Materials Examiner and Identifier (Fork Lift Operator)

Duties

• Help Receives, verifies, sorts and classifies, warehouses, and issues a variety of excess surplus property.
• Conducts extensive review, research, verification and receipt of a variety of routine and complex property.
• Employs Federal Cataloging Procedures to properly validate or change data elements.
• Certifies that items are eligible for sale.
• Reviews disposal turn-in document (DTID) accompanying material.
• Compares data against property to assure correct information including proper documentation (e.g., stock number, nomenclature, quantity, unit of issue, disposal authority code, DEMIL and condition code).
• Visually inspects usable property for obvious signs of condition and determines acceptability.
• Determines condition and reportability and special handling requirements (e.g., hazardous material, precious metals, security, DEMIL, Special focus items, etc.) and assigns appropriate classification instructions for warehousing.
• Verifies accuracy of demilitarization codes, takes action to challenge questionable items/codes, and maintains segregated storage of property requiring DEMIL.
• Safeguards and handles hazardous property.
• Performs daily inspection and maintenance and completes appropriate forms.
• Operates forklifts and related materials handling equipment to move, load and unload, stack or un-stack palletized materials, supplies, and equipment.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule.
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive.
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt.
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
• Bargaining Unit Status: No.
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required.

Qualifications

• To qualify for a Materials Examiner and Identifier (Fork Lift Operator) your resume and supporting documentation must support:
• Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations.
• Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job.

Physical Conditions

• Climb stacks of property during inspection, pre-receiving and receiving and verification operations, necessitating considerable kneeling, crawling, bending, walking and stooping.
• Physical handling of property will be routine.
• Incumbent must be able to lift property weighing up to 50 pounds and shift/relocate other heavy materials using appropriate material handling equipment.

Work Environment

• Work is done inside and outside for long duration (through breaks, etc. as necessary) to complete immediate tasks.
• Inside work is performed in warehouses which may be drafty or unheated.
• Outside work is subject to inclement weather.
• Discomfort is experienced while wearing protective clothing, respirators, goggles or face masks.
• Worker may be exposed to hazardous vapors, liquids, powders and solids and the possibility of cuts and bruises.
• May be subject to hazards of working close to moving equipment, for example, forklifts, trucks and conveyor lines.