Materials Examiner & Identifier (Forklift Operator)

Responsibilities

• Receives, verifies, sorts, classifies, warehouses, and issues a variety of excess surplus property.
• Conducts extensive review, research, verification, and receipt 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) 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.
• Ensures proper certification is attached to turn-in document when demilitarized by host or generating activity.
• Performs daily inspection and maintenance and completes appropriate forms.
• Responsible for the pre-receipt/inspection/receipt/storage/safeguarding/handling of hazardous property.
• Performs pre-receipt examination of property on site at the generation point.
• 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; 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.
• Bargaining Unit Status: No.
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain licenses and/or certifications required by the installation, federal, state, and local laws.
• Multiple Location/Shift: This position may be used to fill various shifts located within DLA Disposition Services/Joint Base Lewis-McChord (Pierce) WA.
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities.

Qualifications

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying. 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. Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Physical Effort

• 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.
• Must be able to lift property weighing up to 50 pounds and shift/relocate other heavy materials using appropriate material handling equipment.

Working Conditions

• Work is done inside and outside for long durations (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 may be 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.

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.