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Summary This position is located in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, in the Facility Management Division. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately July - May, and you will be in a non-pay status at least 2 weeks during the month of June or up to 6 months per year based on project requirements or weather conditions. Responsibilities You will perform Maintenance Worker (Trails) duties at a high level of competency, often taking on the most complicated phases of project work assigned to the crew to include: Occasionally leading lower graded workers, volunteers, and Interns in carpentry, masonry, rigging, and motor vehicle trail maintenance related operations Transport tools, materials, employees, vehicles, and equipment with a variety of vehicles weighing under 26,000 GVW to job sites and trailheads Operate and maintain a variety of track type and rubber wheeled gasoline and diesel equipment such as front-end loaders, rollers, tractors with auxiliary attachments, utility terrain vehicles (UTV's), forklifts, dump trucks, mowers, mini excavators, and other types of equipment associated with support of Trail Maintenance related tasks. Intermittently leading and teaching lower graded employees, trails interns, volunteers and youth crews in all aspects of trail maintenance activities. A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected. The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties. Prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year thereafter (or more frequently if management determines such need exists), you will be required to sign an affidavit certifying to your possession of a valid State issued driver's license that is current and has not been revoked, suspended, canceled, or otherwise disqualified in any way to prohibit your operation of a motor vehicle. You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists. Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license. You may be required to complete training and operate a four-wheel drive vehicle. Ability to lift 60 number of pounds. You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime work. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel within the park bounties. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Government Charge Card: You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. Qualifications To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT) If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors. Volunteer Experience: 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. Education There is no substitution of education for experience for Wage Grade (WG) positions. Additional Information This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR 575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive. A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another. Physical Demands: Heavy physical effort is required in bending, lifting and using hand and power tools in trail work. As examples of typical strenuous activity, the incumbent: Frequently lifts and carries objects weighing 60 lbs. and occasionally lifts objects weighing up to 80 lbs., must carry and roll rocks and logs, move rocks of several tons with rock bars, use hammers to crush or shape rock, and use shovel and other hand tools extensively. Frequently hikes up to 4 miles daily and occasionally up to 8 miles and must be able to do so while carrying a backpack, power and/or hand tools. Working Conditions: Work is performed indoors and outdoors on high, narrow, steep, and congested trails at elevation that rises approximately 1000 to 2000 feet. May occasionally work in situations that require fall protection, such as on the sides of exposed cliffs or atop scaffolding. Work is performed in all types of weather and involves exposure to extreme heat, dampness, wind, dusts, and noise. Trail work is dusty. Hazardous conditions may exist when moving rocks and logs, working in and around rockslide areas, falling and bucking trees, and working around rigging equipment and machinery. Work will also require incumbent to work occasionally around and near Poison Oak. ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies