Clarification from the agency

Additional positions may be filled from this announcement.

• Cuts, trims, and bones beef, pork (primals and subprimals), lamb, and veal into retail cuts in accordance with established cut and trim practices and polities.
• Cuts special orders such as varying types and sizes of steaks and roasts including complex special orders such as crown roasts.
• Utilizes knives, saws, meat grinders, meat saws (eg., power band saws), slicers, tenderizers, and meathooks in the performance of duties.
• Checks primals for correct angle of cuts, adjusts as needed, and advises supervisor of primals or subprimals requiring adjustment from packer.
• Assists supervisor in conducting meatcutting tests, in computing basic markup percentages, and in checking grades and classes of meat to verify deliveries against requisitions.
• Conducts fat tests. As necessary, operates meat grinding equipment to prepare different types of ground beef and/or sausage.
• Selects, sharpens, maintains, and cleans hand tools common to the trade. Operates, maintains, and cleans power equipment including saws, grinders, slicers, and tenderizers.
• Responds to patron inquiries in a tactful and courteous manner providing information on proper cooking procedures, storage life of product, temperatures and thawing
  requirements.
• Cleans work area including walls and floors ensuring all sanitation requirements for meat preparation areas are met. As required, assists in receiving incoming shipments including unloading and breaking down shipments, storing shipments in chill lockers, and storing
  vendor items such as ham or poultry in chill or freezer lockers. May enter receipt data from receiving documents into a computer for each category of product received.

Read the entire job announcement. Focus on the following sections to understand whether or not you qualify for the position. This critical information is found under:

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the Qualifications section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire. We do not assume you have the necessary experience to successfully perform in this job regardless of your employment history or academic career.

Conditions of employment

• Be a U.S. citizen or national. Applicants with a Permanent Resident Card are authorized to live and work in the U.S. but are not eligible for employment in positions requiring U.S. citizenship. If selected, proof of citizenship is required.
• Meet minimum age requirement. See the Additional Information section.
• Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
• Appointment is subject to successful verification of identity and employment eligibility through E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
• Appointment is subject to a favorable suitability or fitness outcome, as determined by a completed background investigation. New federal employees will be fingerprinted.
• Be able to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility based on the appropriate background investigation.
• May be subject to a probationary/trial period.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• Meet the physical requirements identified in the Qualifications section.

Qualifications

You must meet qualifications and requirements by the 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 qualifying experience:

• Knowledge of the full range of established meatcutting techniques to reduce primal or subprimal cuts of beef, pork, veal and lamb into retail cuts with a minimum of waste.
• Knowledge of muscle, cell, seam, and bone structure in order to cut a palatable, quality product and to determine if meat products conform to contract standards and specifications.
• Skill in using all tools common to the trade to include knives, bonedusters, electric saws, meat tenderizers, slicers, and grinders. Ability to maintain and/or adjust these tools and pieces of equipment.
• Knowledge of Uniform Retail Meat Identify Standard to ensure merchandizing standards are met.
• Ability to recognize lower yield primals or subprilmals and adjust types of cuts to higher priced cuts to prevent loss.
• Knowledge of storage life, temperature requirements, and thawing times of meat and meat products.
• Knowledge of sanitation standards and safety regulations sufficient to prevent contamination and reduce spoilage. Ability to recognize spoiled or questionable meat, fish, or poultry.

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) Walks and stands continuously while working. Constant grasping of chill and frozen meat products. (2) Frequently lifts, pushes, and pulls pieces and bulk boxes of meat weighing 50 to 100 pounds. Hand trucks and dollies are available and used to move heavy items. 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:

• Work Practices
• Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc.
• Knowledge of Materials
• Technical Practices
• Dexterity and Safety

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Nonexempt
Bargaining Unit Status: Covered
Obligated Position: No
Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met.
Work environment: Works in an area where the temperature does not exceed 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Majority of work is performed in areas which are well lighted and ventilated. Occasionally exposed to temperatures as low as minus IO degrees Fahrenheit when transferring items to and from freezer rooms. Cold weather clothing, protective equipment, and special clothes (metal mesh apron, gloves, safety shoes, etc.)
are provided. Subject to cuts and injuries from knives and power equipment and danger of falling on wet, slippery floors. Subject to injury from lifting heavy objects. May occasionally work outdoors in receiving meat products.
Telework eligible: No
Remote work eligible: No

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

HR reviews your documents to determine if you are qualified and meet requirements. Your questionnaire score is a preliminary measure of how well your background matches the required competencies.
Under category rating procedures you are placed into one of three categories based on the evaluation results:

Best Qualified -Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that substantially exceeds the position's minimum qualifications, including all selective placement factors and appropriate quality ranking factors.
Highly Qualified - Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that exceeds the position's minimum qualifications.
Qualified - Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications and are proficient in some but not all of the position's requirements.

Candidates in the Best Qualified category are referred to hiring managers first. Within the best qualified category, candidates are referred in the following order: adjudicated veterans' preference candidates with 10-point preference, adjudicated veterans' preference candidates with other than 10-point preference, military spouse preference candidates, and candidates with no preference.

• IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you will be removed from consideration for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documentation should provide the minimum qualifications and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted will be reviewed for qualifications and referred for selection consideration, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.
• Additional guidance on writing a federal resume can be found at: USAJOBS Help Center - How do I write a resume for a federal job? The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.
• Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the Qualifications section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire. We do not assume you have the necessary experience to successfully perform in this job regardless of your employment history or academic career.
• At a minimum, your resume MUST contain your name, address, and contact information, and the following for each listed job experience: Job title; Pay Plan, Series and grade, if it is a federal civilian position; Employer's name and address; Employment beginning and ending dates (Month/Year); and Description of duties performed. Part-Time employment MUST include work hours for each job entry.

Questionnaire. Preview at https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12839885 .

• Appointment Eligibility Criteria. You choose how you wish to be considered for this position by selecting one or more of the eligibilities listed in the Assessment Questionnaire and providing the supporting documents for the selected eligibility/eligibilities. Documents required to prove you can be considered for the selected eligibility/eligibilities are listed within the eligibility description.
• HR does not select or change your eligibility/eligibilities for you, regardless of the supporting documents you submit. You are considered ONLY for the eligibility or eligibilities you select and for which you provide all required supporting documents. If you have questions about which eligibility/eligibilities apply to you, contact the HR POC listed on this announcement.

SF 50 Notification of Personnel Action.

• To obtain copies of your SF 50s, all current Department of Defense (DoD) employees can access MyBiz, employees receiving HR servicing from DLA can access eOPF and former civilian employees can request a copy from the National Archives.

All DeCA employees, regardless of location or human resources provider, submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 showing your current position title, pay plan-series-grade, tenure, and position occupied.

PLEASE REVIEW THE BELOW LINK FOR OTHER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS needed for proof of eligibility:
https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DODCustomersRequiredSupportingDocumentation.pdf?

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