Materials Handler

Full Job Description

This position serves as a Material Handler for the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) - Tucson and is located in Tucson Arizona, with responsibility for the proper receipts, storage and will issue all supplies and equipment.

PHYSICAL EFFORT: Position requires working on hard surfaces, in tiring and uncomfortable positions, and standing for long periods of time.

Routinely engages in stooping, bending, turning and lifting heavy supplies and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.

Heavier items are moved with weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers. WORK CONDITIONS: Work is performed in a warehouse setting.

Work is done inside or outside in areas that may be hot, damp, cold, drafty or poorly lit.

Employee is regularly exposed to the possibility of cuts, scrapes, bruises, abrasions, falls and injury from falling stock.

The work may require wearing protective clothing such as steel-toed shoes, hard hat, and other safety equipment as necessary.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications.

For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for.

Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success.

Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1).

Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration.

The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements.

While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Dexterity and Safety Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading) Materials Technical Practices Without more than normal supervision Work Practices IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week.

All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

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. Major Duties:

Major duties include: Matches shipping documents with receipts; Logs shipment, receipt and storage of stock; Maintains proper storage of items after processing; Maintains accurate inventory and routinely spot checks a representative number of items each month; Applies knowledge of warehouse plans, methods, procedures, and techniques of material handling; Performs related duties as required.

Work Schedule: Varied 8 hour shift from 4:30am - 12:00am. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized.