Materials Handler (Fire Support)

Summary

This position is located This position is located within a National Interagency Support Cache (NISC) located on a Region 2 Forest Service unit. This position involves warehousing and materials handling activities that include receiving, storing, repairing, refurbishing, and shipping supplies, equipment, and materials. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Humberto Ontiveros at [email protected].

Duties

• Serves as a NISC fleet manager responsible for coordinating with GSA and USDA Fleet Management Specialists on replacing, servicing and repairing policies and procedures for vehicles and equipment assigned to the Fire Program.
• Consolidates monthly vehicle reports and cost coding for fire vehicles and submits information to the appropriate fleet management personnel.
• Manages the transportation fleet used to deliver emergency equipment and supplies. Coordinates maintenance, inspection.
• Coordinates record keeping for a fleet of vehicles such as semi-trailers, two-axle semi-trucks, cargo vans, 3⁄4 ton pick-up trucks, and various emergency rental agreement vehicles need for emergency incident support.
• Conduct spot, cyclic and annual inventories of stock on hand, perform causative research and reports reasons for overages, shortages, or wrong locations.
• Performs a variety of duties involved in packing for shipment or storage of special operation materials or equipment, including bulky, large, heavy items, or items of a sensitive or pilferable in nature.
• Operates electric, gasoline, and propane powered forklift trucks capable of lifting loads up to and including 6,000 pounds to a height of 144 inches.
• Trains and certifies assigned employees in the safe operation of various forklifts and other material handling devices.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Wage System Qualifications Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. 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. Note on Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position. Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to perform the duties of the position rather than length of experience. Eligibility will be determined by relevance, scope, and quality of overall experience and training, regardless of where or how acquired. Applicants will be ranked and rated based on their knowledge of the job elements identified below: Screen-out Job Element: Applicants must show the Ability to do the Work of the Position Without More than Normal Supervision. Applicants who do not meet the screen-out job elements will not be further evaluated. In addition to the above requirements, applicants will be ranked and rated based on their knowledge of the job elements identified below: Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order) Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (other than blueprints) Knowledge of Materials Dexterity and Safety To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt. Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check. Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. This is a drug testing designated position. You will be subject to pre-employment and random drug testing. Appointment is based on a negative result. This announcement constitutes 30 days advance notice. If selected, you must register with the DOT Clearinghouse as a driver at https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/Register and complete a Query Consent. You must respond to the consent within 24 hours. Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license to operate motor vehicles upon entry on duty. Must possess and maintain a valid Class A commercial driver's license within one year of employment. Required to attain and maintain HAZMAT handling and transportation certification in accordance with 49 CFR regulations, within one year of initial employment. Must be a certified forklift operator in accordance with OSHA standards and be able to pass an operator's test, read traffic signs, and complete trip tickets, within one year of initial employment.

How to apply

Please view Tips for Applicants - a guide to the Forest Service application process. Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Mountain Time Zone, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing date for an alternate method. All hardship application packages must be complete and submitted no later than noon ET on the closing date of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and attach your resume and all required documents. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.