Job opening: Transportation Assistant (Freight)
Salary: $48 777 - 63 412 per year
Published at: May 21 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Serves as the Transportation Assistant in a Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) location. The primary purpose of this position is planning, coordinating, and scheduling commissary product, operating supplies and equipment shipments to locations in the Pacific Area (Guam, Japan, and Korea).
Duties
Responsible for analyzing, coordinating, and booking source load container shipments of perishable and semi perishable resale products, operating supplies, and equipment to Central Distribution Centers (CDCs) and commissaries in the Pacific Area.
Analyses data to make carrier selections based on the U.S. Transportation Command's (USTRANSCOM) best value criteria.
Plans and schedules dry and refrigerated containers, break bulk cargo, and (emergency only) airlift cargo requirements from numerous U.S. Distributors and source load suppliers to overseas commissaries and CDC.
Continuously monitors the status of bookings coordinating with carriers, ports, and consignees as appropriate.
Utilizes a desktop computer to prepare correspondence and a variety of daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.
Requirements
- Be a U.S. citizen or national.
- Meet minimum age requirement. See Additional Information.
- Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
- May be subject to successful verification of identity and employment eligibility through E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- May be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as required. New federal employees will be fingerprinted.
- Be able to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility based on the appropriate background investigation.
- May be subject to a probationary/trial period.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- Physical requirements: The work is primarily sedentary. Some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items such as papers and files are required.
Qualifications
You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualifications for series 2102 and additional requirements by the announcement closing date. Your resume (and/or transcript if necessary) must clearly show that you have the qualifications described below. See Required Documents for more information.
Experience: One (1) year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 grade level (or equivalent) by the closing date of this announcement. This experience may have been gained in the private or military sector.
Examples of Specialized experience:
Reviews and analyzes computer generated data
Knowledge of Transportation Automated systems
Establishes and maintains suspense files for shipments awaiting booking releases
Advises appropriate officials and locations of all relevant shipment information
You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
Additional Requirements that must be met by the closing date:
Time-in-grade applies to the promotion of current and former federal employees who hold or have held a permanent GS position in either the competitive or excepted service in the previous 52 weeks, including current employees applying under VEOA. Your application package must contain proof you meet this requirement. See Required Documents for more information.
For GS-6: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-5.
Time after competitive appointment. Current federal civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since being selected for a non-temporary appointment from a competitive examination register of eligibles (an announcement opened to the public) or under a direct hire authority.
As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your level of experience in these competencies:
Automated SystemsCargo Shipment ProcessessMinimum Qualifications GS-06 (One-Grade Interval- No Education Substitution)Transportation Regulations
Overtime: Occasional
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non Exempt
Bargaining Unit Status: Is Covered
Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met.
Work environment: The work is performed in a typical office setting
Telework eligible: Yes - as determined by the agency policy
Remote work eligible: No
Education
You may not use education to qualify for this position.
Contacts
- Address DECA HQ
1300 Eisenhower Street
Fort Gregg-Adams, VA 23801
US
- Name: DeCA HQ Servicing team
- Phone: 614-692-2331
- Email: [email protected]
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