Supply Technician.

About the role

Support the non-nuclear material and service requirements related to the NAVSEA Portsmouth Naval Shipyard maintenance availabilities both on and off yard.

Responsibilities

• Perform and provide the results of in-depth research and analysis of supply orders’ validity and compliance with regulations.
• Perform supply transactions such as data entry, report generation and retrieval, and in-depth research.
• Conduct exhaustive research that includes identification of alternate available items, vendors, sources of supply, methods of procurement, or causative analysis of major discrepancies.
• Initiate, prepare, edit, and process numerous standard requisitions to stock or non-standard requisitions through various means of procurement, including Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures and government purchase card.
• Research local and federal regulations to ensure strict compliance in the procurement of hazardous materials.
• Contact customers, supply organizations, transportation units, and others regarding price changes, special handling, material status information, follow-up on urgently required items, and/or expedite delivery of material to work sites.
• Maintain data in automated supply systems to respond to inquiries and process a wide variety of routine and complex supply transactions and adjustments.
• Follow up on unfulfilled orders and process order cancellations when necessary.
• Conduct extensive searches to gather information, research problems encountered, and reconstruct and resolve material problems.
• Track and provide status of actions and/or the availability of lateral support and cross-agency sources of supply to avoid or alleviate work stoppages.
• Ensure configuration control is enforced on all repair part requisitions.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Tour of Duty: 1st shift.
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive.
• 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.
• Bargaining Unit Status: Yes.
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Supply Technician, your resume and supporting documentation must support one of the following:

• 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.
  • For current and former Federal civilian service employees, specialized experience must be at the GS-05 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.
  • For all other applicants, specialized experience must be at the GS-06 grade level or equivalent in the military or private sector.

Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Maintaining data in automated supply systems to respond to inquiries and process a wide variety of routine and complex supply transactions and adjustments.
• Following up on unfulfilled orders and processing order cancellations when necessary.
• Conducting extensive searches to gather information, research problems encountered, and reconstruct and resolve material problems.
• Tracking and providing status of actions and/or the availability of lateral support and cross-agency sources of supply to avoid or alleviate work stoppages.
• Ensuring configuration control is enforced on all repair part requisitions.

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.

Education

If you are using your education to qualify, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated, unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the 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. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. 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 you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, 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.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.

Additional Information

• Drug-Free Workplace Policy: The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing. Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing-designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug-testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability to successfully pass or refusal to conduct the test may result in the tentative or final job offer being withdrawn during the recruitment process or subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
• The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.
• Advisory: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law, and under Federal law, marijuana is illegal.