Store Worker

Description:

The primary purpose of the position is to perform the duties of a Store Worker (Fork Lift Operator). Store Workers serve in one or more commissary store departments (e.g., grocery, produce, warehouse, etc.) performing a variety of duties involved in receiving, handling, marking, preparing, displaying, and maintaining the stock of resale items. The work involves the regular and recurring operation of an electric, diesel, or gasoline powered fork lift.

Requirements:

You must meet qualifications and requirements by the closing date. Per the OPM Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations , how you gained the skill and/or knowledge or the length of time you have spent in this line of work is not as important as what you can do and that you have the required ability or potential to successfully perform the duties of this position. Your resume should show your specific knowledge, skill, and abilities for this position in relation to each of the elements being measured.

Examples of qualifying experience:

• Knowledge of stock turnover, shelf space allocation and customer preferences.
• Knowledge of brand names and sizes of grocery items or of the kinds and varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables to ensure the proper care and handling of certain items.
• Knowledge of location of items to assist customers, work practices to prepare, arrange or stack items together while maintaining safety for patrons and other employees.
• Preparing, arranging, or stacking items together for safety and neatness; rotating old stock.
• Operating a forklift.

You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
Physical requirements:

• Work requires continuous walking, standing, bending, or stooping, and the use of arms to fill shelves and counters.
• Frequently lifts or moves heavy boxes or crates weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally over 50 pounds.
• While operating a forklift, uses moderate physical effort in operating hand and foot controls while driving, turning, starting, and stopping the forklift, and raising, lowering, and tilting loads being moved.

You will attest to your ability to perform these physical requirements in the Questionnaire. As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate what you can do against what the work requires (job element method). This job has one critical element, called the screen-out element (SOE). The SOE addresses the critical knowledge, skill, and abilities essential to satisfactory job performance. Applicants who clearly fail to meet the lowest acceptable requirement in the SOE are rated ineligible and receive no further consideration. The job elements for this job are:

• Ability to perform the duties of a Store Worker (Fork Lift Operator) without more than normal supervision.
• Dexterity and Safety
• Interpret Instruction, Specification, etc.
• Materials
• Technical Practice
• Work Practice