Engineering Equipment Operator

Summary This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Operates Engineering Equipment, small crafts, and performs a variety of skilled duties involved in the operation, maintenance and repair of district facilities including lock equipment, navigation structures, and buildings and grounds, requiring the use of various trade practices. Responsibilities Operates Engineering Equipment, operates small watercraft, and performs a variety of skilled duties. Operates a wheel loader at a stone storage facility to stack, remove, and move 3 to 18 ton armor stones between storage piles and barge-loading crane working position. Operates a bulldozer moving dredge material to effectively utilize the full capacity of the facility and prepare for future dredge material disposal operations. Operates track loaders and excavators to clear steep jagged shoreline areas consisting of high mounds of concrete debris, vegetation growth, trees and tree stumps. Operate soil compactor to compact and annually re-grade stone storage facility crane lane next to the dock. Operates track loader with bucket, blade, and trencher on uneven and muddy terrain to construct new gravel roadways. Operates skid steer loaders on emptied deck barges to remove small rock fragments to small to be removed by crane. Operate small watercrafts such as motor boats to ferry personnel and supplies to offshore facilities to perform work. Responsible for safety of vessel, passengers, and cargo. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications 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. 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. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Specialized Experience WG-8: The ability to perform the most difficult and complex: clear steep jagged shorelines containing buried concrete debris, trees/tree stumps; move stones on steep slopes, graded curves and shoulders; reuse/reshape soil into berms; operate bulldozer, track loader and excavator close to drop-offs, rocks, or other obstructions. I am considered an expert and work with a high degree of independence. Physical Effort: Heavy physical effort is used by engineering equipment operators in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment. Because of the location of some of the controls and attachments, the operators are frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions. Moderate to heavy physical effort is required, frequently lifting and moving items over 50 pounds, while loading and unloading cargo, and handling heavy equipment, parts and materials. Works from ladders, scaffolds and on platforms in cramped and hard to reach places. Stands, stoops, bends, kneel and climb, and works in awkward, tiring, and uncomfortable positions. Considerable arm movements in cement finishing, painting and carpentry work. Reaching, bending, turning, or moving hands, arms, feet and legs to operate hand and foot controls on equipment and vehicles and constant arm and leg movements to operate equipment and attachments to compensate for terrain features and to maintain balance and position at the controls. Working Conditions: Heavy mobile wheeled and track loaders, excavators, and skid-steer loader operators primarily work in enclosed cabs in all types of weather on flat or rolling surfaces. Workers operate bulldozers from both open and enclosed driver's seat. The operators are exposed to injury due to the possibility of the equipment overturning. They are subject to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, and fumes from the motor and exhaust. In other duties works inside and outside exposed to all weather conditions, in dusty, dirty, drafty, greasy, oily, damp, muddy, or noisy conditions. Work is field oriented and more than half of work is outside. Worker must be able to work in direct sunlight in 90 degree Fahrenheit temperatures as there is little shade on Corps of Engineers piers and breakwaters. Work may involve walking and working on wet and slippery surfaces extending out into Lake Michigan and requires the utmost attention to wave action and surroundings as there are no protective railings. Wearing of a life jacket is required whenever work is not performed behind railings so as to minimize the risk of falls into the water causing drowning. Travel to and from job sites is by auto or truck and occasionally by boat. Indoor work areas are frequently inadequately heated and cooled. Exposed to dirt, fumes, toxic vapors and spray, disagreeable odors, and dust. Subject to possible serious injury from falls or from hand or power tools used. Subject to cuts, bruises, insect bites and stings, scrapes, burns, infections, and broken bones. Discomfort is experienced while wearing protective equipment and clothing, respirators, goggles, or facemasks. May be required to work uncommon tour of duty. Occasionally work may need to be performed in confined spaces. Worker wearing a safety harness may need to be lowered down by safety winch into the confined space. Education Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a background investigation. Direct deposit of pay is required. This is a(n) Engineer and Scientists Career Field position, Career Program 18. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.