Job opening: Materials Examiner and Identifier (Forklift Operator)
Salary: $21 - 25 per hour
Published at: Jun 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
Receives, verifies, sorts and classifies, warehouses, and issues a variety of excess surplus property
Conducts extensive review, research, verification and receipt of a variety of routine and complex property
Employs Federal Cataloging Procedures to properly validate or change data elements
Certifies that items are eligible for sale.
Reviews disposal turn-in document (DTID) accompanying material and compares data against property to assure correct information including proper documentation
Visually inspects usable property for obvious signs of condition and determines acceptability
Ensures proper certification is attached to turn-in document when demilitarized by host or generating activity
Performs daily inspection and maintenance and completes appropriate forms.
Performs pre-receipt examination of property on site at the generation point
Operates forklifts and related materials handling equipment to move, load and unload, stack or un-stack palletized
materials, supplies, and equipment
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Tour of Duty: 1st shift
- Security Requirements: Non critical sensitive
- Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt
- Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
- Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- Bargaining Unit Status: Yes
- Pre-Employment Physical: Required
Qualifications
Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying. Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job. Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition.
Ability to do the work of a Materials Examiner & Identifier (FLO) without more than normal supervision: I perform the common tasks of the job to be filled but under close supervision, such as receive general guidance on assignments, such as: loading and handling material and how items are to be received and identified.
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.
Additional Information:
Physical Effort
Climb stacks of property during inspection, pre- receiving and receiving and verification operations, necessitating considerable kneeling, crawling, bending, walking and stooping. Physical handling of property will be routine.
Incumbent must be able to lift property weighing up to 50 pounds and shift/relocate other heavy materials using appropriate material handling equipment.
Working Conditions
Work is done inside and outside for long duration (through breaks, etc. as necessary) to complete immediate tasks. Inside work is performed in warehouses which may be drafty or unheated. Outside work is subject to inclement weather. Discomfort is experienced while wearing protective clothing; respirators, goggles or face masks. Worker may be exposed to hazardous vapors, liquids, powders and solids and the possibility of cuts and
bruises. May be subject to hazards of working close to moving equipment, for example, forklifts, trucks and conveyor lines.
Contacts
- Address DLA Disposition Services
74 Washington Avenue North
Suite 6
Battle Creek, MI 49017-3092
US
- Name: DLA Disposition Svcs POC
- Phone: 614-692-9666
- Email: [email protected]
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