Equipment Specialist- Expeditionary Civilian (EC)

DLA Careers; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Careers seeks an Equipment Specialist to support expeditionary operations. The role involves determining mission-essential equipment needs, ensuring availability, and monitoring contractor work as COR. You will manage equipment data, perform inventories, and aid safety investigations.

Candidates should have specialized federal experience and the ability to obtain required licenses. This position may require deployment and adherence to EC/EE policies, with comprehensive federal benefits upon

Qualifications

• Specialized experience required for GS-11 that matches the duties.
• Education may substitute as allowed; transcripts may be requested.
• Experience planning reviews of equipment use, maintenance, and safety records.

Responsibilities

• Determine mission-essential equipment requirements and ensure availability.
• Observe data on repairs and operations; recommend improvements.
• Monitor contractor work as COR to ensure contract compliance.
• Use DPAS to dispatch equipment, schedule maintenance, and record faults.
• Create work orders and track equipment usage at field sites.
• Conduct physical inventories and manage transfers of surplus property.
• Assist Safety Officer in ensuring equipment safety and incident investigations.
• Instruct and certify operators for MHE and other equipment per regulations.

Skills

Equipment operation

Safety compliance

Maintenance planning

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Enterprise Logistics Management System (DPAS)

Job description

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

This is an Expeditionary Civilian (EC) position, and the incumbent will be designated as Emergency Essential (EE). The incumbent is subject to repeated deployments.

PLEASE READ "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION".

Duties

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• Optimizes site production capabilities by determining mission essential operating equipment requirements and ensuring equipment availability.
• Observes and analyzes data on vehicle and equipment repairs, operations, and disposal, and recommends improvements.
• Serves as the Contracting Officer Representative (COR), monitoring and inspecting maintenance work completed by contractors and service providers to ensure compliance with contract specifications.
• Uses Enterprise Logistics Management System (formerly DPAS) application for dispatching equipment, scheduling maintenance services, recording faults;
• Creating work orders, tracking equipment usage and data, and other administrative functions at field sites.
• Conducts physical inventory of all accountable property on a recurring basis, ensures accurate record-keeping, and coordinates transfer or turn-in of surplus and unserviceable property.
• Assists Site Safety Officer with ensuring all equipment is safe to operate, ensuring operators are operating equipment correctly, and participating in equipment safety incident and mishap investigations.
• Serves as an Instructor and Certifying Official (ICO) for operators using Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and other vehicles and equipment requiring training and licensing through IAW DLA, OSHA, and equipment manufacturers.

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule (https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Join-Our-Team/Benefits/#Work)
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• Expeditionary Civilian (EC): Emergency Essential
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain licenses and/or certifications required by the installation, federal, state, and local laws.

Qualifications

To qualify for an Equipment Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
• Planning and conducting reviews of vehicle and equipment usage, maintenance, operation, property accountability, and safety records.
• Managing the maintenance and repair of equipment.
• Applying technical specifications and instructing personnel on the correct and safe operation of equipment.
• Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx. If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation. To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related.
• Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade level GS-11 and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-11.

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 incumbent will be required to do considerable walking, standing and moderate bending. On occasion will be required to perform lifting up to 35 pounds. Operation of equipment is sometimes necessary. Some work is done in the warehouse/industrial areas as well as the Disposition Services yards or an equipment site where it is drafty and noisy, and fumes from equipment are present. Dirt, dust and grease are frequently present.

Work Environment

Work may be performed in an office, warehouse or outside scrap yard. Work involves regular and recurring exposure to adverse weather conditions as well as all hazards associated with the operation of MHE. This may require the use of limited safety equipment such as hard hats, safety shoes and other similar safety apparel.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment. You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal

Education

Are you using your education to qualify? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Additional Information

PLEASE READ This is an Expeditionary Civilian (EC) position, and the incumbent will be designated as Emergency Essential (EE). In the event of a crisis situation, the incumbent may be required to deploy via temporary reassignment or be required to stay in place to support contingency operations. The incumbent may be required to take part in readiness exercises. This position cannot be vacated during a national emergency or mobilization without seriously impairing the capability of the organization to function effectively; therefore, the position requires the incumbent to be screened from military recall.

Military Reservists selected for an EC position must arrange for removal from the reserve component prior to appointment to an EC position. This requirement must be met prior to placement in an EC position. Positions identified as EE are subject to deployment to combat support situations. Deployment will be via Temporary Duty (TDY) orders. Deployment may entitle the employee to additional monetary compensation dependent upon the deployment location. Additional allocations are based on the Department of State's determination of a combat zone.

The incumbent is subject to repeated deployments. Duration of deployment generally does not exceed six months with a possible dwell time of 12-18 months. The incumbent may be required to deploy as soon as 90 days from their return. The incumbent must sign the Statement of Understanding and Agreement for Expeditionary Civilian (EC) positions indicating at all times to meet and maintain readiness requirements and be fully equipped, trained and qualified to deploy. When not in a deployment status the work performed at your home station is to compliment the operations at the DLA Disposition Services location.

As required by 5 C.F.R.

• 302.106, DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R. 1194).

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants:

This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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