Job opening: Engineering Equipment Operator (MVO)
Salary: $28 - 33 per hour
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 06 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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 Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: This position is located with the Directorate of Public Works - Landfill, Fort Campbell, KY.
Duties
Operate a variety of engineer heavy equipment in the construction and maintenance of roads and land management.
Operate a grader with articulated steering to grade roads and parking lots.
Excavate, backfill, clear brush and maintain landfills utilizing a bulldozer.
Load dump trucks and perform trenching and excavating utilizing front end-loader and backhoe.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position is covered by the Civilian Drug Abuse Testing Program.
- This position requires a Tennessee or Kentucky Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
- This position requires a pre-employment physical.
- This is an inclement weather position.
- This is an emergency essential position.
Qualifications
Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs MAY be authorized
Recruitment and relocation incentives MAY be authorized
Student loan repayment MAY be authorized
Salary negotiations for candidates new to Federal service MAY be authorized
Credit for prior non-Federal experience and certain military service for leave accrual rates MAY be authorized
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 Engineering Equipment Operator (MVO) without more than normal supervision: Operating a steering road grader, a bulldozer, backhoe, tractor and dump trucks.
Physical Effort:
Engineering Equipment Operation: Heavy physical effort is used in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle controls. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration, jolting, and jerking of equipment over terrain. Motor Vehicle Operation: Moderate physical effort is required in operating, turning, driving, backing, and dumping trucks and in the operation of other controls.
Working Conditions:
Engineering Equipment Operation: This work is performed outside in all types of weather, in open cabs, over rough and rocky terrain, swamps, flat land, hills, in dense forest areas, and on steep rises having a wide variety of soil conditions. Incumbent is subject to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, and fumes from motor and exhaust. Motor Vehicle Operation Works outside and is occasionally exposed to injury due to possible overturning of equipment. Is subject to the possibility of serious accident and to cuts, bruises, and broken bones. Is exposed to noise levels above 85dB(A) requiring the use of hearing protection devices
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address FU-W0U4AA US ARMY IMCOM-USAG FT CAMPBELL
DO NOT MAIL
Fort Campbell, KY 42223
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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