Mission Support Specialist (Logistics)

Full Job Description

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S.

Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Office of the Director of Field Operations, Mission Support Division, located in Baltimore, MD.

Additional selections may be made to include other organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.

Please see the "Required Documents" section below for additional resume requirements.

Experience GS-11: You qualify for the GS-11 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Maintaining property records, assisting with physical inventories, and helping prepare routine property reports.

Assisting in preparing purchase requests or justifications, reconciling monthly purchase card statements, and maintaining required documentation.

Maintaining vehicle records, and assisting with fleet management program duties such as acquisition, inventory, and disposal.

Entering and tracking facility repair or service requests in a facilities management system, and helping to track environmental, security, or safety inspections and related findings.

Communicating with management, staff, or outside stakeholders to obtain or provide information on logistics, property, fleet, or facilities processes, and resolving routine issues by applying established procedures and guidelines.

Experience GS-12: You qualify for the GS-12 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Managing or leading logistics-related mission support functions such as property, procurement, fleet, and/or facilities management for an organizational unit or office.

Conducting property inventories and facilitating and maintaining property records and reports in accordance with established policies and directives.

Researching suppliers, procuring goods and services, executing purchases, reconciling statements, and maintaining documentation.

Overseeing the fleet card program and fleet management program including ordering, receiving, inventorying, transferring, and excessing fleet vehicles.

Coordinating facility support activities, processing environmental, security, and safety inspections and tracking assessments findings. Education Substitution GS-11: A Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree, three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.M degree from an accredited college or university may substitute for experience required at this level.

Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Check with your school to determine how many credit hours comprise three years of graduate study.

If that information is not available, use 54 semester or 81 quarter hours.

Combining Education and Experience: Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade level, and may be computed by first determining your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining your 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 for that grade level.

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

More information on this qualification standard is located here. There is no education substitution at the GS-12 grade level for this occupation.

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.

You must: Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process; and Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 04/10/2026.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.

If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Background Investigation: U.S.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a federal law enforcement agency that requires all applicants to undergo a thorough background investigation prior to employment in order to promote the agency's core values of vigilance, service to country, and integrity.

During the screening and/or background investigation process, you will be asked questions regarding any felony criminal convictions or current felony charges, the use of illegal drugs (e.g., marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, methamphetamines, ecstasy), and the use of non-prescribed controlled substances including any experimentation, possession, sale, receipt, manufacture, cultivation, production, transfer, shipping, trafficking, or distribution of controlled substances.

For additional information on the preemployment process, review the following link: Applicant Resources | CBP Careers Residency: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP.

Individuals are required to have physically resided in the United States or its protectorates (as declared under international law) for at least three of the last five years.

If you do not meet the residency requirement and you have been physically located in a foreign location for more than two of the last five years, you may request an exception to determine if you are eligible for a residency waiver by meeting one or more of the following conditions: Working for the U.S.

Government as a federal civilian or as a member of the military A dependent who was authorized to accompany a federal civilian or member of the military who was working for the U.S.

government Participation in a study abroad program sponsored by a U.S. affiliated college or university Working as a contractor, intern, consultant or volunteer supporting the U.S.

government Probationary Period: All employees new to the federal government must serve a one year probationary period during the first year of his/her initial permanent federal appointment to determine fitness for continued employment.

Current and former federal employees may be required to serve or complete a probationary period.

Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not CTAP eligible.

View information about CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. You must submit the supporting documents listed under the Required Documents section of this announcement.

To be considered well qualified under CTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. Major Duties:

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO).

The purpose of the position is to plan and carry out a wide variety of mission support duties for the Field Office relative to logistics, procurement, fleet management, and associated functions.

This position starts at a salary of 85,447 (GS-11, Step 1) to 133,142 (GS-12, Step 10).

Major duties for this position include: Providing technical expertise and guidance and performing a variety of services related to logistics, supplies, services and fleet management.

Administering the property management program, including acquisition, receiving, transferring, excessing, reutilization, repairing, and retiring of property.

Performing procurement and supply activities such as identifying inventory deficiencies, procuring supplies, and maintaining documentation as directed by agency policies and directives.

Conducting records management and managing the fleet card program activities, including performing audits, extracting reports, reporting fraud, and processing override requests.

Coordinating and facilitating repairs and ensuring facility repair requests are recorded in the facility management system.

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