What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gardener (Motor Vehicle Operator) position at Veterans Health Administration?
This position reports to the Gardner Supervisor in the Environmental Management Service and the San Francisco VA Health Care System in San Francisco, CA. The primary purpose of the position involves performing a full scale of gardening tasks, within the 23acre campus.
WORK CONDITIONS: Work is done outside or in a parking garage. In working outside, incumbent is subject to discomfort from long periods in the hot sun, and occasionally to chilly or rainy weather. Being exposed to dirt, dust, mud, and sometimes to dusts and wildfire smoke, they must wear protective clothing such as gloves, safety glasses, and boots with safety toes. There is chance of minor injuries such as bruises, cuts, and scrapes and occasional possibility of broken bones from falls.
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:
IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
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.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Qualifications:
PHYSICAL EFFORT: The work requires frequent walking, standing, pushing of carts and wheelbarrows, bending, kneeling, and stooping. Often lift and handle materials weighing over 23 kilograms (50 pounds) for extended periods. Occasionally climbs ladders to prune or trim vegetation and frequently lifts heavy objects such as bags of fertilizer, grass seed, etc.WORK CONDITIONS: Work is done outside or in a parking garage. In working outside, incumbent is subject to discomfort from long periods in the hot sun, and occasionally to chilly or rainy weather. Being exposed to dirt, dust, mud, and sometimes to dusts and wildfire smoke, they must wear protective clothing such as gloves, safety glasses, and boots with safety toes. There is chance of minor injuries such as bruises, cuts, and scrapes and occasional possibility of broken bones from falls.
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
- Measuring Instruments
- Technical Practices
- Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
- Without more than normal supervision
IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
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.
Responsibilities:
Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:- Operates various high powered specialized lawn cutting equipment with various implements. Large agricultural type tractors, trucks from 1/2 ton to 5ton dumps. Seeders, tillers, mowers, dethatchers, aerators, sprayers, gas weed eaters and various gas-powered, electric, and manual hand tools.
- Maintains control of various gardening supplies, which incumbent will initiate requests for.
- Handles nursery stock, bedding plants, bulbs, etc., in healthy condition prior to their installation.
- Administers plant propagation; sexual and asexual.
- Transplant trees and shrubs that landscape renovation and/or building construction require to be relocated.
- Prunes to remove dead, dying, diseased wood from shrubbery and trees and prepares purchase order requests for vendor services when the work cannot be performed by station employees.
- Works from project plans, master landscape, and long-range plans, making independent judgments within the framework of good gardening practices.
- Recommend plants for particular purposes, e.g., shade, boundary lines, ground cover, erosion control, or pleasing appearance.
- Provide administrative assistance to Environmental Care Chief and Supervisors with regards to documentation preparation and supply requests and tracking.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Salary : $29 - $33
