Engineering Equipment Operator Leader.

About the Role

Serves as a working leader of 8 or more employees in accomplishing trades and labor work.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that needed plans, blueprints, materials, and tools are available, and that needed stock is obtained from supply locations.
• Checks work in progress and when finished for compliance with supervisor's instructions on work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines; urges or advises other employees to follow instructions and meet deadlines.
• Answers workers' questions regarding procedures, policies, written instructions, and other directives.
• Serves as the Hand Receipt Holder.
• Operates a variety of heavy equipment such as front-end loaders, graders, backhoes, brush cutters, vacuum and magnetic sweepers, and bulldozers.
• Completes assigned work using appropriate engineering equipment while following all safety regulations and guidelines.
• Works on your own initiative under general supervision.
• Assures that environmental, safety, and housekeeping rules are followed.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires you to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Incumbent may be required to work nights, weekends, and/or rotational shifts.
• Incumbent must respond to emergency calls after regular working hours.
• Incumbent must be able to obtain and keep current a valid state driver's license and any government operator's permit for the class of vehicles operated.
• Mission Essential: Incumbent is required to report for duty during inclement weather, natural disasters, and other emergency situations and may be required to remain on duty after the official shift ends.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 10% of the time.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Qualifications

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 Engineering Equipment Operator Leader without more than normal supervision. Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

Physical Effort

Work involves strenuous, heavy physical effort and 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 require frequent adjustment. Often the terrain causes more adverse operating conditions than work on flat or rolling terrain. The constant vibration of the equipment and jerking and jolting from operating over rough surfaces causes considerable strain. Moderate physical effort is expended in operating forklifts and skid steers. Frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions due to the location of the controls and attachments.

Working Conditions

Majority of 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. Protective devices such as earplugs, safety glasses, gloves, hard hat, and safety shoes are required. Long trousers or coveralls and shirt or tee shirt with sleeves are worn.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.