Summary About the Position: This is a vacancy for an Engineering Equipment Operator, WG-5716-10, Operations Division, Technical Support Branch Engineering Equipment Unit located in Jacksonville, FL. Responsibilities Perform operator maintenance on equipment operated including cleaning, oiling, lubricating, hydraulic line replacement and making minor adjustments. Grade surfaces to rough and moderately fine specifications by adjusting attachments while the vehicle is in motion. Must be able to use common hand tools and a small variety of test equipment. Must be able to operate 10-speed truck pulley, 50-foot tandem wheel trailer and load, secure, and unload equipment. Must be able to follow written work orders and oral instructions. 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. 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: (1) Operating a variety of construction and maintenance equipment such as bulldozers, graders, rollers, front end loaders, excavators, etc.; (2) Building and grading levees, loading barges with rock, grading roads, clearing trees, clearing fence lines, etc.; (3) Assisting heavy mobile equipment mechanic in performing maintenance on engineering equipment and motor vehicles; (4) Disassembling engines, transmissions and other major assemblies of equipment Physical Efforts: Uses heavy physical effort by constantly reaching, bending, turning and moving hands, arms, feet, legs, and body to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment and the jerking and jolting from operating over rough surfaces and on inclines. Because of the location of some of the controls, and attachments, the operator is frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions. Repair work requires incumbent to work in tiring and uncomfortable positions and on parts that are in hard to reach places. Working Conditions: Works outside exposed to seasonally hot and cold weather, fatigue from heavy labor, strains, falls, cuts, bruises, abrasions, burns, fumes, dust, insect bites, noise and usual hazards relative to equipment operating. Operates engineering equipment near or adjacent to buildings, trees, drop offs and water control structures on steep or rough terrain over rock, sand, gravel, shell, muck, or fallen trees and heavy vegetation. Works behind coffer dams or other dewatering systems above or below grade. Repair work is performed indoors in drafty, noisy environment. Must stand on hard surfaces for long periods of time, crawl under vehicles and is exposed to grease, dirt, battery acids, and hydraulic fluids. Education FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. 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 1 year 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. 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.
