The employee serves as Motor Vehicle Operator for the Veterans Transportation Service under the Health Administration Service of the VA St. Louis Health Care System located in Poplar Bluff, MO.

Duties

The purpose of this position is to operate vehicles to provide transportation to Veterans who live in rural and remote areas of the Poplar Bluff VA Medical Center. Major duties and responsibilities include: Shuttling patients and their family to and from approved locations. Receiving work assignments and direction regarding work methods, procedures and schedules from either the Transportation Coordinator and/or the Mobility Manager. Arriving at and departing from pickup and discharge points at scheduled times. Reading installation maps and judging road/traffic conditions to determine the safest route. Using electronic fleet navigation application to identify route and update trip status. Enforcing passenger safety and seatbelt use. Using multiple variations of Mobile Data Computer (MDC) in and out of the vehicles for assigned trips and duties daily. Loading and unloading patients and medical supplies. Performing operator maintenance such as checking fluid levels and air pressure in tires, cleaning and washing of vehicles, and performing inspection checklists to ensure safe and proper operation. Maintaining records and document actions, such as operator inspection checklists/forms and accident/incident reports. Using two-way radios (or other device) to maintain communications with dispatcher/supervisor on assignments and locations. Performing other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized DESIGNATED DRUG-TESTING POSITION: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received. Driver's License Requirement: Must possess a valid Class E Missouri state driver's license (for-hire or chauffeur), or an equivalent license from another state. (Please do not submit a copy of your license with your application package. You will be required to show your valid state issued driver's license at the time of your interview.) Applicants must have the ability to perform the duties of a motor vehicle operator without more than normal supervision. This experience includes, driving passenger transport vehicles, arriving, and departing from pick-up and discharge points at scheduled times.

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The employee is required to exert a wide range of physical effort from light physical effort to heavy physical effort in loading, securing, and unloading patients and cargo. Objects may weigh from 20 pounds to over 200 pounds. 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 weighing up to 40 pounds and in securing wheelchair security floor locks. Considerable physical effort may be required to change tires and make limited emergency repairs such as installing emergency fan belt or replacing an electrical fuse on open highways. The Veteran Transport Vehicle driver must be able to assist Veterans into and out of the vehicle, which involves physical exertion and frequent stooping, bending and lifting of Veterans. The driver must also be able to load and assist wheelchair patients, often with no assistance. The employee is required tp push Veteran occupied wheelchairs onto para-lift wheel chair lift vehicle and secure Veteran and wheelchair to van with supplied safety floor locks and straps. WORK CONDITIONS: The employee works mostly outside, is exposed to dirt and fumes, and to the possibility of cuts and bruises and broken bones as a result of accidents while driving, or from falling objects when loading and unloading the vehicle. The employee operates vehicles in all types of traffic and weather on public roads (or the equivalent), and is exposed to the danger of serious accidents. The employee will drive in heavy 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 DependabilityWithout more than normal supervisionWork 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 John J Pershing VA Medical Center 1500 North Westwood Boulevard Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]