General Supply Specialist (Ammunition)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at the Logistics Readiness Center (LRC), U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

Located in the scenic Hudson River valley, only 50 miles from New York City, the U.S.

Military Academy at West Point is a four-year academic institution, a nationally-renowned historic site, and the oldest continuously occupied military post in America.

The undergraduates, known as cadets, are commissioned as officers in the US Army upon graduation.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and/or education requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) Performing general supply work related to an organization's ammunition supply operations; (2) Receiving, storing, issuing, and/or shipping ammunition, explosives, or related chemical agents; (3) Conducting and/or maintaining inventory; and (4) Utilizing automated supply systems and/or databases to accomplish assignments.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the Federal service (GS-09). - OR - Education: Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position, such as: Supply, Logistics, Business Management or another related field.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) - OR - Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

Major Duties:

• Serve as a Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) Ammunition Accountable Property Officer, and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR).
• Ensure the stock record account and all associated conventional ammunition, missiles, and large rockets (including related components, packaging, and residue material) are properly managed and accounted for.
• Provide operational expertise and oversight of all aspects of the associated ammunition operation to include manual and automated stock record/accounting procedures.
• Verify accurate posting and maintain oversight of ammunition stock record account of munitions stock records, storage, issuing, disposal of suspended munitions, disposal of residue, retrograde of munitions and/or components.
• Review, interpret and implement regulations and directives pertinent to the accountability and control of ammunition stockage.
• Monitor ASP contractor to ensure forecasted training ammunition, munitions, and operational loads are requisitioned, received, stored, issued, retrograded, and residue processed.
• Request and coordinate with ASP contractor for required and special inventories of stocks; review and provide technical guidance to contractor in stock control activity administrative procedures to ensure accuracy/integrity of accountable records.
• Investigate, verify, and report any loss, theft or recovery of items and initiate Reports of Survey.
• Monitor and evaluate adequacy of contractor performance in ASP operations including stock control, accountability, maintenance, operation of automated ammunition supply systems.
• Review and evaluate contractor corrective and preventative actions for Quality Assurance. Stop unsafe acts and document findings.
• Participate in installation emergency operations exercises.