About This Role
PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Automotive Work - Work in tiring, awkward and uncomfortable positions. Stand for long periods of time. Bend, stoop, crawl under vehicles and make repairs in tight spaces. Frequently lift, handle, and carry parts and equipment weighing up to 40 pounds. Occasionally move moderately heavy items with assistance or with mechanical devices, including objects weighing up to or over 50 pounds. Performed inside on concrete surfaces where there is exposure to drafts, noise and fumes from vehicles. Occasionally perform work outside under adverse weather conditions. Continually exposed to dirt, dust, and grease, and to the potential for burns, chemical irritations, shocks, bruises, cuts and strains. Follow prescribed safety practices and use safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses and respirators. Vehicle Operation - Effort is required to control vehicles that carry heavy loads or large numbers of people. Employee meets planes, drives buses/ vans, etc. up to 150 miles from the VAMC to pick up new admissions, VACO personnel, supplies, etc. Incumbent is responsible to assist others (Nursing Aids) for safe loading and unloading of patients and/or residents, and wheelchair patients. Lifting may be required in assisting. Operates vehicles in all types of weather and traffic conditions. Drives in heavy traffic and at highway speeds over complicated road and interchange systems and has the potential to be exposed to the danger of serious accidents. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Appli
