Seasonal - Engineering Equipment Operator

Seasonal

• Engineering Equipment Operor Department of the Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Summary This position is an Engineering Equipment Operor, WG
• 5716-8 working in Atlanta, Georgia for the R4-Dale Bumpers White River NWR. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is an Engineering Equipment Operor, WG
• 5716-8 working in Atlanta, Georgia for the R4-Dale Bumpers White River NWR. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/06/2026 to 05/12/2026 Salary $25.92
• $30.24 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Saint Charles, AR Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• 1039 hours Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 5716 Engineering Equipment Opering Supervisory stus No Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Trust determinion process Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number

TS-26-12954621-KD-CTAP

Control number 868161200 This job is open to Help Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Veterans Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference Clarificion from the agency This position is only open to those who are eligible for ICTAP/CTAP and Veterans eligible for Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA). Duties Help This is a temporary appointment intended for seasonal work th is less than 6 months or 1040 hours from the de of appointment/service year. It is expected this position termined upon completion of the seasons work. The agency may non-competitively rehire an eligible temporary seasonal worker in subsequent years who works less than 6 months or 1040 hours in their service year. As a Seasonal

• Engineering Equipment Operor your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following: Operes bulldozer, angle dozer, or other tachments to push refuse into an open pit or to fill in demolished building sites and cover with earth, to clean ditches, to fill holes in dikes, or to excave ditches and ponds.

Operes farm tractors with auxiliary equipment for farming, mowing, maintaining dikes, and other reled activities. Operes crawler tractor in forested terrain in piling of slash, clearing brush, small trees, tree stumps, and rocks, and developing fire lanes. Operes front-end tachments to remove piles of dirt, to load trucks, or for the digging of earth or gravel. Conducts disking, chopping, mowing, rotoving, digging, loading and leveling to a rough grade for the purpose of ditch cleaning, culvert installion, creing and maintaining trails and fire breaks, pching potholes, and piling slash for various purposes. Performs minor repairs which include replacement of hoses, belts, fuses, light bulbs, etc. th do not require dismantling large components of the equipment such as radiors, hydraulic tanks, alternors, tracks, etc. Services equipment by checking fluids, lubricing, and performing safety checks.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Physical Effort:

Very strenuous effort is required in the operion and frequent adjustment of large pieces of equipment and tachments, often under adverse opering conditions. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibrion of the equipment and the jolting received from operion of the equipment over rough surfaces. Locion of the controls and tachments frequently requires work in awkward or strained positions. Daily equipment servicing requires bending, stooping, kneeling, and lifting of heavy objects. The employee frequently lifts, carries, and sets up parts and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds unassisted, and over 50 pounds with assistance. The employee uses jacks, pulleys, dollies, or other lifting and carrying devices. Work may be from ladders, scaffolding, plforms, or high places, and in hard-to-reach places. Frequent arm and leg movements are required to opere controls, make repairs, and build items.

Working Conditions:

Work is performed in all types of weher often in an open driver's se. Due to operions of large and compliced equipment, often in rough terrain, the operor is exposed to injury resulting from equipment overturning, and is subject to noise, vibrion, dust, and fumes from machinery. Caution must be exercised to avoid injury from moving machinery and breaking cables, and other difficult circumstances. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional. Suitability for employment, as determined by background investigion.

Driver's License:

This position requires the incumbent to opere a government (or prive) motor vehicle as part of their official duties. Selectee must hold and maintain a valid ste driver's license throughout their employment in this position. Individuals assigned male birth after 12-31-59 must be registered for the Selective Service. To verify registrion SSS.gov. Qualificions Only experience and educion obtained by 05/12/2026 In order to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Handbook X118C, Job Qualificion System for Trades and Labor Occupion.

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//www.opm.gov/qualificions/x-118c/ Although no specific amount of experience, educion or training is required, applicants must meet a minimum level of ability in relion to the position and the Assessment Questionnaire in order to be red qualified for considerion. To be qualified candides must meet any screen out element(s) listed an "acceptable" level, and must achieve an average ring of least "acceptable" on all of the elements. Only educion, training, or experience acquired before the closing de of this announcement

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT

Your qualificions will first be evalued against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess least the minimal acceptable qualificion requirement are considered for further ring; those who do not are red ineligible and are elimined. The potential eligibles are then red against the remainder of the Job Elements. The screen out element for this position is the ability to perform the work of an Engineering Equipment Operor without more than normal supervision.

These duties may include:

(1) Opering one or more types of heavy equipment (such as backhoes, skid steers, tractors, road graders) on fl or rolling terrain, or construction sites with simple terrain problems, to push, pull, pile, or load merials such as sand, gravel, earth, or refuse. (2) Ability to maneuver the equipment into position and move it about in less confined areas. (3) Perform minor maintenance/repair work to building, facilities, and equipment requiring basic use of hand and power tools. (4) Ability to follow instructions and specificions to accomplish work without more than normal supervision. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion There is no substitution of educion for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions. Additional informion

PCS INFORMATION

No PCS entitlements authorized

Telework:

This position is not suitable for telework.

Additional Vacancies:

One or more positions may be filled from applicions received under this announcement in the advertised office or other U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offices in the local commuting area. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Department of Interior (DOI) Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) procedures apply in filling this vacancy. These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separed from a federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: (1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; (2) be red well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including any selective placement factors; educion, and experience requirements) for the position with a score of 85 or above on the ring criteria for this position., and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. Applicants claiming

CTAP/ICTAP

eligibility must submit a copy of their most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with their applicion. For more informion : OPM's Employee Guide to

Career Transition Reasonable Accommodion:

The USFWS provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. Please USAJOBS Help Center | Reasonable accommodion policy if you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Once the announcement has closed, a review of your resume and supporting documention used to determine whether you meet the qualificion requirements listed on this announcement. If you meet the qualificions your resume and supporting documention compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience.

Note:

If, after reviewing your resume and supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions which resulted in you being listed in the highest quality cegory, you may lose considerion or be assigned to a lower quality cegory for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. Your qualificions evalued on the following

Job Elements:

Operion of Motor Vehicles. Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specificions, etc. (reled to mobile equipment operion). Work Practices (includes keeping things ne, clean, and in order). Ability To Opere Safely (Non-Motor Vehicle). All qualified candides assigned to a quality cegory. The cegory assignment is a measure of the degree in which your background mches the competencies required for this position. The cegory rings for this position are: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, and Qualified. The Cegory Ring Process does not add veterans' preference points or apply the "rule of three" but protects the rights of Veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each quality cegory. Veterans' preference eligibles who meet the minimum qualificion requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of least 10 percent listed in the highest quality cegory (except in the case of scientific or professional positions the GS-09 level or higher). Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help You must submit a complete applicion package. We will not make assumptions about your experience and/or educion.

Required Documents:

1.

Resume:

You may only submit one resume. Only the resume submitted under the "Resume" "Document Type" used to determine your qualificions and for ring purposes. Your resume must describe your job-reled qualificions (paid and non-paid work experience) th includes job title, beginning and ending des (month and year), and description of job duties. You are highly encouraged to use USAJOBS Resume Builder to ensure all required informion is included. If you use your own resume, curriculum vitae, or any other written form, you must ensure this informion is provided. Your resume must show complete informion for each job entry to support minimum qualificions. Failure to provide ALL required informion on your resume will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.

Note:

Current and former Federal employees should include pay plan, series, and grade level for relevant federal experience. If experience is for a career ladder position, please ensure to clearly distinguish the job duties for each grade level and how long you were working in each grade level. Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents. 2.

Proof of Eligibility:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention:

Certificion of Expected Separion or Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice or Notice of Proposed Removal AND Most recent Performance Ring AND Most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion or SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action.

OR Veterans' Preference Documention:

If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-point veterans' preference, you must tach a copy of your DD-214 Member Copy 2 or 4 showing you were honorably discharged. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by th form. (i.e. VA letter). You may not be awarded preference if you do not tach the correct Veteran Documention as specified above.

Additional Documention if applicable:

1. Cover Letter 2.

College Transcripts:

A copy of your transcripts must be submitted. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable. A copy of your official transcripts required if you are selected. Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Review the appointment eligibility criteria in the applicion preview linked below. The eligibility section of the applicion allows you to choose how you wish to be considered for this vacancy announcement. You will ONLY be considered for the eligibilities th you select "yes" to and submit the required supporting documention, as listed in the Required Documents section or the applicion text. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond th you do not meet any of the eligibility criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package . See required documents section. Click 'Apply' to cree an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the questions presented in the applicion and upload required documents. To preview the questions presented in the applicion, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12954621 . Please ensure you check the acknowledgement checkbox then click the Submit Applicion button to submit your applicion. Applicions must be received by 05/12/2026, 11:59pm ET to receive considerion. Check applicion stus by logging into your USAJOBS account, in Applicions tab, click the position title you applied to for the stus. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact the Human Resources Office via email fwshiring@fws.gov. Agency contact informion Human Resources Staffing Division fwshiring@fws.gov Next steps Once you submit all the required documents and the online applicion in USAJOBS, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After the evaluion process is complete, you notified of your stus and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted by the hiring official. You notified if this job is filled or canceled. Timelines for this process vary widely. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help You must submit a complete applicion package. We will not make assumptions about your experience and/or educion.

Required Documents:

1.

Resume:

You may only submit one resume. Only the resume submitted under the "Resume" "Document Type" used to determine your qualificions and for ring purposes. Your resume must describe your job-reled qualificions (paid and non-paid work experience) th includes job title, beginning and ending des (month and year), and description of job duties. You are highly encouraged to use USAJOBS Resume Builder to ensure all required informion is included. If you use your own resume, curriculum vitae, or any other written form, you must ensure this informion is provided. Your resume must show complete informion for each job entry to support minimum qualificions. Failure to provide ALL required informion on your resume will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.

Note:

Current and former Federal employees should include pay plan, series, and grade level for relevant federal experience. If experience is for a career ladder position, please ensure to clearly distinguish the job duties for each grade level and how long you were working in each grade level. Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents. 2.

Proof of Eligibility:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention:

Certificion of Expected Separion or Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice or Notice of Proposed Removal AND Most recent Performance Ring AND Most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion or SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action.

OR Veterans' Preference Documention:

If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-point veterans' preference, you must tach a copy of your DD-214 Member Copy 2 or 4 showing you were honorably discharged. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by th form. (i.e. VA letter). You may not be awarded preference if you do not tach the correct Veteran Documention as specified above.

Additional Documention if applicable:

1. Cover Letter 2.

College Transcripts:

A copy of your transcripts must be submitted. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable. A copy of your official transcripts required if you are selected. Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Review the appointment eligibility criteria in the applicion preview linked below. The eligibility section of the applicion allows you to choose how you wish to be considered for this vacancy announcement. You will ONLY be considered for the eligibilities th you select "yes" to and submit the required supporting documention, as listed in the Required Documents section or the applicion text. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond th you do not meet any of the eligibility criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package . See required documents section. Click 'Apply' to cree an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the questions presented in the applicion and upload required documents. To preview the questions presented in the applicion, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12954621 . Please ensure you check the acknowledgement checkbox then click the Submit Applicion button to submit your applicion. Applicions must be received by 05/12/2026, 11:59pm ET to receive considerion. Check applicion stus by logging into your USAJOBS account, in Applicions tab, click the position title you applied to for the stus. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact the Human Resources Office via email fwshiring@fws.gov. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Human Resources Staffing Division fwshiring@fws.gov Next steps Once you submit all the required documents and the online applicion in USAJOBS, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After the evaluion process is complete, you notified of your stus and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted by the hiring official. You notified if this job is filled or canceled. Timelines for this process vary widely. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/06/2026 to 05/12/2026 Salary $25.92

• $30.24 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Saint Charles, AR Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• 1039 hours Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

TS-26-12954621-KD-CTAP

Control number 868161200