This position is located in the Transportation section at the VA Medical center in Los Angeles, CA.

• Applies experience using patience, consideration and good judgment while transporting patients.
• Works cooperatively with other personnel regarding the transportation of patients.
• Drives in congested traffic in major cities transporting patients to other medical facilities and/or picking up or delivering records, x-rays, supplies, equipment and other items.
• Performs minor vehicle maintenance on all vehicles.
• Performs daily inspections of each vehicle and equipment prior to use.
• Operates a variety of vehicles on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regular established scheduled over improved or unimproved roads.
• Operates a variety of motor vehicles including sedans, station wagons, mini and passenger vans, ambulance, 18 passenger van, rubbish truck.
• Plans routes to ensure safe transportation of passengers.
• Performs other duties assigned as it relates to the position.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Pre-employment physical may be required
• Selected applicants may be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To Qualify for this position you must have knowledge of vehicles equipped with special-purpose accessory equipment. know how to use the power devices that operate van lifts and skill in manipulating a variety of controls and understanding equipment gauges, engine fluid level instruments and warning signals. At this grade level, drivers know how to operate vehicles that are larger and longer than those driven at the lower grade level. You must also possess a valid state driver's license class B (CDL) with passenger endorsement.

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: The Motor Vehicle Operators will exert light physical effort in reaching, bending, turning, or moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to operate hand and foot controls. They exert moderate physical effort in the frequent handling of objects weighing up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds), and the occasional handling of heavier objects while loading cargo, with the assistance of other workers or weight handling equipment. Moderate physical effort is required in operating, turning, backing, and controlling vehicles which carry heavier loads or larger number of people. Drivers work mostly outside and operate vehicles in all kinds of weather in a controlled traffic environment throughout a Government installation or establishment. Drivers are exposed to fumes and dirt, and to cuts, bruises, and broken bones as a result of accidents while driving or falling objects when loading and unloading. Employee will drive in heavy urban to rural traffic and at highway speeds over complicated road and interchange systems.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C (www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c). 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:

• Drive Safely
• Stress Tolerance
• Vehicle Maintenance
• Vehicle Operation

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.