Job opening: Materials Handler
Salary: $25 - 29 per hour
Published at: Jul 11 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position serves as a Warehouse Worker located within the Receiving/Distribution area of the Logistics Service in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System performing work that involves receiving, storing, selecting, and shipping general and/or specialized bulk and bin materials and equipment.
Duties
Major duties and responsibilities include:
Receives, stores and ships bin and bulk supplies, materials and equipment;
Prepares shipping and inventory documents for manual or automated inventory systems;
Selects specific storage locations within framework of general warehousing plan;
Rotates stock, check for outdated materials and maintains the appropriate safeguards and temperature controls;
Handles delivering and warehousing materials including hazardous, flammable and temperature sensitive products;
Participates in conducting inventory of stock on hand and communicates discrepancies;
Ensures products and shelving are marked with corresponding identification numbers;
Load and unload shipments from trucks and other material conveyances;
Makes off-site deliveries in motor vehicles typically with a gross weight of less than 4500 pounds;
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: Not available.
Position Description/PD#: Materials Handler/PD99806S
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/01/2023.
Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C (www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c). For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element. Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligible are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.
Minimum Requirement: Experience includes: performing warehouse work involving receiving, storing, selecting and shipping of general or specialized bulk materials and equipment; loading and unloading materials; route materials and equipment to correct locations or storage areas; prepare shipping and inventory documents.
You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:
ABILITY TO DO THE WORK OF THE POSITION WITHOUT MORE THAN NORMAL SUPERVISION (Screen Out)
WORK PRACTICES
TECHNICAL PRACTICES
ABILITY TO INTERPRET INSTRUCTIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS
KNOWLEDGE OF MATERIALS
DEXTERITY AND SAFETY
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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Physical Requirements: Work involves considerable walking, pushing and pulling a variety of carts and materials handling equipment; offloading and loading trucks, lifting products on and off shelves, handling boxes frequently weighing over 40 pounds; handles equipment, furniture and materials of an awkward and heavier nature in excess of 100 pounds (typically using specialized equipment and/or assistance of co-workers). Greater physical effort may be required on projects involving the movement of large quantities of products over an extended period including turn-ins, large shipments and deliveries. While operating vehicles, may be required to exert a greater level of physical exertion while backing and turning trucks, operating forklifts, or hand trucks on uneven terrains and uncertain conditions.
Working Conditions require working in storage buildings, pods, trailers, vehicles and warehouses that may be hot, cold, drafty and poor lighting; work outdoors, on docks, making deliveries in all types of weather conditions during all seasons; hazardous materials may be encountered in daily work activities; will be subject to the possibility of trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or injury from the use of equipment; may be subject to conditions that could result in serious accidents; personal protective equipment may be required.
For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
Education
No educational requirements for this position.
Contacts
- Address VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
423 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
US
- Name: Sophia Flores
- Phone: 708-200-3154
- Email: [email protected]
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