MWR Laborer

Navy Region Southwest Fleet and Family Readiness (FFR); Lemoore (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Naval installation NASL seeks a versatile worker in the Community Recreation Division, MWR, NASL. The role covers grounds maintenance, warehouses, facilities, and rental operations, involving heavy labor, hand and power tools, and operation of vehicles and large equipment.

Responsibilities include loading/unloading materials, operating mowers and power equipment, maintaining tools and rental gear, and ensuring safety and cleanliness across recreation spaces.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of safe and efficient operating techniques for large equipment and power tools.
• Ability to operate and control riding mowers on slopes and around obstacles.
• Ability to follow instructions and read simple drawings for tasks.
• Experience with hand tools such as shovels, rakes, hammers, bars, saws.
• Ability to complete multiple tasks by following detailed processes.

Responsibilities

• Loads and unloads materials manually or with lift devices.
• Operates power equipment (mowers, blowers, weed eaters, power washers).
• Maintains and cleans facilities and grounds with hand tools.
• Moves and organizes equipment, supplies, and materials.
• Cleans and maintains rental equipment and assists with inflatable setups.

Skills

Equipment operation

Power tools use

Vehicle operation

Safety compliance

Reading drawings

Manual dexterity

Tools

Pallet jack

Lift gate

Banding equipment

Power washers

Shovels & rakes

Job description

Summary

This position is assigned to the Community Recreation Division; MWR Department; NASL. The purpose of this position is to perform duties commonly found in a variety of work situations and incidental to many different occupations in MWR, such as grounds maintenance, warehouses, facilities, and rental operations. This involves heavy labor, the use of hand and power tools, operating motor vehicles, towed, and large equipment.

Summary

This position is assigned to the Community Recreation Division; MWR Department; NASL. The purpose of this position is to perform duties commonly found in a variety of work situations and incidental to many different occupations in MWR, such as grounds maintenance, warehouses, facilities, and rental operations. This involves heavy labor, the use of hand and power tools, operating motor vehicles, towed, and large equipment.

Duties

• Loads and unloads materials from ground, pallets, skids, platforms, trucks, lifting devices, and transport vehicles, manually or mechanically with lift gate, wheelbarrow, pallet jack or dolly.
• Operates a variety of power equipment to include but not limited to the following: mowers, clippers, posthole diggers, blowers, weed eaters, power washers, and banding equipment.
• Uses hand tools such as shovels, rakes, hammers, bars, saws, axes, loppers, wrenches, brushes, and brooms to maintain and clean facilities and grounds.
• Moves and organizes equipment, supplies, furniture, and materials by hand or by mechanical means.
• Uses shovels, rakes, and rock bars to excavate, backfill or spread sand, dirt or fill materials to improve recreation spaces such as playgrounds, park spaces, volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, etc.
• Ensures grounds and facilities are maintained and clean (e.g., cleans park tables, collects/empties trash cans, barbecues, pavilions, docks, and rental equipment to ensure they are in serviceable condition).
• Clears small trees, limbs, tree debris, and bushes using handsaw, clippers or loppers.
• Shovels, sweeps or rakes snow, sand or dirt from sidewalks, playgrounds, volleyball courts, beach and recreational parking lots.
• Cleans and waxes vehicles.
• Maintains an inventory of hand and power tools, large equipment and inflatable bounce equipment and ensures they are in good working order.
• Makes all adjustments to equipment to ensure proper settings, connections, and mechanical soundness.
• Makes minor repairs, paints, and may perform carpentry work.
• Assists the mechanic with maintaining and cleaning rental equipment.
• Delivers, sets up, inspects and tears down inflatable bounce equipment.
• Assists in preparing excess property for disposal.
• Determines and selects the most appropriate type of equipment to accomplish each phase of the work in the most productive and cost-effective manner.
• Assists in issuing and receiving rental equipment from customers, assists customers in hooking up trailers, loading and unloading of equipment into personal vehicles.
• Observes required safety, sanitation, environmental, hazardous waste disposal, and housekeeping rules and regulations.

Requirements

• Must successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of employment.
• Must meet Federal Employment suitability requirements and successful completion of background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid driver's license.
• Must have or be able to obtain within the first 60 days of employment the following certifications: First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Forklift Operator, Safe Inflatable Operators Training Organization (SIOTO)

Qualifications

Resumes must include information which demonstrates experience and knowledge, skills, and ability (KSAs) as they relate to this position. Applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing their experience level and KSAs.

A qualified candidate possess the following:

• Knowledge of safe and efficient operating techniques of various large equipment and power tools: (Operates a variety of power equipment to include, but not limited to: posthole diggers, blowers, weed eaters, power washers, mowers, box trucks with lift gate, etc.)
• Ability to operate and control riding mowers on slopes which requires constant attention to working space and environment.
• Ability to safely operate equipment around buildings, walls, trees, fence lines, banks and hillsides, trenches, curbs, rocks and other visible obstacles.
• Ability to operate various controls and levers to maneuver equipment and lift/lower, adjust, engage/disengage components or attached devices.
• Knowledge and skill using hand tools and other equipment such as: shovels, rakes, hammers, bars, saws, axes, loppers, wrenches, brushes, brooms, ladders, banding equipment, and pallet jacks.
• Ability to complete assignments involving several tasks by following detailed processes which require remembering directions, sequences, following simple drawings, etc.
• Ability to follow general instructions or read simple drawings to perform tasks requiring significant manual skill.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement.

Additional information

Executive Order 12564 requires a Federal workplace free of illegal drugs. According to the Executive Order, all Federal employees are required to remain drug free throughout their employment. Commander, Navy Installations Command is a Drug-Free Federal Workplace. The use of illegal drugs will not be tolerated, and use of or intoxication by illegal drugs will result in penalties up to and including removal from Federal Service.

Non-U.S. citizens with fewer than three years of recent residential history in the U.S. may be determined ineligible for employment.

Some positions have special requirements. Selectee may be required to complete a one (1) year probationary period. Participation in Direct Deposit/Electronic Fund Transfer within the first 30 days of employment is required.

In accordance with the Real ID Act of 2005, if a candidate or new hire requires access to a military installation and does not have a REAL ID, identity will need to be established. Identity is established by presenting either one (1) Acceptable Credential or by presenting an acceptable combination of Source Identify Documents. Acceptable Credentials are listed in List A and Acceptable Source Identity Documents are listed in Lists B and C in the link below (page 3). If using an Acceptable Credential, only one (1) from List A is required and if using Acceptable Source Identity Documents, one (1) from List B and one (1) from List C is required. https://www.oni.navy.mil/Portals/12/Vistors/Base%20Access%20Form.pdf?ver=2017-08-28-065204-693

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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