Materials Examiners and Identifier
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Materials Handler Supervisor
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Manhattan, Kansas
Salary
$35.41 - $41.35
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team that manages the receiving, shipping, and distribution of biological materials, animals, and supplies at a government facility focused on animal and plant health.
The role requires overseeing daily operations, ensuring safe handling of sensitive items like infectious agents, and coordinating paperwork for domestic and international shipments.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on experience in logistics supervision, especially in regulated environments like labs or warehouses, who is detail-oriented and comfortable with both manual and computer-based inventory systems.
Key Requirements
- Experience supervising teams in receiving, shipping, and distribution operations
- Knowledge of handling and shipping select agents, infectious materials, and dangerous goods
- Ability to coordinate domestic and international shipping documentation, including permits and licenses
- Proficiency in inventory management using manual and computerized processes
- Training in planning and coordinating distribution center operations and contracts
- Relevant paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, demonstrating required skills
Full Job Description
This position serves as the supervisor of the Transshipping section which is located in the Laboratory Support Services onsite at National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) and the USDA, NBAF External Distribution Center located off site in Manhattan, Kansas.
To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume.
For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience overseeing handling and shipping select agents your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
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 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:
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Supervises the day-to-day operations of both the Transshipping/External Distribution Center receiving and shipping, animal receiving operations, and biological materials receipt and shipping.
- Oversees domestic and international shipping for select agents, infectious and dangerous goods, sample collection kits, equipment, reagents, etc.
- Coordinates and processes shipping documents ensuring required paperwork accompanies all shipments such as permits, licenses, and import certifies.
- Issues inventory, compressed gas, supplies and materials, uses both manual and/or computerized processes
- Plans and coordinates the Unit’s Distribution Center operations, material handler staff, section-specific contracts, and mail services.
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