Engineering Equipment Operator
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Georgia National Cemetery
Canton, GA (In Person)
$71,364 Salary, Full-Time
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Engineering Equipment Operor Department of Veterans Affairs Nional Cemetery Administrion Georgia Nional Cemetery Summary This position is loced the Georgia Nional Cemetery in Canton, Georgia. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced the Georgia Nional Cemetery in Canton, Georgia. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/05/2026 to 05/14/2026 Salary $31.68 - $36.94 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Canton, GA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent 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
RP-26-MPS-12951593-NBU
Control number 867727200 This job is open to Help Federal employees - Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Land and base management Current or former employees of a base management agency. 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 Military spouses Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty. Individuals with disabilities Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A. Family of overseas employees Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas. Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista Individuals who have served least 2 years with the Peace Corps or 1 year with AmeriCorps VISTA. Special authorities Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring ph. Clarificion from the agency Open to all Stus Eligible Applicants. Videos Duties Help This position is for an Engineering Equipment Operor loced Nional Cemeteries opered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Nional Cemetery Administrion. The primary mission of the cemetery is to meet the needs of veterans and their eligible family members by providing dignified burials and maintaining the cemetery as a nional shrine. The incumbent serves as Engineering Equipment Operor (EEO) for all field activities. The incumbent assists with all the interment activities, headstone, building maintenance and the maintenance of the cemetery's complete inventory of vehicles and equipment. The incumbent also contributes to the overall quality of cemetery grounds maintenance by observing and reporting problems with contractor grounds maintenance activities to the supervisor. The EEO performs routine activities reled to the core mission of the cemetery, interments, preventive building and equipment maintenance and repairs on all vehicles, equipment, buildings, facilities, roads and curbing. Work schedule : May be required to work Monday through Friday to include occasional weekends. Due to the mission of the Nional Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days any given time. Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on th holiday or a Surday. All staff is required to work Memorial Day each year. Staff required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.Compressed/Flexible Schedule:
Not Available Position Description Title/PD# : Engineering Equipment Operor / PD136400 The full performance level of this position is WG - 08.Relocion Expenses :
Not Authorized Relocion/Recruitment Incentives:
Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report :
Not Required If interested in applying for this position you may preview the online applicion: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12951593 Requirements Help Conditions of employment Subject to a background/security investigion. Designed and/or random drug testing may be required. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. You may be required to serve a probionary period. You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job. Pass a pre-employment medical examinion. Must possess a valid ste driver's license. Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Qualificions To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing de of this announcement,05/14/2026. Candides must demonstre the potential to opere equipment such as graders, tractors with bulldozer or angledozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scraper tachments. Evidence of this potential can be shown through work, training, or educion th establishes proficiency in opering this type of equipment. Candides with experience opering mini excavors and Toolc-type equipment, customer service, computer dabase utilizion, telephone communicion, and experience reading maps and charts are preferred.EXPERIENCE
A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstres you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants red in accordance with the OPM Qualificion Standard Handbook X-118C ( www.opm.gov/qualificions/x-118c ).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(s) for this position are/is: Ability to do the job without more than normal supervision. Must possess and maintain a valid ste driver's license.JOB ELEMENTS
Those who meet the minimum level of experience and training for the screen-out element will then be evalued in each of the following job elements: Interpret Instructions, Specificions, etc. Motor Vehicles Opere Safely Without more than normal supervision Work Practices 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; religions; 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.Note :
A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience credited on the basis of time actually spent in approprie activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indice clearly the nure of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.Physical Requirements:
This position requires heavy physical effort with reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet and legs to opere the different sets of controls while opering the equipment and tachments. The Incumbent may be subjected to considerable strain caused by vibrion, jerking, and jolting of the equipment over rough surfaces and the need to opere controls in awkward positions. Heavy effort is frequently exercised when performing duties such as tamping, carrying caskets/urns, lifting/moving grave planks, setting headstones, etc. Incumbent must be able to walk on hilly, fl, or rolling terrain. This position requires the employee to life weights up to 50 lbs. Occasionally items weighing more than 50 lbs are lifted with assistance from co-workers. Employee may be exposed to noise levels exceeding 85 dBA for up to eight (8) hours per day. This exposure may adversely affect hearing.Working Conditions:
Work must be performed outdoors, and incumbent exposed to all types of weher throughout the year. Incumbent exposed to the sun, noise, extreme hear, and humidity, cold, snow, rain, wind, and is subject to dirt, dust, fumes (from motor and exhaust) mud, and wer. Work is performed in areas where pesticides, insecticides, and fertilizers are applied. Approprie protective equipment worn. The operor is exposed to injury from mishaps th may be involved in the operion of grounds maintenance equipment. Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. All applicants tentively selected for VA employment in a testing designed position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drugs use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested denied employment with VA. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which we will evalue your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probionary period, your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. Educion This job does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informionSpecial Employment Considerion:
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for informion on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinor. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website http://www.opm.gov/policy-da-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ .Placement Policy:
The posting of this announcement does not oblige management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstement. Management may use any one or any combinion of these methods to fill the position. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, Human Resources and Administrion/Operions, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) The Fair Chance Act .Veterans and Transitioning Service Members :
Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members. For more informion on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Stus Candides and Other Candide Definitions document. 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.IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). If you are referred for considerion, you may be asked to submit additional job reled informion, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring or considerion for employment. 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 To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume Please note th resumes must be provided in English to be If your resume includes photographs, inapproprie merial, inapproprie content, or personal informion such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., you will not be considered for this vacancy. Please limit your resume to 2 pages with the font size no smaller than 10 points. The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please use this checklist to make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, orICTAP/CTAP
documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion. Cover Letter DD-214/ Stement of Service Disability Letter (Schedule A) Disability Letter (VA) References Other (2) Performance Appraisal Proof of Marriage Stus Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript Veterans' Preference:
When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference for 5pt (TP), 10pt (CP/CPS/XP), or for Sole Survivor Preference (SSP) in the questionnaire. You must provide a legible copy of your DD214(s) which shows des and character of service (honorable, general, etc.). If you are currently serving on active duty and expect to be released or discharged within 120 days you must submit documention reled to your active duty service which reflects the des of service, character of service (honorable, general, etc.), and des of impending separion. Additionally, disabled Veterans and others eligible for 10-point preference (such as widows or mothers of eligible Veterans) must also submit an SF-15 "Applicion for 10 Point Veteran Preference" with required proof as sted on the form. Documention is required to award preference. For more informion on Veterans' Preference, please www.fedshirevets.gov/job-seekers/veterans/veterans-preference/#content . How to Apply Help All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 05/14/2026 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12951593 . To begin, click Apply Online to cree aUSA JOBS
account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select yourUSA JOBS
resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.NOTE:
It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. To verify your applicion is complete, log into yourUSA JOBS
account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the more informion link for this position. The Applicion page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent reled to this applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into yourUSA JOBS
account and click Upde Applicion in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from yourUSA JOBS
account or your applicion incomplete. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further considerion for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to upde the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include informion relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualificions if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formting 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. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you cree a resume using these recommendions and uses the informion in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Agency contact informion NCA Human Resources Center NCA.HRC@VA.GOV Address Georgia Nional Cemetery Scott Hudgens Drive Canton, GA 30114 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center . 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 To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume Please note th resumes must be provided in English to be If your resume includes photographs, inapproprie merial, inapproprie content, or personal informion such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., you will not be considered for this vacancy. Please limit your resume to 2 pages with the font size no smaller than 10 points. The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please use this checklist to make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, orICTAP/CTAP
documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion. Cover Letter DD-214/ Stement of Service Disability Letter (Schedule A) Disability Letter (VA) References Other (2) Performance Appraisal Proof of Marriage Stus Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript Veterans' Preference:
When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference for 5pt (TP), 10pt (CP/CPS/XP), or for Sole Survivor Preference (SSP) in the questionnaire. You must provide a legible copy of your DD214(s) which shows des and character of service (honorable, general, etc.). If you are currently serving on active duty and expect to be released or discharged within 120 days you must submit documention reled to your active duty service which reflects the des of service, character of service (honorable, general, etc.), and des of impending separion. Additionally, disabled Veterans and others eligible for 10-point preference (such as widows or mothers of eligible Veterans) must also submit an SF-15 "Applicion for 10 Point Veteran Preference" with required proof as sted on the form. Documention is required to award preference. For more informion on Veterans' Preference, please www.fedshirevets.gov/job-seekers/veterans/veterans-preference/#content . How to Apply Help All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 05/14/2026 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12951593 . To begin, click Apply Online to cree aUSA JOBS
account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select yourUSA JOBS
resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.NOTE:
It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. To verify your applicion is complete, log into yourUSA JOBS
account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the more informion link for this position. The Applicion page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent reled to this applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into yourUSA JOBS
account and click Upde Applicion in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from yourUSA JOBS
account or your applicion incomplete. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further considerion for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to upde the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include informion relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualificions if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formting 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. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you cree a resume using these recommendions and uses the informion in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion NCA Human Resources Center NCA.HRC@VA.GOV Address Georgia Nional Cemetery Scott Hudgens Drive Canton, GA 30114 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center . 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 05/05/2026 to 05/14/2026 Salary $31.68 - $36.94 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Canton, GA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent 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 numberRP-26-MPS-12951593-NBU
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