Duties

Summary

About the Position: Transports personnel, articles and equipment between locations on post and on trips to outside locations over public roads.
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Responsibilities

• Regularly lifts equipment weighing up to 75 pounds. Moderate physical effort is required in reaching, bending turning or moving hands, arms, feet and legs to operate hand and foot controls.
• Drives all vehicles including up to 53-foot tandem axle semi-tractor trailers, 55 passenger motor coaches, 28-foot box trucks, military 8-15 passenger vans, and 5 passenger staff cars.
• May serve as dispatcher. Dispatcher duties include, but are not limited to, receiving and processing requests for vehicles and drivers, and assigning drivers to ensure best use of manpower and mission accomplishment.
• Assists loading and unloading of vehicles.
• Performs first user maintenance: keeping tires inflated, adding coolant fuel and oil, changing tires, keeping vehicle clean, inspecting for loose connections, leaks, etc.
• Performs other miscellaneous duties pertinent to operation of the Motor Pool such as washing vehicles, cleaning and maintaining building, etc.
• Transports GSA leased/owned vehicles to and from contracted maintenance shop in the local area.
• Assists set-up crew with duties such as but are not limited to: setting up main speaker system; running main line cables from staging area to mix position; matting and taping down cables to ensure safety.
• Assists with additional transportation needs, such as medical emergencies, airport pick-ups, deliveries, and courier tasks.

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
8

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to work flex time schedule, to include weekends, as required by Field Band mission.
• The incumbent is required to sign a DA Form 5019-R and must pass urinalysis testing, as required prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• Must posses and maintain a valid Class-A Commercial Drivers License (CDL-A) with P (Passenger) endorsement. CDL and DOT medical card must be kept on file. Must be able to pass the government Defensive Driving Course (DDC) and update as required.
• Must present current traffic record from MVA (printed within the last 30 days) and have no suspensions and no points. Traffic record review will be required once per quarter.

Qualifications

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
• Current Permanent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) 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 an Motor Vehicle Operator without more than normal supervision.

Ability to operate 53 foot semi-tractor trailers, 55-passenger motor coaches, 28 foot box trucks, 15-passenger vans, and 5-passenger staff cars; performing first user maintenance (inflating tires, adding coolant, stocking vehicles with safety equipment, cleaning vehicles, inspecting for leaks and loose connections, etc.); inspecting repair work; assisting crew with setting up equipment (such as electrical/audio connections); completing risk assessment reports; assisting with training other drivers; and loading vehicles. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

• Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (Screen-out Element)
• Ability To Inspect
• Dexterity and Safety
• Operation of Motor Vehicles
• Vehicle Maintenance

• Physical effort is required to operate the larger vehicles and to operate various additional controls. Physical effort is required when loading and unloading vehicles, maneuvering large wheeled cases weighing up to 250 pounds, sometimes on grades, stairs and on varying surfaces, such as pavement, sand, gravel and grass. Regularly lifts equipment weighing up to 75 pounds. Moderate physical effort is required in reaching, bending turning or moving hands, arms, feet and legs to operate hand and foot controls.
• The position requires working inside and working outside in all types of weather. Drives in all types of traffic, weather and road conditions and is thus exposed to the possibility of serious accidents. Operator is subject to cuts, bruises, and broken bones as a result of accidents while driving or loading/unloading vehicles.

Education

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Two year trial/probationary period may be required.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• This is a Career Program (CP) 24 - Transportation and Distribution Management position.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your résumé and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Not Required

Drug test required
Yes

Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determination process
National security

Required Documents

The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Merit Checklist and Proof of Eligibility .

As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

• Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
• For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
• For additional information see: What to include in your resume .

2. Other supporting documents:

• Cover Letter, optional
• Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
• Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your application must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and what document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of at least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further consideration.
• This position requires a job-related license or certification. You MUST submit a copy of your license or certification with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses

NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.