This position is located in the Maintenance and Operations Section: Engineering Service at Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, a tertiary care, university affiliated, active research, medical facility. Incumbent is primarily responsible for operating a valet shuttle, a gasoline or electric powered vehicle with a seating capacity of six (6) to fourteen (14) passengers.

Duties

Employee is assigned to the Maintenance Section within Engineering Service and may perform various grounds maintenance activities such as mowing, edging, trimming hedges and watering. Employee may also perform general labor duties such as cleaning various engineering storage and equipment rooms, and engineering shops, moving supplies and materials, picking up trash and debris, and assisting craftsmen such as assisting carpenters with installation and demolition of walls, pipe fitters in repair and installation of water and sewer lines, etc. Employee must possess a valid state motor vehicle license. Must have ability to perform pre-operations checks to ensure the vehicle is toad worthy. Must have the knowledge to recognize developing maintenance problems when conducting an inspection of their vehicle, and report technical problems to the supervisor. Must have ability to operate, shuttle bus, vans and shuttle carts. Continual care and attention are required to avoid accidents. Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm; subject to change based on the needs of the facility. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Incumbent must be in good physical condition and may exert moderate physical effort in performing tasks such as lifting and moving objects weighing over 50 pounds. Must be able to stoop, crouch, reach, and lift materials. Incumbent may be required to assist patients or employees with limited mobility, on and off the shuffle bus, vans or carts. Work is primarily outside in all kinds of weather, but may be performed in all areas of the hospital environment, including working outside in hot and cold weather where it is often dusty and dirty and in the hospital in medical, surgical, and psychiatric wards and research areas. Incumbent is exposed to extremes of hot and cold temperatures and all types of weather conditions while working outdoors. It may be hot, cold, humid, wet, outdoors, indoors, underground in storage tanks, in a ditch, etc. Work outdoors may, at times, be in inclement weather. 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. Ability to do the work without normal supervision the work of Motor Vechile Operator (Screen-Out) -AND- Possess a valid state driver's license. (Please do not upload photo ID) 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 SupervisionDrive SafelyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (mobile equipment operations)Motor VehiclesOperate Safely (Non-Motor Vehicle)Reliability 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 Overton Brooks VA Medical Center 510 East Stoner Avenue Shreveport, LA 71101 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]