Inventory Management Specialist

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for an Inventory Management Specialist your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

To qualify at the GS-09 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes: GS-09 Level: Review demand and supply metrics data. Monitor material usage and customer demand patterns.

Prepare material support plans that affect customer mission performance. GS-11 Level: Monitor material usage and customer demand patterns to recommend retail stock levels.

Analyze customer forecasting, requisitioning, usage and/or returns to identify trends. Prepare material support plans that directly affect customer mission performance.

Determine supply actions needed to ensure the availability of essential material. B.

Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation.

To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: GS-09: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B.

or J.D., if related. 3 GS-11: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or, two (3) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade levels GS-09 and GS-11, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-09 and GS-11.

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. Major Duties:

• Serves as the material support point of contact (POC) for maintenance customers.
• Provides long range, mid-range, and short term material support planning, for established and future production workloads.
• Analyze customer forecasting, requisitioning, usage and returns to identify trends.
• Compile and review production data to assure material support and stock control goals are met.
• Recommend alternate strategies to solve material support issues.
• Provide recommendations for improvements to existing supply policies and procedures to ensure accuracy, and expediency of processes.
• Monitor and evaluate material usage and customer demand patterns to recommend retail stock levels.
• Represent DLA Land and Maritime when attending or conducting meetings on activities supported to recommend operational policy and procedures.