This position is located in the Ladson, South Carolina Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP). Incumbent serves as a Supply Technician and performs property accountability duties, receiving activities, and inventory management related duties.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Performs property accountability duties or the more routine phases of property management including inventory of non-expendable property, reporting excess property, etc. Assists with limited segments of management studies on property utilization, such as studies of special supply levels for equipment or excess property. Makes informal recommendations based on data developed. Receives and stores stock; uses a broad knowledge of warehouse plans independently loads and unloads shipments from trucks and other material conveyances, using fork lifts and manual and mechanized pallet jacks. Performs routine operator maintenance and may be required to handle hazardous or sensitive materials. Organizes, arranges, assembles, and delivers stock in storage areas. Uses automated equipment such as optical readers, scanners, and computer keyboards to load computerized inventory data, access inventory information, and fill item requisitions. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, (8-hour shifts, hours fluctuate between 6:00am - 12 midnight) or at the discretion of the supervisor and the needs of the agency. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD02000A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/29/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Thorough knowledge of governing supply regulations, policies, procedures and instructions applicable to the specific assignment. Experience conducting extensive and exhaustive searches for required information; reconstruct records for complex supply transactions; and/or provide supply operations support for activities specialized or unique supplies, equipment, and parts such as special purpose laboratory or test equipment, prototypes of technical equipment, parts, and equipment requiring unusual degrees of protection in shipment and storage, or others that are unique to the organization's mission or are seldom handles. Demonstrated ability to perform routine aspects of supply specialist work based on practical knowledge of standard procedures, where assignment include individual case problems related to a limited segment in one of the major areas of supply management (e.g., cataloging, inventory management, excess property, property utilization or storage management). 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. 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work requires long periods of standing, walking, stooping, bending, and typically lifting heavy items under 50 pounds. The employee uses lifting equipment when occasionally moving items above 50 pounds. A great amount of walking is required to conduct physical on-site inventories of EIL equipment and/or to trace misplaced items in stock areas. Lifting is required when receipting in equipment and preparing equipment for sales. Working Environment: Some of the work is performed in an office selling where the employee has access to a personal computer and computerized and manual records. However, there are frequent trip to warehouse areas on the production floor in the warehouse to conduct searches. While working in a warehouse setting, the employee is subject to heat, cold, humidity, dust, and moving equipment. Incumbent will occasionally be required to be outdoors when the need to transfer equipment from the mall building to the storage building occurs. All duties are subject to follow security, privacy, and safety procedures and regulations. The employee is required to wear safety equipment only when accomplishing certain task. Must have safety shoes when using a pallet jack. Must wear safety gloves when opening boxes. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no education substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy - Charleston 3725 Rivers Ave Suite 2 North Charleston, SC 29405 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]