Lead Supply Technician

About the role

Serves as a working leader over other employees and concurrently performs identical duties.

Responsibilities

• Distributes and balances the workload among employees in accordance with established workflow and assures timely accomplishment of the assigned workload.
• Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques and makes available written instructions, reference materials and supplies.
• Gives on the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices.
• Performs research and analysis when discrepancies are identified because of physical inventories.
• Assists with investigations when recording imbalances, losses, and/or Supply Discrepancy Reports (SDRs) problems related to lost material.
• Determines the cause of record imbalances through collection, analysis, and evaluation of factors contributing to the inventory adjustment.
• Conducts research, coordinates cost estimates and disposition instructions to appropriate work activities, commands, ICPs and stock readiness personnel.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required

Qualifications

• Education: As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.
• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-07 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Investigating and analyzing inventory and distribution information to determine the cause of record imbalances.
• Conducting physical inventories and adjusting or maintaining stock by utilizing knowledge of supply regulations, policies and procedures.
• Preparing and presenting recommendations and reports regarding conducted analysis and evaluation.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs and other organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Physical Demands

The work requires the incumbent to physically walk the distribution center warehouses to conduct physical searches and to set comfortably in an office environment when investigating inventory data. Occasional situations may require climbing ladders, stooping, bending, and occasionally lifting up to 70lbs with assistance.

Work Environment

The work is performed in both an office and warehouse environment. May be required to wear safety shoes, back support when lifting, and operating equipment in support of material research.

Education

Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application. Graduate education: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

Foreign education: If using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.