Serves as a Laborer located in Sioux Falls SD, at the VA Sioux Falls Health Care Center.

Duties

Repair, install, and hang items such as clocks, pictures, bulletin boards, window treatments, signage, cubicle tracking, privacy curtains, and dispensers. Assemble and disassemble various types of furniture. Provide maintenance and repair to various types of furniture. Move office furniture to and from various locations throughout the SFVAHCS. This includes moves between buildings located on the main hospital campus as well as moves to and from the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). Operate heavy riding and non-riding equipment i.e. Bobcats, Toolcats, Payloader, utility tractors, snowplows, lawn sweeper, garden tiller, mowers, grass trimmer as well as powered and non-powered tools ie. Screw guns, screw drivers, shovels, hammers, drills chain saws, rakes, pruning saws. Operate trucks, Trailers, and other government vehicles in order to move furniture and various items to and from the CBOCs. Setup special events and meetings with floor plan layouts, blueprints, maps, etc. Helps other trades with demolition and remodeling, and uses tools normally associated with common laborer tasks. Help the Fleet Manager in switching out vehicles, picking them up or taking them to businesses. Work Schedule: Full-Time; Monday - Friday; 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Physical Effort: Incumbent must be able to perform heavy physical effort over an eight (8) hour tour including continuous standing, bending, lifting, turning, stooping, crouching, pushing, pulling, rubbing, reaching, and climbing. Objects weighing in excess of fifty pounds must be lifted or moved routinely. He/she must be able to operate heavy riding and non-riding equipment in areas of heavy traffic, close quarters, and other various obstacles in a safe and smooth manner. He/She is frequently required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel; as well as being able to climb or balance themselves. specific vision abilities required to include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Unloading of debris into dumpsters requires overhead lifting. Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job, the Labor is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outdoor weather conditions. He/She is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, work in high precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals are used, and vibration of equipment. While performing this job, the noise level in the work environment is sometimes loud. The Laborer is required to work inside and outside in all types of weather conditions and is exposed to such hazards as high and extremely low temperatures, strains from handling heavy objects, cuts and abrasions from sharp or pointed tools and equipment. He/She is subject to noise, dust, and vibration from machinery or other equipment. He/She drives in all types of traffic and/or weather conditions. and is exposed to possible accidents and injury. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. 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 (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). 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 eligibles 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. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Dexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)Use and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWork Practices IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. 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. 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). 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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Royal C Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital 2501 West 22nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]