Processing Technician (Office Automation)

Full Job Description

About the Position: The Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) is a small organization with a mission critical to our national defense.

Our job is to process applicants for all five services into the armed forces. The job is both challenging and rewarding.

For most new military service members, processing through the MEPS is the first real exposure to a military operation.

For that reason, we seek customer-oriented employees with a desire to serve their country in a meaningful way.

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.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees 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-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) 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 Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Proficiency Required: This position requires a qualified typist.

A qualified typist can type 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes preparing and processing travel orders through an automated system; making travel arrangements for personnel; fingerprinting applicants and/or processing fingerprints electronically; interviewing applicants to obtain and verify data.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).

OR Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60.

Add the two percentages.

PLEASE NOTE: For GS-05: Candidates may be advanced without time restriction to positions up to GS-05 if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade the employee held within the preceding 52 weeks under his or her latest non-temporary competitive appointment.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Computer Literacy Oral Communication Transportation Major Duties:

• As a Processing Technician for the a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), you will provide administrative assistance with transportation of recruits from the MEPS. Additionally, you will:
• Prepare transportation orders.
• Coordinate travel arrangements.
• Conduct the pre-enlistment and/or the pre-accession interviews of applicants in order to gather information.
• Verify data for final data processing of forms and records for entry into the military service.
• Maintain records of orders; distributes copies of transportation orders and enlistment contracts.
• Consolidate and input data into an automated web-based program.