Materials Handler

Major duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Logs the receipt and storage of stock.
• Independently loads and unloads shipments from trucks rail cars and other material conveyances using knowledge of warehouse plans.
• Verifies bills of lading and identifies and reports discrepancies in received shipments.
• Operates forklifts manual and mechanized pallet jacks side loaders stacker cranes and automated guided vehicles to move materials.
• Operates automated storage vehicles and uses remote terminals to receive and transmit locator data.
• Handles hazardous or sensitive materials and prepares shipping and inventory documents required for manual or automated inventory systems.
• Ensures the accuracy of quantities identification criteria and labeling; updates inventory records and prepares reports on inventory status.
• Organizes arranges assembles and delivers stock in storage areas and uses optical readers scanners and computer keyboards to load computerized inventory data access inventory information and fill item requisitions.
• Conducts cycle counts on a regular basis using optical scanners to maintain inventory accuracy.
• Stacks moves and arranges items on pallets while considering height weight and special handling requirements; uses pallet measuring gauges and automated devices to ensure load and storage requirements are met and damage is prevented; operates mechanized and electromechanical warehouse vehicles and performs routine operator maintenance.
• Performs duties as assigned.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Pre-employment physical required
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Often required to stand on hard surfaces for extended periods of time and to bend stoop and work in tiring and sometimes uncomfortable positions. Lifts and carries items that weigh up to 8 kilograms (40 pounds). The heavier items are moved with weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers.

Work is done inside or outside in areas that may be hot damp cold drafty or poorly lighted! Regular exposure to the possibility of cuts scrapes bruises abrasions falls and injury from falling stock or mechanized work areas. When working in hazardous materials areas may be subject to exposure from radiation toxins explosive hazards or chemical fumes. Work may require wearing protective clothing such as hardhats steel-toed shoes rubber gloves masks and rubber aprons.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position the job element method is used to match what you the applicant can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Interpret Instructions Specifications (other than blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Technical Practices
• Without more than normal supervision
• Work Practices