Position Overview
Summary This position is for an Engineering Equipment Operator/Gardener located at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center, operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs at Long Beach, CA. Responsibilities Required to know the uses of the different sets of controls or operation of the equipment and attachments and be skilled in handling these controls to perform the work. Basic knowledge of the nature of the soil and features of the terrain to determine the proper approach according to the condition of the surface and subsurface. Must manipulate tractor and attached equipment simultaneously; and make multiple corrections from equipment to tractor; connecting drive shafts and mechanical lines, and operating tractor while manipulating gang mowers or other attachments. Must be skillful in the manipulation of power lift gate controls. May operate boom slope mowers to cut grass on slopes, as applicable, while operating -tractor on level ground such as along roadsides. Operates tractors and other...