Duties
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This position is located in the Maintenance Division. Selectees may be moved between duty stations within park boundaries.
The typical season for these positions is May through September, but varies during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, and funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: May, 2025.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
Operates a variety of motor vehicles, including those having a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 26,000 pounds with airbrake systems and multi-geared standard/auxiliary transmissions, automatic transmissions and PTOs, and towing trailers with a GVWR of greater than 10,000 pounds.
Operates and maintains a variety of wheeled and crawler track engineering equipment including road graders, bulldozers, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, dump trucks, and trailers (some with attachments) on steep and varied mountainous terrain to push, pull, pile, excavate, backfill, grade, level, cut, move, dig, grade, and roll earth, sand, stone, refuse, and other materials, to maintain, replace, remove, or install ditches, road shoulders, and road beds. Work is completed to exact specifications on flat or rolling terrain, moderate to mountainous and steep slopes, graded curves and shoulders, rocky or soft ground, elevated sharp curves and switch backs adjacent to drop-offs, and other surfaces with similar rough or uneven terrain/features.
Up to 16-foot bladed motor graders are used with attachments such as, but not limited to, scarifier, nose plow, wobble wheel compactors, snow wing, side boom mower, sloper attachment, and rear mounted rippers to excavate, compact, grade, cut slopes, ditch, plow snow, rip ice, maintain road shoulders and backslopes, spread road base to grade stake specifications, and fine grade for smooth travel surface.
Operates dozers up to and including the equivalent of Caterpillar D-9's with straight, angle or multiple way blades and rippers. May use dozers to spread soil and gravel, excavate, repair erosion, construct fire breaks, use ripper attachments to cut rocks and hard surfaces, construct and repair trails, temporary and permanent roads, excavate and stockpile pit and fill material, construct drainage channels and water bars, remove snow and ice, demolish structures, and restore landscaping and property.
Uses loaders up to six cubic yard capacity to remove snow or ice, landscape with soil and gravel to approximate grade, remove rock/mud slides, load dump trucks, set, sling, lift, and place various sizes of pipes, culverts, hydrants, manholes, rocks, logs, and other large objects.
May operate straight dump trucks up to 14 cubic yards or truck tractors with belly or side dump trailers, hauling equipment on trailers with tractor or straight trucks, hauling debris, stone, gravel, and soil, operating pickup trucks for transportation of personnel and equipment to job sites, operating distributer truck/tanker for dust suppressant application, trash compactor trucks, vacuum pumpers trucks used to pump vault toilets and septic tanks, skid steer loaders with attachments, truck/trailer combinations, snow groomers, mobile brooms, tree chippers, and farm-type or warehouse type tractors. Performs daily preventative maintenance to assigned equipment and performs limited field repairs, generally without direct supervision.
Government housing may be available.
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How to Apply
To apply for this position: You must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive consideration, the complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 03/12/2025. You must provide documentation to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documentation listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the appropriate information. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities that you selected and provided the appropriate supporting documentation.
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A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR 575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive.
A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another.