These positions are located within the Veteran Transportation Service (VTS) program within the Greater Los Angeles (GLA) VA Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA. The primary purpose of the position is providing transportation to veterans and their spouses who live in rural areas of the GLA VA Health Care System and surrounding satellite clinics catchment areas.

Duties

Performs the driving duties and related services operating various types of and classes of motor vehicles including buses, trucks, vans, patient transport vehicles such as ambulances and wheelchair buses, passengers, and shuttle vans; Ensures safe loading and unloading of non-ambulatory passengers; Maneuvers the vehicle in and out of constricted areas including narrow city streets and congested parking lots; Provides preventative maintenance checks and services for patient transport vehicles; Interacts in a courteous and respectful manner with a wide variety of people; Verifies passengers against manifest and completes paperwork as trip tickets and records indicating the amount and type of fuel dispensed; Adheres to all State, local, and installation traffic laws and ordinances; Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm.

Requirements

Qualifications

LICENSE REQUIREMENT: This position requires the possession of an active/current Class A or B CDL driver's license with Passenger and Air Brakes endorsements. This must be documented on your resume and if an interview is requested, you will be required to provide your driver's license for verification of required endorsements. PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Drivers at this level exert moderate physical effort in operating, turning, backing, and controlling vehicles which carry heavy loads or larger numbers of people. The position requires light physical effort in reaching, bending, turning, or moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to operate hand and foot controls. Moderate physical effort in the frequent handling of objects, excess of 50 pounds. Considerable physical efforts may be required to change tires, make limited emergency repairs, such as installing an emergency fan belt or replacing an electrical fuse on open highways and first echelon maintenances. Drivers operate vehicles in all types of traffic and weather on public roads (or the equivalent) and are exposed to the danger of serious accidents. They drive in heavy traffic and at highway speeds over complicated road and interchange systems. Employees in this position work mostly outside, is exposed to dirt and fumes, and to the possibility of cuts, bruises, and broken bones, from accidents while driving or from falling objects when loading and unloading the vehicle. Operates vehicle in all types of traffic and weather on public roads (or the equivalent) and is exposed to the danger of serious accidents. Employee will drive in heavy urban to rural traffic and at highway speeds over complicated road and interchange systems. 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: Drive SafelyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (mobile equipment operations)Motor VehiclesReliability And DependabilityWork 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 Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System 11301 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90073 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]