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Lead Supply Management Specialist

Defense Logistics Agency

Department of Defense

Fresh

Location

Salary

$77,964 - $101,359

per year

Type

Closes

February 13, 2026

GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a team of supply experts to manage parts and materials for defense maintenance, ensuring everything is available on time and resolving any delivery issues.

It's a supervisory role in a government agency focused on logistics in Hawaii.

A good fit would be someone with experience in supply chain management, problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead a small team in a fast-paced environment.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-09 level in supply management, including maintaining accountability records for materials and tracing acquisition sources
  • Experience resolving delivery problems, monitoring usage transactions, and tracking re-order actions
  • Ability to verify cost changes for parts and sub-assemblies, and analyze/resolve supply process issues
  • Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years of graduate education in a related field (for education substitution)
  • Combination of graduate education and experience totaling 100% of GS-11 requirements
  • Eligibility for federal service, including time-in-grade and any regulatory requirements
  • Experience leading teams, such as overseeing and coaching expediters in material support

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for a Lead Supply 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 is directly in or related to this position.

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: - Maintaining accountability records for non-expendable materials, tracing acquisition sources and methods.

- Resolving problems associated with timely deliveries and lead times. - Monitoring usage transactions and tracks the timing of re-order actions. - Verifying cost changes for parts and sub-assemblies.

- Analyzing and resolving difficult issues and problems related to supply processes, work methods, supply data management or day-to-day operational procedures. 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 a Ph.D.

or, equivalent doctoral degree or, 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-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-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 a Team Lead, overseeing, coaching, and performing other duties in leading the work of the Expediters.
  • Determines parts supportability across all sources of supply for established and future shop workloads.
  • Monitors cross-agency sources of supply to ensure assets are available for issue when required and executes lateral support transactions to alleviate work-stop inducing unfilled orders.
  • Identifies and recommends use of approved alternative sources of supply.
  • Facilitates the resolution of routine customer issues that arise during fulfillment of requisitions.
  • Serves as the material support point of contact for maintenance customers.
  • Provides material support planning, availability and serviceability for established and future production workloads.
  • Monitors status and progress of work of the junior specialists and reports on expected time of completion of work.
  • Attend shipyard and DLA-WS supply, focus meetings, and joint project coordination meetings.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/4/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/5/2026

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