Job Summary

About the Position: Position is located in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, Water Resources Division, Floating Plant Section. Serves as a deckhand on floating plant to include derrick boat, crane barge, patrol vessels, and survey vessels that operate in protected and unprotected waters to include the Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, and Dismal Swamp Canal.

Job Description

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a Deckhand without more than normal supervision which includes: Performing common hull maintenance and cleaning, sweeping, mopping decks and bulkheads, and maintaining floating plant machinery and metal interior and exterior structures. Preparing vessels for movement and assembling rigging to lift and move loads. Safely operating various tools and equipment such as chainsaws, hammers, circular saw, jigsaw, drills, pike pole, deck crane, winch, and davits. Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Job Elements: The skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal characteristics listed below are important to succeed in the job: Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision (Screen-out Element) Operation of Motor Vehicles Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order) Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (related to mobile equipment operation) Ability to Drive Safely (Motor Vehicles) Ability To Operate Safely (Non-Motor Vehicle) Reliability and Dependability as a Deckhand PHYSICAL EFFORT: Incumbent required to lift 50 lbs and sustained strenuous physical effort when operating chainsaw (20 lbs); deploying and retrieving scientific and surveying equipment (50 lbs) over the side of a boat; loading and unloading supplies and equipment from other vessels, barges, and land; washing, scrubbing scraping, cleaning and painting surfaces; and handling lines. Work requires long periods of standing, lifting, climbing, and walking on a moving platform such as a skiff and boat and rugged terrain. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is performed inside and outside and is subject to extreme weather conditions to include high temperatures, high humidity, low temperatures, high winds, and heavy precipitation. Incumbent is exposed to hazards such as cuts, bruises, loud noises, burns from moving machinery, equipment and tool operations, breaking cables, falls, slippery and tilting surfaces, Hazards that are present when performing duties are from moving machinery, loud noises from equipment/tool operations, breaking cables, slippery and tilting surfaces, going up and down stairs and ladders, strains in lifting, pulling, eye injuries from chipping paint and rust, exposed to dust, fumes, and heat; and possible of drowning or falling overboard. Work is performed on boats that operate in various sea conditions that cause the boat to rock back and forth and incumbent is required to continue to perform duties. Areas on vessels are confined and require climbing ladders and entering and exiting through hatches and port holes that are 15 inches in width.