Cemetery Caretaker

Summary This position is located at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.Learn more about this agency This job is open to The public U.S.Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was eliminated and are eligible for priority over other applicants.Clarification from the agency ALL US CITIZENS DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY:This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.201) for this occupation.Duties The Cemetery Caretaker performs jobs requiring mainly manual skills and physical strength.Performs a variety of tasks, such as operating small tractors and riding lawn mowers; transplanting shrubs; digging graves to the proper level; cutting and removing sod, tamping and leveling dirt using hand and power tools; digging and squaring graves using pneumatic equipment, picks and shovels; assisting in lifting and placing caskets on lowering devices; loading and unloading materials; aligning headstones; cleaning and clearing cemetery grounds of debris using power trimmers, chainsaws, axes, shovels, rakes, blowers, vacuums etc.; weeding, mulching, and applying fertilizer; pruning shrubs and low level dead branches; removing snow and ice; cleaning headstones using sprayer and hand brush; and cleaning service and administrative areas.Work schedule:May be required to work Monday through Friday to include occasional weekends.Due to the mission of the National Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days at any given time.Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on that holiday or a Saturday.All staff is required to work Memorial Day each year.Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery.Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.Compressed/Flexible Schedule:Not Available Position Description Title/PD#:Cemetery Caretaker/PD136120 WG-WG-6 The full performance level of this position is WG-06.Relocation Expenses:Not Authorized Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report:Not Required Requirements Conditions of employment You must be a U.S.citizen to apply for this job Subject to a background/suitability investigation Designated and/or random drug testing may be required Pass a pre-employment medical examination.Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 A complete application package; including Resume, Transcripts, etc.is required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan.Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position.USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job.Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying.VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed.Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement.Your resume must be 5MB or less.We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages.We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX).We do not accept PDF portfolio files.We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available.Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.Make your page margins 0.5 inches.Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume.The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.Qualifications To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/20/2026.Candidates must demonstrate the potential to perform the duties involved in landscaping, groundskeeping, or related trades, including the use of hand tools, power tools, and the safe operation of machinery and equipment used in cemetery caretaking practices.Evidence of this potential can be shown through work, training, or relevan