Materials Handler

Materials Handler

Department: Department of Agriculture

Location(s): Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, Washington, District of Columbia, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, Boston, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri, Albuquerque, New Mexico, New York, New York, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Draper, Utah, Jackson, Wyoming

Salary Range: $20.54 - $20.58 Per Hour

Job Summary: This position is located within a National Forest. The incumbent is responsible for performing work in receiving, storing, and shipping a variety of supplies, equipment and materials. Duties also include packing and repacking a variety of stock items.

Major Duties:

• Receives, marks, and stores a variety of bin and bulk supplies, materials, equipment and commodities.
• Inspects incoming shipments for quantity, and quality; sorts and segregates material for storage.
• Loads, unloads, stacks, bins, rotates, and marks stock in accordance with standardized operating instructions.
• Completes forms relating to stock description, quantity, unit of issue, and labeling requirements for incoming and outgoing materials, equipment, and commodities.
• Checks shipping documents to verify incoming and outgoing shipments.
• Identifies obvious damage to equipment and materials through visual inspection. Reports discrepancies and damage to the supervisor or higher grade employee.
• Uses hardcopy or automated material identification equipment such as bar code wands, computer terminals, and laser scanners to select storage location. Stocks, moves, rotates, and arranges warehouse items.
• Reviews approved requisition documents. Determines stock locations and makes selections for shipment or distribution by quantity and stock number. Prepares materials for orders and packs for delivery. Obtains signatures to acknowledge delivery.
• Uses common hand tools including hammers, screwdrivers and/or pliers, as well as strapping tools, and stapling and banding machines.
• Operates hand trucks, hand lifts, pallet jacks, dollies, and/or electric jack lifts.
• May use warehouse tractors, tugs and/or forklifts, and general purpose vehicles under close supervision or in developmental capacity.
• Adheres to all safety regulations, security of the materials in storage, and safeguarding the keys to storage areas.
• May use computerized equipment to compile, input and reconcile information.

Qualifications: In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Wage System Qualifications Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to perform the duties of the position rather than length of experience. Eligibility will be determined by the relevance, scope and quality of all experience and training, regardless of where or how acquired. Applicants will be ranked and rated based on their knowledge of the job elements identified in this announcement. Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean, and in order) Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints) Knowledge of Materials Dexterity and Safety There is no substitution of education for this position. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

How to Apply: Please view Tips for Applicants - a guide to the Forest Service application process. Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Mountain Time Zone, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing date for an alternate method. All hardship application packages must be complete and submitted no later than noon ET on the closing date of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodation 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 attach your resume and all required documents. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that 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 formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.

Application Deadline: 2026-01-14