Laborer

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position performs a variety of general laboring and routine maintenance duties in support of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facilities and recreational areas.

Major duties

• Perform routine maintenance duties, including painting, cleaning, debris removal, and minor repairs to facilities and grounds
• Use common hand tools and simple power equipment to perform general laboring and maintenance tasks.
• Maintain park and recreational areas by mowing grass, trimming vegetation, pulling weeds, raking leaves, and removing litter.
• Loads, unloads, moves, and arranges materials, supplies, furniture, and equipment using hand trucks or wheelbarrows
• Perform custodial duties, including sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, and cleaning restrooms, buildings, and public-use areas.
• Assist higher-graded maintenance personnel with routine repairs and maintenance of park facilities, equipment, and recreational structures.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a Laborer WG-3502-2 without more than normal supervision. Qualified applicants must show in their resume the knowledge, skills, and abilities to do the work of a Laborer , WG-3502-2, to include tasks such as: washing vehicles, utilizing simple hand tools, and/or mowing grass using a power or riding mower. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating. To meet the basic eligibility, you must receive at least two points on the screen-out element indicated above and must have an average of two points on all the job elements listed below. Your application will be further evaluated to determine if you meet the best qualified cut-off for referral to the selecting official. In addition to the screen-out element, you will be evaluated on the following Job elements on the basis of your level of competency through your resume and responses to the on-line assessment questionnaire. JOB ELEMENTS: The skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal characteristics listed below are important to succeed in the job: PHYSICAL EFFORT: Moderate effort is involved in occasionally lifting and carrying heavy objects (weighing about 50 pounds); frequently lifting and carrying moderately heavy objects (about 40 pounds); frequently moving or pushing trash receptacles, picnic tables, lawn mowers, etc. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is usually performed outdoors with frequent exposure to long periods of hot sun. Subject to cuts, bruises, fumes, burns, etc., in performing maintenance and to more serious injuries when working on rip rap and dam slopes.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html