Laborer - #9846307

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

This announcement is NOT intended for current, permanent Army employees. Current, permanent Army employees who would like to be consider for this time-limited assignment should instead apply to Announcement # CERL240515152863

Please see "Additional Information" section below for further details.

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Duties

• Load and unload trucks and other forms of conveyance, packs, unpacks, sorts, segregates, arranges, stacks, piles, or relocates a large variety of supply items.
• Performs various manual labor tasks related to or in support of trade, craftwork or warehousing.
• Prepare and restore the work site according to directions.
• Operate light vehicles (not to exceed 10,000 lbs) on a regular basis to transport tools, equipment, materials and co-workers to and from work site.
• Follows safety rules and regulations while operating a vehicle.
  
  

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The incumbent must be able to lift in excess of 50 pounds.
• The incumbent must possess a valid state driver's license.
• Position requires TDY travel up to 35% of the time.
• The incumbent must obtain and maintain government travel card.
• This position requires a pre-appointment and annual physical examination.
  
  

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

• I have the ability to perform the most difficult and complex manual labor tasks to trade or craftwork . I am skilled in weight-handling devices such as
  
  

electric hand trucks or lifts, pallet jacks and dollies to move very heavy loads. I have completed assignments involving several familiar processes which

require remembering directions and/or sequences (e.g., mixing cement or asphalt to repair walkways). I am considered an expert and work with a high

degree of independence.

• I have the ability to perform the full range of complex and manual labor tasks to trade or craft work. I am skilled in safely using basic hand tools such as hatchets, handsaws, and clippers. I have performed routine maintenance procedures for power equipment operated that included a visual check of the equipment, limited lubrication, cleaning/replacing air filters, and/or refueling. I have completed duties involving several distinct tasks or steps independently (e.g., unloading supplies, moving them to a specified location, and stacking them). . I work on my own initiative under general supervision subject to occasional inspection.
• I have the ability to perform common manual labor tasks to trade or craftwork . I can perform routine operator maintenance of hand tools and equipment. I have safely used industrial cleaners (typically used in households) and basic hand and yard tools and equipment, such as a rake, pitchfork, wheelbarrow, hand-pump sprayer, hand truck, shovel, push lawn mower (manual), hammer, screwdriver, wrench, and pliers. I have performed routine work assignments with little or no assistance (e.g., picking up all paper and trash around the work site three times a week). I work under close supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed.
• I have the ability to perform simple manual labor tasks to trade or craft work, or I have received training on assisting with skilled trades or craftsmen by retrieving tools or materials/ holds, moves, lifts, or carry items, clean equipment and work areas.
• Failure to meet these Screen out Elements will result in an ineligible rating.
• Physical Efforts- Work requires continuous standing, walking and stooping. Lifts, carries and moves objects weighing50-100 pounds. Works inside and outside, occasionally in bad weather, exposed to hot and cold temperatures, difficult terrain, blowing dirt and dust, drafts, noise, grease, and fumes. As required, use safety equipment and clothing such as coveralls, ear protectors, safety glasses and shoes, gloves and hardhats. Must be able to wear respirators and pass annual respirator fit test.
• Working Conditions - The work is performed outside in all kinds of weather, frequently in wet, muddy, and dirty conditions, exposed to poison growth, reptiles, and insects, and under noisy conditions. Workers are exposed to cuts and bruises in using tools and working around moving machinery, strains while breaking or adding joints to drive shaft, slips and falls in wet weather, and the possibility of electric shock and burns. Subject to considerable discomfort due to mud, water, grease, and from the wearing of protective devices or equipment.
• Performance of the above duties could result in exposure to hazardous wastes and materials during supervision and/or participation in drilling/sampling operations, requiring utilization of protective clothing as well as other safety measures.
  

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

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 trial/probationary period may be required.
• 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) Installation Management Career Field position.
• 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.
• Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be authorized, if in the Government Interest.
• Position may be filled as a Term Appointment NTE 4 years. Term appointments may be extended beyond of six (6) years, up to eight (8) years. With DoD approval, term appointments may be extended beyond eight (8) years
• Current permanent Federal employees (to include permanent Army employees) applying for a Term Appointment will be appointed/converted into a Term Appointment with no statutory return rights back to a permanent position.
• Current, Permanent Army employees that are eligible and would like to be considered for a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years will need to apply to Announcement # CERL240515152863 at the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/793852000.
  
  

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