What are the responsibilities and job description for the Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic position at U.S. Department of the Interior?
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Duties
As the Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic in this position, you will:
Overhaul and perform repairs, services, and maintenance on heavy equipment such as trailers, bulldozers, graders, dump trucks, tractor trucks, excavators, front-end loaders, backhoes, rollers, UTVs, equipment attachments, and similar heavy construction and earth-moving equipment and fleet vehicles in accordance with manufacturers' standards and BLM and General Services Administration (GSA) policies.
Other service/repair duties include troubleshooting and identifying causes of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or electrical operating problems in various types of heavy equipment, tracing and locating defects, and executing required repairs. This position is responsible for maintaining service records and BLM oil analysis sampling programs for individual pieces of fleet equipment and maintenance of shop supplies and tools. Additional work requires welding of plows, buckets, blades, and structural members, and fabrication of parts from raw stock to perform repairs. Incidental to mechanic work, the incumbent occasionally operates mobile equipment such as front-end loaders, graders, bulldozers, and dump trucks in support of road maintenance operations.
Primary location of work is in the National Rangeland Drill Shop located in the Vale BLM District Compound. Duties are primarily shop related, but the nature of the duties require the incumbent to be capable of performing some of the repairs in the field, and will include hours of driving, and extended periods working outside in the elements being exposed to smoke, dust, wind, heat, and cold. Due to the nature of the this position some limited over-night travel away from Vale, Oregon may be required. There are occasions throughout the year where overtime is available, but it is typically on a voluntary basis.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
There is no required length of time of qualifying experience or training. However, your resume must demonstrate enough experience to support the SCREEN-OUT Element of: Your ability to perform the duties of aHeavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic without more than normal supervision. Examples of such experience include: (1) Applying knowledge of the mechanical makeup, operation, and working relationships of heavy-duty systems, assemblies, and parts, including major systems, such as: diesel, multi-fuel, and gasoline engines, supercharges/turbo charged engines to overhaul and rebuild heavy mobile systems and vehicles; (2) Applying knowledge of automatic and manual transmissions and gear reduction systems, including those with torque converters, planetary gears, and more than one gear range to overhaul and rebuild heavy mobile systems and vehicles; (3) Determining how electrical, transistorized, and/or other non-mechanical systems tie in with and affect the operation of mechanical systems; (4) Utilizing electric and gas welders; cutting torches, presses, metal lathes and grinders to make welding repairs; (5) Fabricating simple parts or structural reinforcement; and (6) Utilizing tools of trade including power equipment and electronic test equipment gauges, micrometer, etc.
If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN-OUT Element above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your resume, clearly describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this job. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. Part-time hours are prorated.
Additional SCREEN-OUT Element: This position performs repair, service, and maintenance of heavy equipment and a non-restricted Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement is required. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position.
The applicable qualification standard for this position can be found in the Job Qualifications System for Trades and Labor Occupations (Handbook X-118C) at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).
Volunteer Experience: 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.
Physical Demands: The work of the position requires active physical effort, to include walking, standing, lifting objects up to 50 pounds, stooping, and working in cramped positions. Occasionally, strenuous physical effort is exerted in climbing and carrying and using hand tools in the repair of powered equipment. Manual dexterity is necessary when disassembling, repairing, and reassembling units. Visual and auditory senses are relied upon to coordinate the diagnosis of mechanical failures and
the resulting equipment repairs.
Working Conditions: The incumbent works in areas that are frequently dusty, dirty, and/or greasy, and is exposed to oils, fuels, solvents, noxious gases, and fumes that could result in burns, infections, and cuts. Works is performed both indoors and outdoors. The incumbent must be capable of working satisfactorily in adverse conditions of cold, heat, rain, snow, humidity, and high insect density.
A review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the Occupational Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Occupational Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation, you will be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration for this position.
You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of any additional assessments that may be required for this position.
Education
There is no education requirement or substitution for experience for this position.
Additional information
Tax Law Impact for PCS: Moving expenses reimbursement is a taxable benefit. However, the Federal Travel Regulation 18-05 issued by General Services Administration has authorized agencies to use the Withholding Tax Allowance and Relocation Income Tax Allowance to pay for "substantially all" of the increased tax liability resulting from the "2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" for certain eligible individuals.
Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. If eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocation incentive. The decision to offer an incentive will be made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For information visit: Recruitment Incentive or Relocation Incentive or Student Loan Repayment.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) or Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP or CTAP eligible see http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ctap_guideline.pdf. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 90 or above on the rating criteria for this position.
If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, please contact San Antonio Services Branch at SASBMailbox@opm.gov or 816-541-8101.
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How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You Will Be Evaluated On The Following Competencies
Candidates who apply under Non-Competitive Merit Promotion procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are minimally qualified based on the content of their resume and their responses to the questionnaire. Qualified candidates will be referred if all required supporting documentation has been provided.
Performance Appraisals for Competitive and Non-Competitive Merit Promotion Applicants: In the evaluation process, due weight will be given to job related experience, education, training, incentive awards and performance appraisals. Applicants must submit a performance appraisal with a performance rating of at least the equivalent of fully successful to be eligible for promotion or placement. Applicants may provide a copy of a performance appraisal of record dated within the last 18 months. If the applicant is unable to provide a performance appraisal of record dated within the last 18 months, the applicant may provide a written explanation as to why.
Recruitment incentive awards: Applicants that have received recruitment incentive awards during the last two years, must list them on their resume.
Duties
As the Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic in this position, you will:
Overhaul and perform repairs, services, and maintenance on heavy equipment such as trailers, bulldozers, graders, dump trucks, tractor trucks, excavators, front-end loaders, backhoes, rollers, UTVs, equipment attachments, and similar heavy construction and earth-moving equipment and fleet vehicles in accordance with manufacturers' standards and BLM and General Services Administration (GSA) policies.
Other service/repair duties include troubleshooting and identifying causes of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or electrical operating problems in various types of heavy equipment, tracing and locating defects, and executing required repairs. This position is responsible for maintaining service records and BLM oil analysis sampling programs for individual pieces of fleet equipment and maintenance of shop supplies and tools. Additional work requires welding of plows, buckets, blades, and structural members, and fabrication of parts from raw stock to perform repairs. Incidental to mechanic work, the incumbent occasionally operates mobile equipment such as front-end loaders, graders, bulldozers, and dump trucks in support of road maintenance operations.
Primary location of work is in the National Rangeland Drill Shop located in the Vale BLM District Compound. Duties are primarily shop related, but the nature of the duties require the incumbent to be capable of performing some of the repairs in the field, and will include hours of driving, and extended periods working outside in the elements being exposed to smoke, dust, wind, heat, and cold. Due to the nature of the this position some limited over-night travel away from Vale, Oregon may be required. There are occasions throughout the year where overtime is available, but it is typically on a voluntary basis.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- May be required to complete background investigation.
- Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
- Must provide resume and supporting documents (See required documents) prior to the closing date of this announcement.
- You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
- If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
- Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- You may be required to occasionally travel overnight away from home. You must be eligible to obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
- This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) under the Department of the Interior Drug Free Workplace Program.
- The incumbent of this position must possess a non-restricted Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with tanker endorsement.
- Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions may affect your rating.
There is no required length of time of qualifying experience or training. However, your resume must demonstrate enough experience to support the SCREEN-OUT Element of: Your ability to perform the duties of aHeavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic without more than normal supervision. Examples of such experience include: (1) Applying knowledge of the mechanical makeup, operation, and working relationships of heavy-duty systems, assemblies, and parts, including major systems, such as: diesel, multi-fuel, and gasoline engines, supercharges/turbo charged engines to overhaul and rebuild heavy mobile systems and vehicles; (2) Applying knowledge of automatic and manual transmissions and gear reduction systems, including those with torque converters, planetary gears, and more than one gear range to overhaul and rebuild heavy mobile systems and vehicles; (3) Determining how electrical, transistorized, and/or other non-mechanical systems tie in with and affect the operation of mechanical systems; (4) Utilizing electric and gas welders; cutting torches, presses, metal lathes and grinders to make welding repairs; (5) Fabricating simple parts or structural reinforcement; and (6) Utilizing tools of trade including power equipment and electronic test equipment gauges, micrometer, etc.
If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN-OUT Element above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your resume, clearly describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this job. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. Part-time hours are prorated.
Additional SCREEN-OUT Element: This position performs repair, service, and maintenance of heavy equipment and a non-restricted Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement is required. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position.
The applicable qualification standard for this position can be found in the Job Qualifications System for Trades and Labor Occupations (Handbook X-118C) at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).
Volunteer Experience: 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.
Physical Demands: The work of the position requires active physical effort, to include walking, standing, lifting objects up to 50 pounds, stooping, and working in cramped positions. Occasionally, strenuous physical effort is exerted in climbing and carrying and using hand tools in the repair of powered equipment. Manual dexterity is necessary when disassembling, repairing, and reassembling units. Visual and auditory senses are relied upon to coordinate the diagnosis of mechanical failures and
the resulting equipment repairs.
Working Conditions: The incumbent works in areas that are frequently dusty, dirty, and/or greasy, and is exposed to oils, fuels, solvents, noxious gases, and fumes that could result in burns, infections, and cuts. Works is performed both indoors and outdoors. The incumbent must be capable of working satisfactorily in adverse conditions of cold, heat, rain, snow, humidity, and high insect density.
A review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the Occupational Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Occupational Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation, you will be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration for this position.
You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of any additional assessments that may be required for this position.
Education
There is no education requirement or substitution for experience for this position.
Additional information
- You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
- You may be required to travel overnight away from home occasionally. You must be eligible to obtain a government charge card for travel purposes
Tax Law Impact for PCS: Moving expenses reimbursement is a taxable benefit. However, the Federal Travel Regulation 18-05 issued by General Services Administration has authorized agencies to use the Withholding Tax Allowance and Relocation Income Tax Allowance to pay for "substantially all" of the increased tax liability resulting from the "2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" for certain eligible individuals.
Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. If eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocation incentive. The decision to offer an incentive will be made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For information visit: Recruitment Incentive or Relocation Incentive or Student Loan Repayment.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) or Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP or CTAP eligible see http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ctap_guideline.pdf. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 90 or above on the rating criteria for this position.
If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, please contact San Antonio Services Branch at SASBMailbox@opm.gov or 816-541-8101.
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How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You Will Be Evaluated On The Following Competencies
- Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal Supervision
- Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (Includes Blueprint Reading)
- Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
- Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation, and Repair, etc.
- Technical Practices (Theoretical, Precise, Artistic)
- Troubleshooting
- Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position
- Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job
- Qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
Candidates who apply under Non-Competitive Merit Promotion procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are minimally qualified based on the content of their resume and their responses to the questionnaire. Qualified candidates will be referred if all required supporting documentation has been provided.
Performance Appraisals for Competitive and Non-Competitive Merit Promotion Applicants: In the evaluation process, due weight will be given to job related experience, education, training, incentive awards and performance appraisals. Applicants must submit a performance appraisal with a performance rating of at least the equivalent of fully successful to be eligible for promotion or placement. Applicants may provide a copy of a performance appraisal of record dated within the last 18 months. If the applicant is unable to provide a performance appraisal of record dated within the last 18 months, the applicant may provide a written explanation as to why.
Recruitment incentive awards: Applicants that have received recruitment incentive awards during the last two years, must list them on their resume.
