Engineering Equipment Operator

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) & Major Range & Test Facilities Base (MRTFB) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: Serve as an Engineering Equipment Operator responsible for the operation of various engineering equipment to perform cutting, grading, digging, compacting, excavating, and leveling earth, sand, stone, and other materials.

Who May Apply: US Citizens 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 a(n) Engineering Equipment Operator ~ without more than normal supervision.

Safely operating and maneuvering grading equipment such as front-end loaders and tractors with dozers, in the leveling of soil, filling trenches, and/or snow removal.

Equipment is used on flat or rolling terrain or construction sites with simple terrain problems for rough specification work.

- Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

PHYSICAL EFFORT: Work involves heavy physical effort in pushing, pulling, and depressing various levers, clutches, and breaks.

Such work involves continuous control changes to maneuver engineer equipment.

The operator in reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments uses physical effort.

Lifts and carries items weighing up to 45 lb. The constant vibration of the equipment causes considerable strain and the jerking and jolting caused by operating over rough surfaces.

Because of the location of some of the controls and attachments, frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Nature of work is dirty and noisy, often in an open driver's seat. Works outdoors in all weather conditions, including periods of extreme heat and cold.

Works in uneven hills, slopes, grades, and rolling terrain.

Equipment operating involves danger from various types of accidents, such as might result from overturning, breaking cables, or swinging loads.

Subject to injuries from using hand tools in maintaining equipment. Subject to noise, vibration, dust, dirt, and fumes from the motor and exhaust.

Work is performed close to buildings, trees, working personnel, on all types of terrain, and works to either rough or fine specification. Major Duties:

• Operate engineering equipment to perform cutting, grading, digging, compacting, excavating, and leveling earth, sand, stone, and other materials.
• Grade surfaces to rough or fine specifications, on all types of terrain.
• Remove snow from road and parking lots.
• In an emergency operates under the direction of the department to cut new fire breaks or help fight fire in other ways such as smothering or removing a structure, etc.
• Spray herbicides from mounted spraying apparatus, a backpack apparatus or from truck-mounted apparatus to control the growth of invasive and other undesirable vegetation, next to structures and rail tracks, in channels and canals.