Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base Facilities and the Major Range and Test Facilities Base Positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Located in Qualifications Section of announcement.

Duties

Pass on to other workers instructions received from supervisor and start work by assigning immediate tasks. Perform the full range of repair work from initial diagnosis and full disassembly to modification and reassembly of a wide variety of small arms including new or experimental weapons designed to meet rigid specifications. Insure that needed plans, blueprints, material, and tools are available, and that needed stock is obtained from supply locations. Check work in progress and when finished, checks for compliance with supervisor’s instructions on work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines. Provide information to supervisor on status and progress of work, causes of delays, and overall works operations and problems.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by human resources within 30 calendar days after the Entrance on Duty (i.e., start date).
• Selectee’s inability to successfully pass or refusal to conduct the drug test may result in the job offer being withdrawn or subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
• You may be required to sign a Statement of Understanding if you are selected for this position.
• This position is covered by the 1996 Lautenberg Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968. Persons convicted of a misdemeanor or felony crime of domestic violence are not eligible for the position. Criminal history background check required.
• Position requires a Secret Security Clearance.
• This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
• This position frequently lifts subassemblies or small weapons weighing 15 to 20 pounds and often carries large assemblies or weapons weighing up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications

About the Position: Serve as a Armament Equipment Repairer Leader at Camp Stanley Storage Activity located in Boerne, TX.(approx. 20 miles NW of downtown San Antonio). Ensuring that work assignment are carried out by work group members who test and inspect a wide variety of standard and non-standard weapons, apply a high degree of skill in precision fitting and finishing of new and modified components to very close tolerance, and redesign and modify components of weapons until firing function has accomplished the degree of performance desired. Who May Apply: US Citizens 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Armament Equipment Repairer Leader ~ without more than normal supervision. Must possess the ability to perform common tasks associated with the issuance of instruction for work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines, and ensuring that work assignments are carried out by other members of the group. May also complete rebuild, modification, repair, inspection, and testing for all types of small arms and artillery systems. Items include rifles, handguns machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers and recoilless systems. Items are standard military and non-standard weapons. - Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Physical Effort: Employee frequently lifts subassemblies or small weapons weighing 15 to 20 pounds and often carries large assemblies or weapons weighing up to 50 pounds. Work requires walking, bending, and long periods of standing. Working Conditions: Work is performed for a preponderance of time in well-lighted and ventilated shops with occasional trips to firing ranges; shop floors are usually of cement construction. Exposure to excessive noise from test firing weapons; possible injury due to handling tools and weapons; contact with dirt, grease, dust, solvents, cleaning solutions and fumes; and more serious injury who unloading jammed or misfired weapons, ricochet bullets and bluing solutions.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address GL-W39003 USA AFSC, MCALESTER ARMY AMMO PLANT DO NOT MAIL Boerne, TX 78006 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk