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Commissary Contractor Monitor

Defense Commissary Agency

Department of Defense

Fresh

Salary

$21.76 - $28.29

per hour

Type

Closes

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GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves monitoring contractors who handle tasks like stocking shelves, cleaning, and managing inventory in a military grocery store to ensure everything runs smoothly and meets quality standards.

Workers perform inspections, check safety rules, and assist in various store departments as needed.

It's a good fit for someone with retail or office experience who pays close attention to details and enjoys hands-on work in a structured environment.

Key Requirements

  • One year of general experience in clerical, office, or similar work showing ability to learn job skills
  • One year of specialized experience in retail procurement, food merchandising, and store management equivalent to GS-5 level
  • Knowledge of retail food store operations, including stocking, inventory, and vendor coordination
  • Ability to conduct quality assurance inspections and monitor contractor performance for services like custodial, receiving, and storage
  • Familiarity with safety, sanitation, security, and housekeeping standards in a retail setting
  • Education option: One year of graduate study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics, or related field; or superior academic achievement; or combination of experience and education

Full Job Description

Commissary Contractor Monitor work position is to conduct quality assurance inspections and contract surveillance duties of specified commissary stocking, order-writing, custodial, receiving, holding and/or other contracted services performed in a commissary.

Specific assignments vary by individual store and store management requirements. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualifications for series 1101 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. You can use experience, education, or a combination of the two to qualify.

Experience: One (1) year of progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates the ability to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of this position (general experience).

You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualifications for series 1101 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.

You can use experience, education, superior academic achievement, or a combination of experience and education to qualify.

Experience: One (1) year of demonstrated knowledge of retail procurement and distribution methods; principles, procedures, and techniques of retail food merchandising and retail food store management; and developments in commercial retail food store items, equipment, and practices (specialized experience) equivalent to at least the GS-5 grade level.

Experience can be under other Federal service pay systems, private sector, or military. Examples of qualifying experience include: Monitors contractor performance to identify problem areas.

Maintains a monthly inspection schedule and surveillance activity checklist to monitor contractor performance.

Monitors store contractor performance to include store stocking, custodial, receiving, storage and handling other service contracts Performs shelf-stocking and inventory.

Ensures safety, sanitation, security and housekeeping rules are followed. Performs in various departments to include meat, produce, grocery, etc. Operates electronic checkout system.

Advises vendor salesperson of adjustments in daily or weekly orders. Receives, screens, reviews and/or verifies order documents for accuracy.

OR Education: One (1) full year of graduate level education with major study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or other fields related to the position; or superior academic achievement.

OR Combination of experience and education.

To calculate the combination, divide your total months of experience by 12, then divide your graduate level semester hours by the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study or 18 and add the two percentages.

If the total is 100%, you meet the minimum qualifications through a combination of experience and education.

You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualifications for series 1101 and additional requirements by the announcement closing date.

Your resume must clearly show that you have one (1) year of experience conducting job analysis, posting vacancies in an automated system, advising management on a variety of recruitment authorities and techniques, evaluating applicants for eligibility and qualifications, creating and issuing referral certificates, making job offers and onboarding personnel, and preparing and auditing personnel actions for accuracy and regulatory compliance (specialized experience) equivalent to at least GS-11.

Experience can be under other Federal service pay systems, private sector, or military.

You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) basic requirement and qualifications for series 1101 and additional requirements by the announcement closing date.

Basic Requirement: (1) A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major in any field, or (2) At least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.

AND Qualifications: Your resume must clearly show that you have one (1) year of experience applying Federal laws, regulations, policies, procedures and general business practices to buy and sell goods and services in support of the mission, and using innovative techniques to develop contractual arrangements (specialized experience) equivalent to at least GS-11.

Experience can be under other Federal service pay systems, private sector, or military. Physical requirements: (1) Stand, stoop, kneel, bend and climb for prolonged periods.

(2) Lift, push, pull, carry, and handle items weighing up to 40 pounds independently and occasionally over 40 pounds with assistance.

You will attest to your ability to perform these physical requirements in the Questionnaire.

As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your level of experience in the position's competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics).

If you meet the minimum qualifications of this position, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire Assessment.

This additional online assessment is required and must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement unless you have requested Reasonable Accommodation for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments.

Your results will be kept on record for one year when applying for future jobs that require the same USA Hire Competency Based Assessments.

Clerical and Administrative Communication Grocery Operations Minimum Qualifications GS-06 (One-Grade Interval- No Education Substitution) Quality Assurance Practices Overtime: Occasional Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Bargaining Unit Status: Covered Obligated Position: No Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No.

DoD criteria not met. Telework eligible: No Remote work eligible: No Major Duties:

Major Duties: Conducts quality assurance inspections and contractor surveillance.

Provides comments and recommendations for additions, deletions, or changes to contractor services to ensure compliance with DeCA directives.

Approves or rejects contractor's work schedule and checks work for quality and timeliness.

Maintains the store's space allocations program by such duties as designating to the contractor proper item shelf locations when shelf tags are missing or otherwise not identifiable.

Advises commissary or contracted order writers. Acts as the commissary manager's representative during the night time hours to ensure government property is secure.

This position offers promotion potential to a higher grade. To prepare you for the higher grade, work assignments will be progressively more complex.

After meeting all qualifications and requirements for the next grade level and with your supervisor's recommendation, you may be promoted without further competition.

However, promotion is neither guaranteed nor automatic. Read the entire job announcement. Focus on the following sections to understand whether or not you qualify for the position.

This critical information is found under: Duties and Qualifications How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable) How You Will be Evaluated Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the Qualifications section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire.

We do not assume you have the necessary experience to successfully perform in this job regardless of your employment history or academic career.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/17/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/18/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DECA-26-12890503-DE