MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position in located at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC), in Tacoma, WA.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 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) MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR ~ without more than normal supervision.

To meet the screen out element applicants should document experience where they are able to perform common Motor Vehicle Operator tasks to include operating gasoline powered vehicles such as a van or car in order to transport passengers; and performing maintenance on vehicles.

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

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 Physical Effort: Work requires the use of arms, feet, and legs to operate hand and foot controls.

Truck driving requires moderate physical effort in the frequent handling of heavier objects weighing up to 70 pounds, while loading cargo with the assistance of other workers or weight handling equipment.

Considerable physical effort may be required to change tires, and to make limited emergency repairs.

There is some physical effort used when loading or unloading the vehicle, walking, reaching, bending and turning when performing driver's maintenance to vehicle.

Working Conditions: Incumbent operates either from an office or from the vehicle in an enclosed cab, but drives in all types of traffic and weather conditions and is exposed to the possibility of serious accidents.

Drives on steep winding grades. Drives in heavy traffic and at highway speeds over complicated road and interchange systems.

Operator is subject to cuts, bruises, and broken bones or worse as a result of accidents while driving. Major Duties:

• Provide transportation services within a healthcare environment.
• Operate a shuttle van to safely transport patients, staff, and visitors.
• Manage the storage, loading and unloading, and security of materials and equipment.
• Perform emergency repairs on one or more types of automotive vehicles.
• Provides customer assistance to any visitors and answers phones when not involved in linen duties
• Receives linen for cleaning, storage and/or issue from commercial laundry vendors and outlying clinics.
• Stores clean linen on linen shelves or other designated areas
• Accurately count and identify linen to fulfill linen orders.
• Accurately complete linen inventories by identifying and counting linen items.