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Gardener (Motor Vehicle Operator)
National Park Service · Posted today
About the Role
This Gardner Motor Vehicle Operator is located in Capitol Reef National Park. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work most of the year and be in a non-pay status during early November. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration. Learn more about this agency
What You'll Do
- →Performs a wide variety and range of gardening/tree work using independent judgment within the framework of good gardening practices.
- →Works from project plans, master landscape, historic landscape, and long-range plans, making independent judgments within the framework of good gardening practices.
- →Operates and maintains irrigation system for orchards.
- →Prunes trees to reduce risk of failure, maintain historic patters, promote tree health and fruit productivity.
- →Recommends and applies proper compounds for control measures (i.e., use of pesticide or herbicide and biological applications).
- →Physical Effort: The work requires frequent walking, standing, pushing of carts and wheelbarrows, bending, and stooping.
- →On occasion you may climb ladders to prune or trim vegetation and lifts heavy objects.
- →Working Conditions: The work is done outside or in a greenhouse.
- →You will be subject to discomfort from long periods in the sun, and sometimes in chilly or rainy weather.
- →On a regular basis the conditions will involve working in air contaminated with chemical dust and sprays being applied to trees and shrubs.
- →You will be required to wear protective clothing during pesticide/herbicide application; as well as normal safety items such as gloves, boots, glasses, etc.
- →Career Seasonal: This is a Career-Seasonal position and subject to release and recall procedures.
- →A permanent career-seasonal position includes all the benefits of permanent employment but does not provide employment on a full year-round basis.
- →As such, selectee will work a minimum of 24 pay periods to a maximum of 25 pay periods and be in a non-pay/non-duty status for at least 2 weeks per year based on project requirements or weather conditions.
Requirements
- ✓Conditions of employment U.S.
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
- ✓Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- ✓You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties.
- ✓You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists.
- ✓Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
- ✓Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license.
- ✓You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
- ✓A uniform allowance will be provided.
- ✓You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
- ✓There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions.
Personality Fit
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