- Position Title
- Engineering Equipment Operator
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBTF-12710693-25-PB Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, March 24, 2025 to Friday, April 11, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the facility indicated for this position?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Thank you for your interest in our Engineering Equipment Operator position. Be sure to read and understand the 'Area of Consideration' and the 'Qualifications' for this position before submitting your application. If you have questions please email me at Prudence.Barrett@va.gov.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Do you have the ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision?
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Incumbent will use powered hand operated equipment including, but not limited to, snow blowers, weed eaters, chain saws, augers, jackhammers, tampers and power washing equipment all using safe work practices and applicable PPE. Non-powered hand tools such as shovels, hammers, rakes, and picks will also be used.
3.
Incumbent will also operate a diesel or gasoline powered tractors and associated implements to perform grounds maintenance operations including cutting grass, excavation, backfilling and grading soils in landscaped and non-landscaped areas of the station.
4.
Where required, also performs grounds maintenance, laborer duties.
5.
Do you have the ability to drive motor vehicles safely?
6.
Engineering Equipment Operator will operate equipment such as backhoes, forklifts, aerial lift platforms, skid loaders, wheel loaders, brush chippers and excavators.
7.
Required to know the different sets of controls and the differences in the patterns of them. Operators are required to be able to use these controls to apply the implements and attachments of the equipment in the prescribed manner for the task at hand.
8.
Monitors and reviews equipment, structures, materials, events, and environment to detect and assess problems. Identifies the cause and evaluates options for the best solution.
9.
Inspects equipment per manufacturers requirements to ensure proper operation and safe condition.
10.
Required to have a thorough knowledge of the nature of soil and backfill materials as well as how to operate equipment on differing terrain as well as uneven surfaces such as slopes and hills. This will include steep drop off areas near the shoreline, rocky areas, soft or spongy ground which in many cases will require the operator to adjust leveling devices during the operation.
11.
Often machines are required to work in confined areas, near buildings, tunnels, vehicles and co-workers so operators must be capable of and comfortable with operating in those situations. This will include, but is not limited to, roads, walks, parking areas, pipe lines such as steam, condensate, water, sewer, electric, telephone and fiber optics.
12.
Responsible for keeping the equipment clean and in good running condition. All problems and issues related to service or repair should be reported to the Heavy Equipment Mechanic and to the Grounds Shop Foreman.
13.
Incumbent will also operate bucket trucks, trenchers, dump trucks, snow plows, and trash trucks, many of which will require a CDL class B license (26,001 lbs.) at minimum.
14.
Requires a high level of hand-eye coordination.
15.
Possesses a high level of knowledge regarding the limitations of the equipment and how to apply best practices to maximize effectiveness.
16.
Requires a high level of skill and feel so that no damage to existing or adjacent buildings or utilities occurs during the operation.
17.
Requires practical skill and knowledge of grounds keeping practices, snow removal, roadway maintenance and repair and utility excavations.
18.
Incumbent must possess the knowledge, skill and ability to operate a variety of heavy equipment such as those used in the maintenance and repair of the grounds, roadways, walkways, parking areas and buildings that fall within the responsibilities of the Grounds Section.
19.
Required to lubricate and make minor repairs to tractors, implements and attachments.
20.
Reports any damaged or unsafe equipment to supervisor immediately upon recognition.
21.
Responsible for, and must carry out, daily preventive maintenance of the equipment to which they are assigned. This includes lubrication by oiling or greasing, checking of fluid levels, adding proper fluids as necessary, checking and adjusting tire pressures as well as other minor adjustments concerning cutting heights, blade settings, vacuum inlet heights etc.
22.
Engineering Equipment Operators will also use equipment designed for lifting themselves and other workers. These aerial platforms are often complex in nature and require a high level of consciousness at all times, but especially when operated at extended heights.
23.
Incumbent is responsible for the performance of all duties and the safe and efficient operation of all assigned equipment at all times.
24.
Adheres to procedures, regulations and guidelines while minimizing errors and safety risks.
25.
Operators will also use machines designed for lifting or hoisting when moving objects or positioning valves, hydrants, pipes, condensing units. These objects may be on pallets or possibly rigged for lifting with chains, cables or straps.
26.
Proper care and precaution shall be used when operating all equipment, but especially aerial platforms, in windy and/or rainy conditions.
27.
Many times, these lifting or hoisting operations occur out of the line of sight of the operator, which requires a knowledge of hand signals and the ability to operate safely using them alone as a guide. This will require operators to have a high level of concentration as the operation will usually occur with coworkers in close proximity.
28.
Engineering Equipment Operators must be able to carry out instructions, both written and oral, as well as applying best practices for safety to those directions.
29.
Responsible for being constantly alert and keenly aware of their surroundings when operating equipment or traveling on the roadways with vehicle traffic
30.
Responsible for using all assigned machinery on or around unstable or uneven surfaces including steep grades, trench banks, slopes and rocky terrain.