Maintenance Worker

Maintenance Worker Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Nional Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Summary This position is loced with the United Stes Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Facilities Engineering, Plains Area, in the Nional Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), in Manhtan, Kansas. In this position, you an integral member of the Grounds/Vehicle Group, performing a full range of activities involving the NBAF campus outside maintenance and landscaping. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced with the United Stes Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Facilities Engineering, Plains Area, in the Nional Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), in Manhtan, Kansas. In this position, you an integral member of the Grounds/Vehicle Group, performing a full range of activities involving the NBAF campus outside maintenance and landscaping. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this week • Apply by 07/14/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 14, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Manhtan, KS No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $27.60 - $32.24 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 4749 Maintenance Mechanic Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Modere Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

ARS-S26Y-12992960-GAJ

Control number 874346700 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Videos Duties Help Perform the full range of outside maintenance and landscaping activities involved on campus facilities. Maintain work and equipment areas and work with supervisor to ensure supplies and equipment are on hand. Maintain surfaces such as sidewalks, steps, walls, curbs, ramps, roads, etc. Ensure adherence to conduct, safety, fire, care of equipment, housekeeping rules and regulions. Remove broken concrete and prepare subsurfaces for repair including leveling ground and tamping fill merial such as sand, dirt, and gravel. Opere pickup trucks, panel trucks, flbed trucks, and other vehicles (weight up to 10,000 pounds) to tow and carry equipment, lawn merials, supplies, etc. Prune and trim shrubs, trees, and other plants as required to obtain a proper balance between roots and top growth. Requirements Help Conditions of employment You must be a US Citizen or US Nional. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt. Subject to sisfactory adjudicion of background investigion and/or fingerprint check. Successful completion of one-year probionary period, unless previously served. Refer to the Next Steps section for more informion. Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, E-Verify https://www.e-verify.gov/. Motor vehicle or commercial driver's license required. Drug Test Required. Vaccine(s) Required. Special Physical Requirements/Demands. SAC and full background investigion required for positions working with BSL-3 (or higher) agents, or in

BSL-3/BSL-4

facilities. Department of Justice (DOJ) Security Risk Assessment (SRA) approval is required. Immunizions may be required. Respiror fitting and certificion are required. Required to report or duty during emergencies, critical periods, or during times when there are Government closures due to inclement weher or lapses in funding. Required to lift up to 100 pounds with approprie support. Require pre-employment medical examinion after receipt of a conditional job offer and on a periodic basis after onboarding. Must pass periodic fitness for duty physicals. May require a baseline blood sample for employees entering and working in the biocontainment facilities. All personnel entering the BSL-3 or higher biocontainment facilities NBAF shall not be in contact with specific susceptible animals and their premises away from NBAF for a period of five (5) days after leaving biocontainment. Qualificions In order to qualify for this position you must meet the following by the closing de of the vacancy announcement: 07/14/2026Qualificions determined under the Job Element Ring System X-118C, Qualificions Standard Handbook. While a specific length of time and experience is not required for most Wage Grade positions, you must show through experience and training th you possess the best qualified level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of this position. Qualificion requirements emphasize the quality of experience, not necessarily the length. The responses to the questionnaire and your resume should be in significant detail to provide the person ring your applicion with a good understanding of your ability to do the job, technical knowledge, work, and training experience, etc. (For example You must have the ability to perform the duties of a, Maintenance Workerwithout more than normal supervision (Screen Out)). Applicants who do not meet the

SCREEN OUT ELEMENT

will not be given further considerion. Working Conditions The incumbent works both inside and outside. In the operion of equipment and other activities, the incumbent is subject to dust, dirt, grease, scrapes, burns, infections, fumes, drafts, noise, chemical dust, and varying temperures outside including extreme temperures. The incumbent follows prescribed safety practices and uses safety equipment to avoid injury and possible hazards in the work area. In mixing substances and applying pesticides, wears respirors, gloves, and other personal protective equipment. The health stus of personnel is monitored periodically using biologic and serologic tests and physical examinions. Restrictions against contact with birds and livestock outside the laborory may apply after entering high security animal facilities th are working with disease agents foreign to the United Stes. For the health and safety of the incumbent and to prevent the spread of disease, immunizion against diseases being studied which are transmissible to humans may be required. To prevent the transmission of disease out of biocontainment and retention of the position, the incumbent must meet the following medical standards in a pre-employment medical examinion conducted after the receipt of a preliminary job offer and on a periodic basis: Ability to shower out of biocontainment one or more times per day; Not have any skin condition which would prevent this; Body piercings must be able to be removed prior to entry; External medical assist devices must have the ability to be removed prior to entering or not impede the ability to enter biocontainment, and the individual must still be able to shower out safely without assistance; Ability to follow instructions regarding decontaminion from biocontainment; Any medical condition which could cree an unsafe environment for the individual or his/her co-workers, such as: insufficient control of a medical disorder which could result in sudden loss of consciousness; and inadeque vision and hearing required for safety in a laborory environment. Due to the contagious nure to livestock of Foot-and-Mouth disease, and other diseases under study NBAF, Biological Safety Regulions specify a personal quarantine for employees working in

BSL-3, 3

enhanced, 3 Ag and 4 biocontainment. As a condition for employment, all personnel entering the BSL-3 or higher biocontainment facilities NBAF shall not be in contact with specific susceptible animals and their premises away from NBAF for a period of five (5) days after leaving biocontainment. Currently, restricted species are ctle, sheep, gos, deer, other ruminants, and swine. Contact with horses, birds (agricultural and pet birds) and rabbits are normally permitted, but restrictions may be placed on staff working with or near-contagious agents affecting these species. Restricted livestock or other restricted animals may not be housed on the premises where the employee lives and where quarantine cannot be enforced. Employees who viole this requirement may be removed from employment or subject to other disciplinary actions. Physical Effort The work requires frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, reaching, and arm and leg movement to opere equipment, and exposure to vibrion, jerking and jolting in operion over rough terrain. The work also involves climbing ladders and stretching to reach tree limbs, etc. and pushing carts and wheelbarrows. The incumbent is required to lift up to 100 pounds with approprie precautions, support and/or mechanical lifting devices. Educion This position does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informion Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the OPM website for informion on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candides must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors.

CTAP/ICTAP

candides must be red and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluion of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evalued section. When assessed through a score-based cegory ring method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a ring of least 85 out of a possible 100. Recruitment or Relocion Incentive may be authorized. Final determinion to pay an incentive made by the hiring official time of job offer. This is a Testing Designed Position (TDP). Selectee must submit to a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and random testing thereafter. Final appointment and continued employment is conditional on negive results for illegal drug use. 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 . 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. Applicions evalued in accordance with Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Deleged Examining Procedures and USDA policy using cegory ring. Applicants who meet basic minimum qualificions placed in one of three cegories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Within these cegories, applicants eligible for veteran's preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans. Cegory placement determined based on applicants' quality of experience and the extent they possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) or competencies: Ability to Do the Work of the Position without More Than Normal Supervision Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specificions, etc. (Includes Blueprint Reading) Ability to Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installion, and Repair, etc. Knowledge of Merials Technical Practices (Theoretical, Precise, Artistic) Use of Measuring Instruments Your applicion, including the online Assessment Questionnaire, reviewed to determine if you meet (a) minimum qualificion requirements and (b) the resume supports the answers provided to the job-specific questions. Your resume must clearly support your responses to all the questions addressing experience and educion relevant to this position. Those determined to be in the best qualified cegory referred to the selecting official for considerion.

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If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurely reflect your abilities, or you may be found ineligible. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring. Providing inaccure informion on Federal documents could be grounds for non-selection or disciplinary action up to including removal from the Federal service. Clicking the link below will present a preview of the applicion form; i.e. the online questionnaire. The applicion form link below will only provide a preview and does not initie the applicion process. To initie the online applicion process, click the "Apply" button to the right. To view the applicion form, : https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12992960 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 . 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 The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion.

Resume th includes:

Personal Informion:

name, address, contact informion; Educion ; Work Experience reled to this position as described in the major duties including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment; title, series, grade (if applicable); other qualificions . Resume cannot exceed 2 pages . If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the NACES website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. If claiming veteran's preference, you must submit a DD214, Certifice of Release from Active Duty, which shows des of service and discharge under honorable conditions.

If currently on active duty you must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty service under honorable conditions not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is submitted.

Veteran's preference must be verified prior to appointment.

Without this documention, you will not receive veteran's preference and your applicion evalued based on the merial(s) submitted. If claiming 10-point veteran's preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion requirements (see above bullet), plus the proof of entitlement of this preference as listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans' Preference. The SF-15 should be included but is not required. Failure to submit these documents could result in the determinion th there is insufficient documention to support your claim for 10-point preference. For more informion on veterans' preference

FEDSHIREVETS

Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m., Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be complete and submitted no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and tach your resume and all required documents. Please verify th documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume th exceeds two pages removed from considerion. Agency contact informion Grace Adams-Johnson Grace.adams-johnson@usda.gov Address Agricultural Research Service 2150 Centre Avenue Building D, Suite 300 Fort Collins, CO 80526 US Next steps 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. Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your USAJOBS account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the Fair Chance Act, agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other informion reled to an organizion's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to Rachel.amroliwalla@usda.gov , subject line: Fair Chance Act. 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 The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion.

Resume th includes:

Personal Informion:

name, address, contact informion; Educion ; Work Experience reled to this position as described in the major duties including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment; title, series, grade (if applicable); other qualificions . Resume cannot exceed 2 pages . If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the NACES website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. If claiming veteran's preference, you must submit a DD214, Certifice of Release from Active Duty, which shows des of service and discharge under honorable conditions.

If currently on active duty you must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty service under honorable conditions not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is submitted.

Veteran's preference must be verified prior to appointment.

Without this documention, you will not receive veteran's preference and your applicion evalued based on the merial(s) submitted. If claiming 10-point veteran's preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion requirements (see above bullet), plus the proof of entitlement of this preference as listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans' Preference. The SF-15 should be included but is not required. Failure to submit these documents could result in the determinion th there is insufficient documention to support your claim for 10-point preference. For more informion on veterans' preference

FEDSHIREVETS

Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m., Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be complete and submitted no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and tach your resume and all required documents. Please verify th documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume th exceeds two pages removed from considerion. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Grace Adams-Johnson Grace.adams-johnson@usda.gov Address Agricultural Research Service 2150 Centre Avenue Building D, Suite 300 Fort Collins, CO 80526 US Next steps 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. Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your USAJOBS account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the Fair Chance Act, agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other informion reled to an organizion's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to Rachel.amroliwalla@usda.gov , subject line: Fair Chance Act. 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 Posted this week • Apply by 07/14/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 14, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Manhtan, KS No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $27.60 - $32.24 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 8 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

ARS-S26Y-12992960-GAJ

Control number 874346700