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Distribution Process Worker Leader

Defense Logistics Agency

Department of Defense

Recent

Salary

$23.84 - $27.83

per hour

Closes

January 20, 2026

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a small team of workers in a warehouse setting to handle tasks like receiving shipments, packing items, and managing inventory for the Defense Logistics Agency.

It requires hands-on physical work in a demanding environment, including lifting and operating equipment.

A good fit would be someone with warehouse experience who can guide others, stay organized under pressure, and handle repetitive physical tasks safely.

Key Requirements

  • Ability to lead and supervise 3 or more workers in trades and labor tasks
  • Experience in stock selection, stowing, inventory management, and material handling
  • Proficiency in operating Material Handling Equipment (MHE)
  • Skills in packing, repacking, and examining materials using various methods
  • Physical capability to lift up to 40 pounds frequently and perform demanding tasks like standing, bending, and climbing
  • Knowledge of warehouse procedures for receiving, unloading, and processing shipments
  • Familiarity with safety protocols and working in uncomfortable conditions (hot, cold, noisy environments)

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations.

Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying.

Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job.

Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition.

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. Physical Effort Stands on hard surfaces for extended periods of time.

Duties require constant standing, turning/twisting, reaching forward, grasping, handling, eye/hand coordination; and seeing.

Duties require frequent walking, bending (at waist), driving MHE, climbing stairs and steps, reaching overhead, fingering and finger dexterity, and foot/hand/eye coordination.

Duties require occasional sitting, kneeling, crouching, crawling, climbing ladders, and throwing items weighing up to 5 pounds for up to 2 feet.

These duties are performed in tiring and uncomfortable positions.

Frequently lifts items from floor height which weigh up to 40 pounds from an approximate starting height of 6 inches to an approximate ending height of 3 feet.

Frequently lifts items weighing up to 40 pounds from waist level from a starting height of about 2 feet to an ending height of about 30 inches.

Occasionally it lifts items weighing up to 40 pounds from shoulder level from a starting height of about 4 feet to an ending height of about 6 feet.

Frequently carry items weighing up to 40 pounds for 6 to 10 feet. Occasionally pushes and/or pulls items weighing up to 80-foot pounds for approximately 3 feet.

Uses weight handling equipment or receives assistance from other workers for items heavier than 40 pounds.

Working Conditions Works outside and inside areas that are hot, damp, cold, drafty, and poorly lit.

Subject to cuts, scrapes, bruises, muscle strain, noise, abrasions, falls, and injury from falling stock. Wear protective clothing such as steel-toed shoes, respirators, safety glasses and earplugs.

Mechanized roller conveyors are often present and are a normal part of material routing and distribution. Major Duties:

  • Leads three or more workers to accomplish trades and labor work and passes instructions on to other workers.
  • Ensures that all workers have enough work.
  • Checks work in progress and completed work for compliance and answers workers questions regarding procedures, policies, written instructions and directions.
  • Provides information to supervisor on status and progress of work.
  • The non-lead duties include stock selection, stow, location survey, physical inventory, material handling, material examining and identifying, packing, and operating Material Handling Equipment {MHE).
  • Receives, unloads and processes incoming shipments.
  • Checks accompanying documentation against container or packing labels and follows established procedures in reporting over, short, misdirected, or damaged materials.
  • Packs and/or repacks a variety of items utilizing a wide variety of standard packing materials, methods and techniques to determine appropriate method of packing based on the type of commodity/item to be packed.
  • Assembles items for shipment in the loading area according to information provided on the shipping requests and checks the condition of shipping containers prior to loading and ensures shipments are properly loaded onto the right conveyances.
  • Counts types and quantities of items during inventories, and maintains tally listings during the count.
  • Recounts or searches other storage locations to assist in determining the basis for over, short, or misplaced items.
  • Operates one or more types of material handling equipment such as standard type forklift with a lifting capacity of up to 15,000 pounds, warehouse tractor, or general-purpose vehicle.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/2/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/3/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DLADist-26-12858833-MP