Materials Handler (Motor Vehicle Operator)

Summary

This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Hampton VA Medical Center (VAMC), in Environmental Management Service (EMS). The primary purpose of the position involves transporting, setting up, preparation, and staging of furniture in locations throughout the Hampton VAMC, including the Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs).

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Overview

• Accepting applications

• Open & closing dates

06/11/2024 to 06/27/2024

• Salary

$21.09 - $24.61 per hour

• Pay scale & grade

WG 5

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Location

1 vacancy in the following location:

• Hampton, VA 1 vacancy

• Remote job

No

• Telework eligible

No

• Travel Required

Not required

• Relocation expenses reimbursed

No

• Appointment type

Permanent

• Work schedule

Full-time

• Service

Competitive

• Promotion potential

None

• Job family (Series)

6907 Materials Handler

• Supervisory status

No

• Security clearance

Not Required

• Drug test

No

• Position sensitivity and risk

Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

• Trust determination process

Suitability/Fitness

• Announcement number

CBTA-12441729-24-RS

• Control number

795235000

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This job is open to

• Internal to an agency

Current federal employees of this agency.

Clarification from the agency

This vacancy is only open to VISN 6 employees.

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Duties

Laboring

Works closely with Interior Designer, personnel from Engineering Service, and personnel from Contract Service. Involves lifting and moving very heavy furniture, equipment, and supplies to support the Interior Designer. Performs duties that continually involve extremely heavy physical effort. Routinely lifts and carry objects weighing over 50 pounds with little/no assistance, required to occasionally lift and carry heavy objects weighing up to 100 pounds with assistance. The work requires the use of a pallet jack, Cushman electric carts and motor vehicles on a regular basis. Works and collaborates with interior designers on proper furnishings that meet infection control requirements, standardized goals, as well as provide well-coordinated furniture compatible with floors, walls, and patient needs.

Reads, understands, and apply instructions contained in various manuals and Interior Design layouts; also adjust the layout and work site to effectively and safely use furnishings daily. May perform interior repairs, surface preparation and touchup painting of surfaces as needed. Touchup materials include paint, varnish, lacquer, shellac, epoxy resin, plaster and Teflon. Surfaces on which touchup materials are applied to wood, metal, glass, synthetic, concrete and other surfaces. Touch up work is done with brushes, rollers, spray guns, and other related methods and techniques. Maintains the aesthetic appearance of interiors in all buildings, and recommends replacement of unserviceable furnishings as the need arises.

Motor Vehicle Operator

Operates one or more vehicles (based on availability) including pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, and cab pickup trucks which will have an approximate weight up to 4,500 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Loads and unloads the vehicles by hand, sometimes receiving help from other workers. Ensures the furniture is protected from weather and that is properly distributed and secured to prevent damage or loss during transit. Is responsible for making certain that any furniture being hauled does not exceed the maximum weight allowable for the vehicle being driven.

Material Handler

Inventories the stock of furniture in the designated storage areas, identifies component shortages for replenishment orders, confirms receipt of orders, identifies discrepancies including improper items received, shortage of items delivered, wrong products, damage to shipment, etc. Follows general instructions but independently completes shipping and receiving documents to insure accuracy of furniture and quantities. Uses automated equipment such as optical readers and scanners, as well as computers to develop and maintain an inventory database and fill item requisitions. Is skilled in stacking, moving, and arranging items on pallets and must consider height, weight, and special handling requirements. Uses pallet measuring gauges and automated devices to insure proper height, weight, and other load and storage requirements are met, and damage during both storage and transit are prevented. Operates the pallet jack to lift, load, move, transport, and stack goods and materials contained on pallets, skids, crates, or boxes. Organizes, arranges, and removes stock in storage areas in accordance with established procedures to prevent damage, deterioration, and loss.

Other duties and responsibilities include:

• Receives, stores and ships bin and bulk supplies, materials and equipment;

• Prepares shipping and inventory documents for manual or automated inventory systems;

• Selects specific storage locations within framework of general warehousing plan;

• Rotates stock, check for outdated materials and maintains the appropriate safeguards and temperature controls;

• Handles delivering and warehousing materials including hazardous, flammable and temperature sensitive products;

• Participates in conducting inventory of stock on hand and communicates discrepancies;

• Ensures products and shelving are marked with corresponding identification numbers;

• Load and unload shipments from trucks and other material conveyances;

• Makes off-site deliveries in motor vehicles typically with a gross weight of less than 4500 pounds;

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm (May vary based on the needs of the service)

Position Description/PD#: Materials Handler (Motor Vehicle Operator)/PD028170

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job

• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

• You may be required to serve a probationary period

• Subject to background/security investigation

• Pre-employment physical required

• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/27/2024.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C (www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c). For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element. Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

Minimum Requirement: Experience includes: performing warehouse work involving receiving, storing, selecting and shipping of general or specialized bulk materials and equipment; assisting in developing plans for storage and arrangement of stock; coordinating incoming and outgoing shipments and placement of materials; uses own initiative to consolidate materials, provide maximum space utilization and protection of materials.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIREMENT (Screen Out)
• ABILITY TO DO THE WORK OF THE POSITION WITHOUT MORE THAN NORMAL SUPERVISION (Screen Out)
• WORK PRACTICES
• TECHNICAL PRACTICES
• ABILITY TO INTERPRET INSTRUCTIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS
• KNOWLEDGE OF MATERIALS
• DEXTERITY AND SAFETY

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; 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 involves considerable walking, pushing and pulling a variety of carts and materials handling equipment; offloading and loading trucks, lifting products on and off shelves, handling boxes frequently weighing over 40 pounds; handles equipment, furniture and materials of an awkward and heavier nature in excess of 100 pounds (typically using specialized equipment and/or assistance of co-workers). Greater physical effort may be required on projects involving the movement of large quantities of products over an extended period including turn-ins, large shipments and deliveries. While operating vehicles, may be required to exert a greater level of physical exertion while backing and turning trucks, operating forklifts, or hand trucks on uneven terrains and uncertain conditions.

Working Conditions require working in storage buildings, pods, trailers, vehicles and warehouses that may be hot, cold, drafty and poor lighting; work outdoors, on docks, making deliveries in all types of weather conditions during all seasons; hazardous materials may be encountered in daily work activities; will be subject to the possibility of trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or injury from the use of equipment; may be subject to conditions that could result in serious accidents; personal protective equipment may be required.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

Additional information

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

Financial disclosure not required.

As required by Executive Order 14043, Federal employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of the employee's duty location or work arrangement (e.g., telework, remote work, etc.), subject to such exceptions as required by law. If selected, you will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit documentation of proof of vaccination before your start date. The agency will provide additional information regarding what information or documentation will be needed and how you can request a legally required exception from this requirement using the reasonable accommodation process.

If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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