Job opening: Materials Handler (Motor Vehicle Operator/Forklift Operator)
Salary: $27 - 31 per hour
Published at: Nov 18 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.
About the Position: To provide and maintain excellent infrastructure and services with a customer-focused, quality-driven, and responsive team.
Duties
Performs a variety of warehousing tasks within the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area, Training Support Center, Devens, Massachusetts.
Performs duties in support of the receipt, issue, inspecting, testing, and warehousing.
Provides customers with classroom, hands on, written, or other training, as necessary, on the full range of equipment within the Training Support Center inventory.
Drives trucks with up to five ton capacity. Hauls articles and materials on and off post on public roads and highways, to maintenance repair facilities, and Defense Re-utilization Marketing Office.
Requirements
- Appointment to this position is subject to a background investigation to determine your suitability for Federal employment.
- The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
- The incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a forklift operator's license and certification.
- This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter.
- Due to the nature of this position, employees are required to work both planned and unscheduled overtime.
- In this position, the incumbent must be able to occasionally work evenings, holidays and week-ends.
- Appointment to this position is subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities
30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
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 an Materials Handler (Motor Vehicle Operator/Forklift Operator) without more than normal supervision. I have the ability to interpret internal standard operating procedures (SOP), higher headquarters regulations and policies pertaining to training support center operations. In-depth knowledge of overall warehouse planning, documentation requirements and accepted warehousing methods, procedures and techniques to properly handle store, stock, issue and palletize equipment and supplies. Ability to perform function checks to insure items are operationally ready for issue. Sufficiently familiar with all systems to instruct units in systems capability, operation and use. Operate warehouse using accepted methods, procedures and techniques. Prepare inventory and production reports, screens and identifies shipping and receiving documents for discrepancies. Skill in the operation of a forklift with less than 10,000-pound capacity to move, stack, un-stack, load, unload materials in and about warehouses, storage areas, loading docks, etc. and drive vehicles with up to a five-ton capacity. Skill in handling the controls for starting, stopping, backing and driving the vehicle, and determining the shortest and safest route. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.
To meet the basic eligibility, you must receive at least two points on the screen-out element indicated above and must have an average of two points on all the job elements listed below. Your application will be further evaluated to determine if you meet the best qualified cut-off for referral to the selecting official.
Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal SupervisionAbility to Drive Safely (Motor Vehicles)Ability to Plan and Organize WorkAbility To Provide Production Support ServicesProduct Evaluation
PHYSICAL EFFORT.
Stands, stoops, bends, and works in tiring and uncomfortable positions. May be required to work at a rapid pace for prolonged periods. Frequently lifts material that weighs up to 70 pounds and at times may handle items weighing over 70 pounds, with assistance. Moderate physical effort is used in operating hand and foot controls while driving, turning, starting and stopping the vehicle.
WORKING CONDITIONS.
Works inside and outside, and is subject to heat, cold, dampness, draft, or poorly lighted areas and works on open docks. Work may be dirty and dusty. Frequently exposed to the possibility of cuts, scrapes and bruises. These working conditions are considered in the evaluation of the job and do not meet criteria for environmental or hazard pay.
Education
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this position, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Contacts
- Address FU-W1DC04 US ARMY IMCOM-USAG FT DIX
DO NOT MAIL
Devens, MA 01434
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
- Email: [email protected]
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