Store Worker (Fork Lift Operator)

United-States-Department-of-Defense; Alaska; On-site; USD 38,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The United States Department of Defense is seeking a Store Worker (Fork Lift Operator) to manage the receipt, handling, marking, and displaying of resale items, while maintaining stock levels. The role requires regular forklift operation and adherence to safety protocols.

Applicants should be prepared to work in a demanding environment with physical requirements and the ability to perform job elements as defined by the screening criteria.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of stock turnover and shelf space allocation.
• Knowledge of brand names and sizes of grocery items to ensure proper care and handling.
• Ability to locate items to assist customers and maintain safety.
• Experience in operating a forklift.

Responsibilities

• Receive, handle, and stock resale items.
• Mark, prepare, display, and maintain stock levels.
• Operate a forklift to move goods and load/unload items.

Skills

Forklift operation

Stock turnover

Shelf space

Customer knowledge

Item location

Job description

The primary purpose of the position is to perform the duties of a Store Worker (Fork Lift Operator). Incumbent works in one or more departments within the store and performs a variety of duties involved in receiving, handling, marking, preparing, displaying, and maintaining the stock levels of resale items. The work involves regular and recurring operation of an electric, diesel, or gasoline powered fork lift.

Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

You must meet qualifications and stated requirements by the announcement closing date. Per the OPM Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations, how you gained the skill and/or knowledge or the length of time you have spent in this line of work is not as important as what you can do and that you have the required ability or potential to successfully perform the duties of this position. Your resume should show your specific knowledge, skill, and abilities for this position in relation to each of the elements being measured.

Examples of related/qualifying experience

• Knowledge of stock turnover, shelf space allocation, and customer preferences
• Knowledge of brand names and sizes of grocery items or the kinds and varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables to ensure the proper care and handling of certain items
• Knowledge of location of items to assist customers, work practices to prepare, arrange, or stack items together while maintaining safety for patrons and other employees
• Preparing, arranging, or stacking items together for safety and neatness; rotating old stock
• Operating a forklift

You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

Physical requirements: (1) Work requires continuous walking, standing, bending, or stooping, and use of arms to fill shelves and counters. (2) Frequently lifts or moves heavy boxes or crates weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally over 50 pounds. 3) While operating a forklift, uses moderate physical effort in operating hand and foot controls while driving, turning, starting, and stopping the forklift, and raising, lowering and tilting loads being moved. You will attest to your ability to perform these physical requirements in the Questionnaire.

As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate what you can do against what the work requires (job element method). This job has one critical element, called the screen-out element (SOE). The SOE addresses the critical knowledge, skill, and abilities essential to satisfactory job performance. Applicants who clearly fail to meet the lowest acceptable requirement in the SOE are rated ineligible and receive no further consideration. The job elements for this job are:

• Overtime: Occasional
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Nonexempt
• Bargaining Unit Status: Not Covered
• Obligated Position: No
• Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met.
• Work environment: Exposure to extreme temperatures or conditions. Danger of minor injuries such as cuts, scrapes, and bruises, or heat sealer burns. While operating a forklift, may receive cuts, bruises and broken bones from shifting loads, toppling stacks, overturning forklifts, falling objects or accidents with other moving equipment.
• Telework eligible: No
• Remote work eligible: No