Engineering Equipment Operator Helper

Engineering Equipment Operor Helper Department of Agriculture Forest Service Summary This position is loced within a Nional Forest. The position is loced on a fire crew as a crew member within the fire management organizion. This position is loced on a Forest Unit to assist the fire dozer operor with initial tack, fire, and fuels management activities. The helper also assists in support of other nural resource projects. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 07/01/2025 to 07/14/2025 Salary $21.19 - $21.19 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 5 Locions Many vacancies in the following locions: Locion Negotiable After Selection Edgefield, SC Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Occasional overnight travel may be required for fire suppression or fire reled assignment. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-TEMPF1-R8-2024-5DH Control number 839753300 This job is open to The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency Applicions accepted from any U.S. citizen. Direct Hire Authority used to fill this position. Veterans Preference and traditional ring and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy. Videos Duties Assists journeyman equipment operor in equipment operion and operes equipment under close supervision. Supports journeyman engineering equipment operors in opering heavy equipment, such as large industrial tractors, loaders, backhoes, graders, dump trucks, and soil compactors. Services and performs operor maintenance on equipment being performed. Receives training and learns the common and typical duties associed with opering heavy engineering equipment. Learns to opere controls and adjust equipment tachments. Performs maintenance and makes minor repairs and adjustments to equipment opered. Reports major mechanical problems to supervisor. Assists engineering equipment operor in maintaining equipment for emergency use in fire suppression. Ensures th work is performed safely and efficiently in accordance with established standards. Receives and follows detailed instructions for new or difficult assignments. Under close supervision, performs service and operor maintenance on equipment being opered. Performs manual tasks th require prior work experience or training and some degree of manual skill and very heavy physical effort, such as installion of culverts or drainage structures. Performs manual tasks th require prior work experience or training and some degree of manual skill and very heavy physical effort, such as installion of wer sources and associed pipelines, and wer capture and storage structures. Performs wildfire suppression support as directed within training and physical capabilities. Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a US Citizen or US Nional. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt. Subject to sisfactory adjudicion of background investigion and/or fingerprint check. Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of your choosing. Must be 18 years of age. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, e-Verify. Incumbent is subject to medical screening and must meet the Federal Wildland Firefighter Medical Qualificion Standards for arduous duty wildland firefighting. Some Fire positions may have Conditions of Employment such as: a valid ste driver's license; a commercial driver's license (CDL); pre-appointment and random drug testing; or a physical or medical examinion. Willing to live/work in remote locions (volile/unpredictable). This is a Test Designed Position. You tested for illegal drugs prior to appointment and randomly thereafter. Appointment and continued employment is conditional on negive results. This is a Test Designed Position. You subject to pre-employment and random drug testing. Appointment is based on a negive result. This announcement constitutes 30 days advance notice. Occasional overnight travel may be required for fire suppression or fire reled assignment. Position may be required to drive vehicles th require a Class A or Class B Commercial Driver's License, based on type or kind of equipment being opered. Must pass the approprie level of the Work Capacity Test for Wildland Firefighters. Qualificions In order to qualify, you must meet the and requirements as defined below by the closing de of the announcement. For more informion on the qualificions for this position, the You must possess the Basic Requirements identified below to be considered eligible for this position. Your applicion or resume must clearly show th you possess the approprie experience requirements. Applicants evalued on their ability to perform the duties of the position rher than length of experience. Eligibility determined by the relevance, scope and quality of all experience and training, regardless of where or how acquired. Applicants ranked and red based on their knowledge of the job elements identified in this announcement. Job Elements: Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision. Operion of Motor Vehicles. Work Practices (includes keeping things ne, clean, and in order). Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specificions, etc. (reled to mobile equipment operion). Ability to Drive Safely (Motor Vehicles). Ability to Opere Safely (Non-Motor Vehicle). Selective Placement Factors Position may be required to drive vehicles th require a Class A or Class B Commercial Driver's License, based on type or kind of equipment being opered. This is a testing designed position which requires a negive test result for illegal drug use prior to appointment and randomly thereafter. Incumbent is subject to medical screening and must meet the Federal Wildland Firefighter Medical Qualificion Standards for modere level duty wildland firefighting. There is no substitution of educion for this position. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. WORK CAPACITY TEST (WCT) for Wildland Firefighters: This position participes in wildland firefighting activities. Based on the type of work performed, TAKING and PASSING the WCT the MODERATE level is a ''condition of employment.'' The Modere fitness (Field) test requires completing a two (2) mile hike within thirty (30) minutes, while carrying a twenty-five (25) pound pack. In accordance with USDA Department Regulion 4430-792-2, this position is a Testing Designed Position (TDP) under the USDA Drug Free Workplace Program and subject to pre-employment drug testing. All applicants selected for this position required to submit to a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Incumbents of this position required to submit to a urinalysis on an ongoing random basis, after appointment as directed. To receive considerion for this position, you must provide upded required documents and meet all qualificion requirements by the closing de of this announcement. Additional informion PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is being used to fill positions for FY2026 Temporary Employment Hiring season. The expected start de for this position between October 19, 2025 to December 28, 2025. By selecting the "Locion Negotiable" option during the applicion process, implies your willingness to be considered for any official duty locion listed on this announcement and/or those duty locions not listed for this Regional announcement. Pay res vary depending on locion. The salary shown is for the Rest of the U.S. See for additional informion on pay res. This position is temporary, has a Not-to-Exceed de and filled for up to 6 months or as a not to exceed (NTE) 1 year, however an extension of the appointment may be possible without further competition. The appointment may also end early due to lack of work or lack of funds. Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other groups within the Region who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in any of the geographic locion(s) listed on the announcement. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. The duty stion for this position one of the duty locions listed in this announcement. Please the for additional informion on pay res in your duty locion Ste. The USDA Forest Service has legislive authority to recruit and fill Permanent (Career/Career-Conditional), Temporary, and Term Appointments under the USDA Demonstrion Project. Under this authority, any U.S. citizen may apply. : To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/ICTAP candides must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP eligible must meet the agency's definition for a quality candide as provided in the How You Will Be Evalued section of this announcement to be If you are retired from the Federal Government and are selected for this vacancy, your retirement annuity may be offset from your pay. This position is not eligible for telework.

Availability of government housing and federal day care facilities will vary by locion. Positions filled from this announcement may be a bargaining or a non-bargaining unit position represented by either NFFE, AFGE or NAGE. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. This is a Direct-Hire Authority position, all applicants who meet the minimum qualificions, to include any selective placement factor(s), if applicable, referred to the selecting official. Before a certifice is issued to the selecting official, the resume is reviewed to ensure th you meet all the qualificion requirements. A ring will not be used; veteran's preference does not apply due to the existence of the Direct Hire authority for this position. Note: If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurely reflect your abilities, or you may be found ineligible. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring. Providing inaccure informion on Federal documents could be grounds for non-selection or disciplinary action up to including removal from the Federal service. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies. The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, illegible fax transmissions, delays in the mail service, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion. : 1) personal informion such as name, address, contact informion; 2) educion; 3) detailed work experience reled to this position as described in the responsibilities section including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment (day/month/year); title, series, grade (if applicable); 4) other qualificions. If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Please view - a guide to the Forest Service applicion process. Read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. (MST), Monday - Friday. If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be returned to Human Resources no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement in order for it to be entered into the system prior to the closing de. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, in USAJOBS click "Apply" and follow the instructions to tach your resume and supporting documents, complete the assessment questionnaire, and submit your applicion. NOTE : Please verify th documents you are uploading from USAJOBS transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Agency contact informion HRM Contact Center Phone Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT Albuquerque, NM 87109 US Next steps Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the , agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint, or any other informion reled to an organizion's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to , subject line: Fair Chance Act. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, illegible fax transmissions, delays in the mail service, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion. : 1) personal informion such as name, address, contact informion; 2) educion; 3) detailed work experience reled to this position as described in the responsibilities section including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment (day/month/year); title, series, grade (if applicable); 4) other qualificions. If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Please view - a guide to the Forest Service applicion process. Read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. (MST), Monday - Friday. If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be returned to Human Resources no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement in order for it to be entered into the system prior to the closing de. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, in USAJOBS click "Apply" and follow the instructions to tach your resume and supporting documents, complete the assessment questionnaire, and submit your applicion. NOTE : Please verify th documents you are uploading from USAJOBS transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Agency contact informion HRM Contact Center Phone Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT Albuquerque, NM 87109 US Next steps Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the , agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint, or any other informion reled to an organizion's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to , subject line: Fair Chance Act. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 07/01/2025 to 07/14/2025 Salary $21.19 - $21.19 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 5 Locions Many vacancies in the following locions: Locion Negotiable After Selection Edgefield, SC Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Occasional overnight travel may be required for fire suppression or fire reled assignment. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-TEMPF1-R8-2024-5DH Control number 839753300 .,

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