and grounds and facilities in the parks. Compact grading for building sites , road construction, and test sites. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Civilian Employees of the Command Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant 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 an Engineering Equipment Operator without more than normal supervision. To meet the screen out element applicants should document experience in the following: Knowledge of Operating heavy equipment to push, pull, pile, or load materials such as sand, gravel, earth, and clearing brush, rocks, tree stumps, and other material. Knowledge and ability to perform Operating heavy equipment on flat or rolling terrain and construction sites with simple terrain problem, performing the most difficult and complex Engineering Equipment Operator tasks including operating engineering and construction equipment to perform functions such as cutting, moving, digging, grading, and rolling earth, sand, stone, and other materials; and construct, maintain, and repair roads; and load, offload trucks with a high degree of independence. Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating. * Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal Supervision Ability to Drive Safely (Motor Vehicles) Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (Related to Mobile Equipment Operation) Ability to Operate Safely (Non-motor Vehicles) Operation of Motor Vehicles Reliability and Dependability Work Practices (Including Keeping Things Neat, Clean, and in Order) PHYSICAL EFFORT Heavy physical effort is required in reaching, bending, turning and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle controls to operate equipment and attachments. Equipment operator requires normal visual acuity, field of vision, depth perception, reaction time, and hearing. WORKING CONDITIONS Works outside, exposed to heat, cold, noise, vibration, dust, and fumes from motors and exhausts. Subject to traffic hazards, to cuts; bruises, and strains which might result in loss of time beyond five days, and to serious injury or death from overturning equipment while constructing access roads in forest areas which are characterized by rolling hills, swamps, etc. 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. This position may require a one year trial/ probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest. Direct deposit of pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. 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(n) 32- Training, Capability and Doctrine Warfighting Career Field position. BUS Code: AR3014 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. Employees at Fort Leonard Wood may have the following available: work-out facilities, golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, rental program (e.g. pop-up campers and trailers), ample free parking, a youth center and childcare services. Fort Leonard Wood employees may also have access to the Fort Leonard Wood Lake of the Ozarks Recreation Area (LORA). LORA is a great place to get away from all the worries of every-day life.
