Seasonal - Engineering Equipment Operator

Full Job Description

This position is a Engineering Equipment Operator, WG- 5716-8 working with the West Tennessee Refuge Complex in Henning, Tennessee or Ripley, Tennessee.

Only experience and education obtained by 01/20/2026 will be considered.

In order to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Handbook X118C, Job Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupation.

http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c/ Although no specific amount of experience, education or training is required, applicants must meet a minimum level of ability in relation to the position and the Assessment Questionnaire in order to be rated qualified for consideration.

To be qualified candidates must meet any screen out element(s) listed at an "acceptable" level, and must achieve an average rating of at least "acceptable" on all of the elements.

Only education, training, or experience acquired before the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire.

Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated.

The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements.

The screen out element for this position is the ability to perform the work of an Engineering Equipment Operator without more than normal supervision.

These duties may include: Operating one or more types of heavy equipment (such as backhoes, skid steers, tractors, road graders) on flat or rolling terrain, or construction sites with simple terrain problems, to push, pull, pile, or load materials such as sand, gravel, earth, or refuse.

Ability to maneuver the equipment into position and move it about in less confined areas.

Perform minor maintenance/repair work to building, facilities, and equipment requiring basic use of hand and power tools.

Ability to follow instructions and specifications to accomplish work without more than normal supervision.

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:

This is a temporary appointment intended for seasonal work that is less than 6 months or 1040 hours from the date of appointment/service year.

It is expected this position will be terminated upon completion of the seasons work.

The agency may non-competitively rehire an eligible temporary seasonal worker in subsequent years who works less than 6 months or 1040 hours in their service year.

As a Seasonal - Engineering Equipment Operator your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following: Operates bulldozer, angle dozer, or other attachments to push refuse into an open pit or to fill in demolished building sites and cover with earth, to clean ditches, to fill holes in dikes, or to excavate ditches and ponds.

Operates farm tractors with auxiliary equipment for farming, mowing, maintaining dikes, and other related activities.

Operates crawler tractor in forested terrain in piling of slash, clearing brush, small trees, tree stumps, and rocks, and developing fire lanes.

Operates front-end attachments to remove piles of dirt, to load trucks, or for the digging of earth or gravel.

Conducts disking, chopping, mowing, rotovating, digging, loading and leveling to a rough grade for the purpose of ditch cleaning, culvert installation, creating and maintaining trails and fire breaks, patching potholes, and piling slash for various purposes.

Performs minor repairs which include replacement of hoses, belts, fuses, light bulbs, etc.

that do not require dismantling large components of the equipment such as radiators, hydraulic tanks, alternators, tracks, etc.

Services equipment by checking fluids, lubricating, and performing safety checks.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: Physical Effort: Very strenuous effort is required in the operation and frequent adjustment of large pieces of equipment and attachments, often under adverse operating conditions.

Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment and the jolting received from operation of the equipment over rough surfaces.

Location of the controls and attachments frequently requires work in awkward or strained positions. Daily equipment servicing requires bending, stooping, kneeling, and lifting of heavy objects.

The employee frequently lifts, carries, and sets up parts and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds unassisted, and over 50 pounds with assistance.

The employee uses jacks, pulleys, dollies, or other lifting and carrying devices. Work may be from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, or high places, and in hard-to-reach places.

Frequent arm and leg movements are required to operate controls, make repairs, and build items. Working Conditions: Work is performed in all types of weather often in an open driver's seat.

Due to operations of large and complicated equipment, often in rough terrain, the operator is exposed to injury resulting from equipment overturning, and is subject to noise, vibration, dust, and fumes from machinery.

Caution must be exercised to avoid injury from moving machinery and breaking cables, and other difficult circumstances.