Job opening: Laborer
Salary: $16 - 18 per hour
Published at: Mar 20 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
Duties
Major duties include, but are not limited to:
Perform duties as a laborer in direct support of the supervisor and/or other trade and craft employees engaged in maintenance-related activities.
Load, unload, separate, stack, carry materials, supplies and packaging weighing from 40 to 100 pounds with assistance.
Lift, move and carry heavy objects such as heavy furniture, equipment, and supplies.
Dig ditches, shovel snow and perform general duties assisting craft employees.
Perform operator maintenance, cleaning of all equipment and cleaning of assigned areas.
Variety of manual labor tasks incidental to trade or craft work, or warehousing or construction and maintenance activities requiring application of knowledge and experience gained, on previous similar assignments.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm (subject to change based on agency needs)Position Description Title/PD#: Laborer, PD# 544-02104-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Requirements
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
- Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
- Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
- You may be required to serve a probationary period
- Subject to a background/security investigation
- Pre-employment physical required
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/30/2024.
EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.
SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated.
The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:
Dexterity and SafetyUse and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWithout more than normal supervisionWork PracticesExperience 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; religions; 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.
Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. 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.
Physical Requirements: Work requires extremely heavy physical effort on a continuous basis to lift and carry boxes and items that weigh up to 80 to 100 pounds and more with assistance, and to lift
Education
Contacts
- Address Columbia VA Health Care System
6439 Garners Ferry Road
Columbia, SC 29209
US
- Name: Phoebe Holloway
- Phone: 6464134168
- Email: [email protected]
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