Warehouse Worker This position serves as a Warehouse Worker located within the Receiving/Distribution area of the Logistics Service in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System performing work that involves receiving, storing, selecting, and shipping general and/or specialized bulk and bin materials and equipment. Responsibilities include: Receives, stores, and ships bin and bulk supplies, materials, and equipment. Prepares shipping and inventory documents for manual or automated inventory systems. Selects specific storage locations within the framework of the general warehousing plan. Rotates stock, checks for outdated materials, and maintains the appropriate safeguards and temperature controls. Handles delivering and warehousing materials including hazardous, flammable, and temperature-sensitive products. Participates in conducting inventory of stock on hand and communicates discrepancies. Ensures products and shelving are marked with corresponding identification numbers. Loads and unloads shipments from trucks and other material conveyances. Makes off-site deliveries in motor vehicles typically with a gross weight not exceeding 26,000 Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR). Maintains the warehouse in a neat, clean, and orderly manner. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday; 8 hours between the hours of 6:00am - 4:00pm (Schedule may vary) Requirements: You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. You may be required to serve a probationary period. Pre-employment physical required. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements. Qualifications: Work involves considerable walking, pushing, and pulling a variety of carts and materials handling equipment. Works offloading and loading trucks, lifting products on and off-shelves, handling boxes frequently weighing over 40 pounds. Will frequently handle equipment, furniture, and materials of an awkward and heavier nature in excess of 100 pounds. These items are typically handled using specialized equipment and/or assistance of co-workers. Greater physical effort may be required on projects involving the movement of large quantities of product over an extended period of time including, but not limited to, turn-ins, large shipments, and deliveries. While operating vehicles, may be required to exert a greater level of physical exertion while backing and turning trucks, operating forklifts, or hand trucks on uneven terrains and uncertain conditions. Required to work in storage buildings, pods, trailers, vehicles, and warehouses that may be hot, cold, drafty, and poorly lighted. Employees work outdoors, on docks, making deliveries in all types of weather conditions during all seasons. Hazardous materials may be encountered in daily work activities. Duties will be subject to the possibility of trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or injury from the use of equipment. All types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required. May be subject to conditions that could result in serious accidents; precautions will be taken. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills, and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills, and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Dexterity and Safety, Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading), Materials, Technical Practices, Without more than normal supervision, Work Practices.