Supply Technician Lead
UICGS / Bowhead Family of Companies · Bremerton, WA · 2 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
About the role
Serves as a team leader, technical expert, and primary oversight authority for a localized team of supply personnel. Ensures the logistics team seamlessly handles critical, high-value components, assemblies, and specialized equipment.
Responsibilities
- Assign, distribute, and balance daily workloads among supply technicians.
- Monitor task backlogs, amend priorities based on urgent weapon assembly schedules, and instruct the team on specialized warehouse procedures.
- Perform final reviews on the team's data entries, inventory ledgers, and transaction loops.
- Ensure all logistics activities strictly conform to Naval supply mandates and Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) directives.
- Conduct exhaustive database searches and reconstruct heavily convoluted data records to resolve persistent inventory discrepancies, cataloging drifts, or system-wide supply shortfalls.
- Train team members on legacy and modern specialized inventory systems (such as Navy ERP and automated tracking portals).
- Instruct staff on the proper use of barcode scanning equipment and high-priority part expediting workflows.
- Reconstruct complex supply transactions, investigate inventory discrepancies, and update Naval material databases (such as ERP and local tracking programs) to maintain data integrity.
- Maintain a 100% accountability of all incoming materials.
- Monitor performance metrics and compile comprehensive operational readouts for the Logistics Division Head.
- Recommend formal corrective actions or system adjustments to optimize local warehouse workflows.
- Process high-priority supply requisitions, track critical material shortages, and expedite orders to support time-sensitive weapon assembly and training schedules.
- Conduct detailed stock counts, manage optimal storage allocations for specialized components, and coordinate the issuance and replenishment of unique line items.
- Unpack, verify, bar-code, and scan incoming specialized equipment to match rigid procurement listings before staging them for industrial use.
- Interface directly with weapon test divisions, range controls, and vendor representatives to advise on local supply procedures and status tracking metrics.
- Maintain a 95% accountability of all CBR Gear.
- All inventories discrepancies must be reported to designated Technical Assistant (TA) and COR.
Requirements
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED).
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or Operations Management preferred.
- Deep practical knowledge of Department of the Navy logistics infrastructure, tracking codes, and federal supply classifications.
- Proven capability to direct personnel, evaluate workflow pipelines, resolve operational bottleneck friction, and maintain team discipline.
- Certainty utilizing military database architectures to track high-value parts, audit material chains of custody, and adjust stocking criteria.
- 1-2 years of experience in a formal leadership, supervisory, or team-lead capacity.
- Navy database systems, inventory reconciliation modules, and data analysis software to oversee complex technical data pipelines.
Skills
- Written and oral communications abilities commensurate with this management role.
- Intermediate to advanced level skills in Microsoft Office software suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
- Ability to understand, speak, read, and write the English language.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees, Government Representative, and outside contacts.
- Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment with the ability to work alone or as part of a team.
- Valid driver’s license in the state of employment with an acceptable driving record.
Benefits
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged period amounts of time.
- Must be able to twist, bend, and squat periodically.
- High noise levels are common as is the potential exposure to heat/cold, noise, dusts, mist, and/or fumes.
Pay
TBD
Schedule
TBD