CRANE OPERATOR (ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT OPERATOR)

Summary
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The primary purpose of this position is to operate boom cranes at various outdoor locations where maneuverability is restricted and accuracy is critical and to operate equipment, such as graders, tractors, front-end loaders, etc. performing functions as cutting, moving, digging, grading, and rolling earth, sand, stone, and other materials.
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Overview
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• Open & closing dates

11/15/2024 to 11/29/2024

• Salary

$30.17 - $35.14 per hour

• Pay scale & grade

WG 11

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Location
Few vacancies in the following location:

• Robins AFB, GA
• Remote job

No

• Telework eligible

No

• Travel Required

Not required

• Relocation expenses reimbursed

No

• Appointment type

Permanent

• Work schedule

Full-time

• Service

Competitive

• Promotion potential

None

• Job family (Series)
• 5725 Crane Operating
• Supervisory status

No

• Security clearance

Other

• Drug test

Yes

• Financial disclosure

No

• Bargaining unit status

Yes

• Announcement number

AFMC-12607807-644415-9R-ADW

• Control number

819035400
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This job is open to

• Federal employees - Competitive service

Current or former competitive service federal employees.

• Federal employees - Excepted service

Current excepted service federal employees.

• Internal to an agency

Current federal employees of this agency.

• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.

• Veterans
• Military spouses
• Family of overseas employees

Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas.

• Land & base management

Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
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Duties

• Operates boom cranes where maneuverability is restricted and accuracy is critical. Uses and maintains tools and equipment.
• Applies skilled techniques in moving loads near obstructions.
• Operates one or more types of heavy equipment to excavate, backfill, grade, or level earth to rough specifications on such projects as breaking new ground for trails, roads, airfields, or other construction sites.
• Utilizes safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintains a safe and clean work environment.
• Maintains, repairs, and constructs rigid pavements or similar cement and concrete surfaces; maintains, repairs, and constructs flexible roads, pavements, parking areas, airdromes, bike paths, or similar surfaces of asphalt.

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Requirements
Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required.
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program.
• Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends and/or holidays,
• Relocation costs or other incentives may be available and considered by the organization.
• Disclosure of Political Appointments.
• This position may require drug testing and the candidate may be subject to passing a drug test upon selection. This is a drug testing designated position.
• Selectee is expected to be granted with and/or maintain the appropriate security clearance required for the position. The employee must obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance.
• Selectee may be required to serve a probationary or trial period.
• The employee is required to work shifts.
• The employee may be required to work overtime on an emergency basis.
• The employee may be recalled to duty.
• This position requires the employee to drive a motor vehicle. An appropriate, valid driver's license is required for the position.
• The actual work performed in this position has been reviewed and determined that it does NOT meet any of the exemption criteria defined in 5 CFR 551. This position has been designated as nonexempt.
• A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is required for this position.

Qualifications
A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is required for this position.
In order to qualify, you must meet the quality level of experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook X-118C.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C for the WG-5700 Transportation/Mobile Equipment Operation Family. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most blue-collar positions, you must meet any screen-out element listed and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying. Qualification requirements emphasis is on the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
The screen out element for this position is Ability to do the Work of the Position Without More than normal Supervision.
JOB ELEMENTS: Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

• Operation of Motor Vehicles
• Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order)
• Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (related to mobile equipment operation)
• Ability to Drive Safely (Motor Vehicles)
• Ability To Operate Safely (Non-Motor Vehicle)
• Reliability and Dependability as a Crane Operator (Engineering Equipment Operator)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of operation, capabilities, and capacities of boom cranes. Knowledge of the crane's response to control changes. Knowledge of methods and techniques of subsurface preparation and constructing and repairing asphalt and cement surfaces.
• Knowledge of safety regulations, practices, and procedures. Knowledge of regulations, procedures, and polices related to records maintenance and documentation.
• Skill in the use of clutches, levers, brakes, and accelerator to raise and lower the boom, to position the revolving frame, and to raise and lower the hoist line with the load and to move the mobile base. Skill in applying and leveling gravel, crushed stone, and other aggregates to the proper thickness for the subsurface and in applying sealer. Skill in shaping curbs and drainage ditches and in curing asphalt with sealer.
• Ability to react quickly to hand and other signals from ground level personnel. Ability to interpret instructions, specifications, etc. (related to mobile equipment operation). Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment. Ability to use and maintain power tools, hand tools, and related equipment. Ability to read and interpret instructions, blueprints, drawings, and sketches.
• Knowledge of engineering equipment, such as graders, tractors with bulldozer or angle dozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scraper attachments.
• Knowledge of the different sets of controls and operation of equipment and attachments. Skill in manipulating the controls to adjust spreaders, sprayers, posthole diggers, backhoes, moveable dozer blades, and front-end loading devices.

Physical Effort: Continual control changes to maneuver crane and load around obstructions requires strenuous physical effort. Heavy physical effort is used by the operator in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls, levers, clutches, and brakes to operate the equipment and attachments. Work becomes increasingly strenuous because of the type of equipment handled and the requirement for more frequent adjustments under adverse operating conditions. Operator exerts heavy effort in pushing, pulling, and depressing the various levers, clutches, and brakes. Is subject to strain caused by vibrations of the crane, and from the jerking and jolting motions while lifting and moving loads and operating over rough surfaces. Also subject to body strain from bending and twisting to observe movements and signals. Occasionally moves objects weighing up to 50 pounds, e.g., lifting hooks and cables, changing rigging, setting out riggers, etc.
Working Conditions: Typically works outside in all kinds of weather frequently exposed to dust and dirt. Works near moving parts of equipment and machinery. Regularly exposed to the possibility of cuts, scrapes, and bruises, falls, falling material, or injury from equipment. May be exposed to grease, fumes, solvents, high noise, vibrations, and exposure to critical injuries from the possibility of the equipment overturning. May be required to wear protective clothing, such as hats, steel-toed shoes, gloves, masks, and apr