Materials Examiner & Identifier

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. 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: Work is performed on hard surface and in areas that require standing, stooping, bending, lifting and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions.

Frequently lifts and carries items weighing 40 pounds, obtains assistance from others or uses materials handling equipment for items weighing over 40 pounds. Work requires dexterity for operating MHE.

Employee may be subject to temperature variances.

Is required to wear safety shoes and back belt when operating MHE like forklifts, tugs, general purpose warehouse vehicles, aisle mobile hybrid crane vehicles, etc.

Working Conditions: Work is performed within a warehousing environment and outside in containment areas on a year round basis. Work is usually performed in areas that are hot, cold, or damp.

Conditions may be uncomfortable when operating the aisle hybrid mobile crane near the ceiling. Maybe exposed to dusty, dirty or greasy conditions.

Individuals maybe exposed to cuts, scrapes, bruises, abrasions, etc.

While operating the aisle hybrid mobile crane, worker is required to wear special safety equipment, safety shoes, repelling harness, etc. Major Duties:

• Serves as a Materials Examiner and Identifier handling techniques and procedures required for the processing of hazardous and toxic materials, and other sensitive, critical, and controlled type commodities.
• Examines and identifies the most complex and difficult items received by the Site.
• Serves as an authoritative source and possesses seasoned knowledge and experience with ability to detect defects in conspicuous places.
• Resolves problems with damaged shipments and determines whether to accept/ reject, suspend item, or forward to property disposal.
• Incumbent is delegated the authority to make final determinations on the acceptance of materiel.
• Incumbent is delegated independent responsibility, or assigning condition classification, shelf-life codes, and the determination whether to repair or to dispose of the material.
• Operates materials handling equipment to move, load and unload, stack or unstack palletized materials, supplies and equipment.