Job Summary

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 is a permanent position as an Engineering Equipment Operator with the Directorate of Public Works (DPW) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Job Description

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 a(n) Engineering Equipment Operator ~ without more than normal supervision. I have the ability to perform common operator maintenance on road and firebreak with motor grader equipment; completing trip tickets, preventive maintenance service records, and operator's accident reports. I can operate one or more types of heavy duty engineering equipment on flat or rolling terrain, and construction sites that have simple terrain problems, grading to rough specifications; Operating one ore more types of light equipment engineering including crawler tractor (5-ton) with blade and farm tractors with various attachments in shaping, leveling, fertilizing, seeding, and dragging areas for erosion control and aesthetic purposes; preparing drawings and landscape plans. I work under normal supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed. I also have the ability to use basic handle tools.- Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Physical Effort: Work involves strenuous, heavy physical effort in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments. Work is performed on large pieces of equipment, which requires frequent adjustments. Often the terrain causes more adverse operating conditions than work on flat or rolling terrain. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment and jerking and jolting from operating over rough surfaces. Frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions due to location of the controls and attachments. Working Conditions: Work is performed outside, in all types of weather, often in an open driver's seat or platform, on hills, slopes, grades, rolling surfaces and forests. Operator is constantly exposed to injury due to the possibility of the equipment overturning while working on rough and uneven terrain. Subject to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, and fumes from the motor and exhaust.