Summary Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. About the Position: This position is located at the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC). Responsibilities Ensures needed plans, blueprints, material, and tools are available, and that needed stock is obtained from supply locations. Check work is progress and when finished, checks for compliance with supervisors' instructions on work sequence procedures, methods, and deadlines. Perform a full range of warehousing functions including receiving, storing, picking, preserving, disposing, shipping and re-warehousing materials, commodities, or equipment in accordance with established procedures and operating requirements. Pack, unpack, sort, stack, dunnage, warehouse bins, and move items; make in-storage surveillance for obvious need for preservation, maintenance, repacking, vermin control, etc., reporting findings to supervisor for action. Sort a variety of ordnance material including major items, secondary items, repair parts and supplies related to automotive, and combat vehicles, fire control, tool set components and local use supplies. Receive stock from assembly area or accomplishes movement of partial and small complete orders from one or several warehouses and consolidates from shipment; temporarily warehouses stock. Receive and control material for production orders. Perform location surveys and physical inventories on bin or bulk items in closed or open storage areas. Set up and operate a variety of packaging machines. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 1 year by a current permanent Army employee. Time-limited promotions may be extended up to a maximum of five years. Time-limited reassignments and changes to lower grade may exceed five years, however return rights may be impacted. Position may be made permanent without further competition. Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of an Materials Handler Leader without more than normal supervision. The work of the position normally includes:1) serving as a working leader of 6-8 employees in accomplishing trades and labor work; 2) demonstrating proper work practices; 3) inspecting subordinates' work to ensure proper procedures are followed; 4) operating material moving equipment and vehicles to move, load, unload, transfer and stack or unstack palletized goods from one location to another; 5) Check work in progress and when finished, check for compliance with supervisors' instructions on work sequence procedures, methods, and deadlines. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating. Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. Ability To Lead or Supervise Dexterity and Safety Knowledge of Materials Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order) PHYSICAL EFFORT: Performs work on hard surfaces and is required to stand for extended periods of time, and to bend, stoop, and work in tiring and sometimes uncomfortable positions. May lift and carry items that weigh up to 40 pounds, with heavier items being moved with weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is done inside or outside in areas that may be hot, damps, cold, drafty, or poorly lighted. May be exposed to cuts, scrapes, bruises, abrasions, falls, and injury from falling stock. May be exposed to dust, dirt, grease and solvents and exposure to toxins or chemical fumes. Work may require wearing protective clothing such as steel-toed shoes, rubber gloves, or rubber aprons. Education Additional Information The Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center occupies 1.5 million square feet of its Kingsbury Complex home. As the only multi-purpose and vertically integrated metal manufacturer in the Department of Defense, the center possesses the unique technical expertise and equipment to manufacture products high in quality and sustainability. RIA-JMTC also reaches out to the community by offering machinist apprenticeships and other training programs to qualified applicants. The availability of centralized manufacturing and testing allows production to come full circle, thus minimizing the need to outsource. This full service center holds within it the people and the equipment needed to meet goals of continuous process improvement, efficiently utilizing available time and money. RIA-JMTC values its ability to provide rapid response and superior products to both the Armed services and the consumer. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. This is a(n) Logistics Career Field position. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.