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Engineering Equipment Operator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 54 days ago
About the Role
You will serve as the Engineering Equipment Operator with the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Tacoma, Washington.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but not limited to: Have a valid and current CDL Class A or Class B license.
- →Operate equipment such as tractors with bulldozer or angle dozer blades, front end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, tracked construction equipment, and trucks more than 32,000 pounds.
- →Operate one or more types of heavy equipment to push, pull, pile, or load materials (such as: sand, gravel, earth, coal, or refuse).
- →Use equipment which is fitted with a front-end loader or backhoe to maneuver or transfer material into a dump truck.
- →Operate hydraulic wheelchair lifts when operating vehicles that are equipped to transport patients using wheelchairs.
- →Operate street sweepers.
- →Operate retractable boom lifts, scissor lifts for cleaning gutters and pruning treetops.
- →Transport patients, staff, and visitors to and from the Medical Center over public highways and within the grounds of the facility.
- →Load passenger baggage and equipment in the vehicle baggage department, ensuring that it is properly distributed and balanced to prevent shifting and breakage while in transit.
- →Operate power tools and grounds equipment such as weed eaters, edgers, and blowers.
- →Operate vehicles on interstate highways, winding roads, and steep grades and able to manipulate the dual braking system.
- →Maneuver vehicles through congested, narrow streets, with sharp turns.
- →Properly and safely load materials for hauling.
- →Perform operator maintenance on all operated vehicles (e.g., monitoring fluid levels, replacing air filters and interior lights, checking tire pressure and hose connections, and washing the vehicle).
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitute for this position.
Personality Fit
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