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, La Grande, Oregon

Salary Range: $22.75 - $22.75 Per Hour

Job Summary: This position is located within a National Forest. The incumbent performs a wide range of warehousing and materials handling activities that include receiving, storing, repairing, refurbishing, and shipping a variety of supplies, equipment and materials.

Major Duties:

• Loads and unloads supplies and equipment using manual and/or automated stock moving equipment such as forklifts, manual and mechanized pallet jacks in warehouses and outdoor environments.
• Utilizes an automated inventory database with handheld information technology device compatibility to locate and identify inventory.
• Checks, assembles, and processes documents, and routes materials and equipment to the correct locations or storage areas.
• Verifies or prepares documents either manually or by using automated equipment to read, store, track, and prepare materials documentation.
• Validates and ensures correctness for shipping, receiving and incident returns on quantities, identification criteria, and labeling. Identifies and reports discrepancies.
• Ensures that inventory records are accurate and current. Prepares reports on inventory status. Uses automated equipment to load computerized inventory data, access inventory information, fill item requisitions and process returns.
• Completes appropriate documentation, segregates supplies and identifies accounts by verifying electronically customer and incident/project support information.
• Performs the off-loading of returns. Inspects inventory and identifies supplies and equipment to be repaired, refurbished, disposed, restocked or routed to external parties.
• Performs repair and/or refurbishment on National Fire Equipment System (NFES) inventory meeting NFES Fire Equipment Storage and Refurbishment Standards.
• Performs kit assembly, packaging and refurbishment.
• Provides assistance in developing plans, laying out storage space, establishing item locations, determining organization and arrangement of stock and identifying high and low usage items according to agency regulations and procedures.
• Works independently to consolidate materials and provide maximum space utilization and protection of supplies and equipment.
• Packs and/or repacks for shipment and/or storage, a variety of tools, parts, equipment, supplies, printed materials or other items.
• Considers special requirements such as size, weight or mode of transportation and blocks or braces sensitive materials and equipment.
• May wrap, strap, tape, staple, seal, weigh, and label containers. Completes and provides appropriate documentation for transportation ensuring compliance with all applicable rules and regulations for identification/labeling, handling and security.

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. Selective Placement Factors: Incumbent is required to operate Government vehicles. Must have and maintain a valid state driver's license. Incumbent is required to operate Government vehicles some of which MAY require the operator to possess a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL). If a CDL is required, the incumbent is subject to random drug testing and will be placed in the drug testing pool. Selectee must submit to a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and random testing thereafter. Final appointment and continued employment are conditional on negative results for illegal drug use. This announcement constitutes 30 days advance notice. 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