Supply Technician

Full Job Description

This position serves as Supply Technician (NX) for the Property Management Division within Lifecycle Management of the Logistics Service in a Veteran Affairs Health Care System (VA HCS) and supported catchment area.

As a Supply Technician, you will provide service lines and other hospital facilities with equipment and material.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/20/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

For a GS-5 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-4. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-04 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: providing equipment and material to clinical and/or administrative areas; scanning, bar-coding, receiving, storing, and distributing equipment and related material; utilizing an automated system to maintain equipment records; and answering customer questions regarding non-expandable equipment and materials.

OR, Education (Transcripts Required): Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 4 years above high school.

OR, Combination (Transcripts Required): Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond the second year.

Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.

One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Reviews existing stock and manufacturers' catalogs, manuals and listings to obtain substitute or interchangeable items to supply in lieu of items requisitioned.

Communicates with customers and vendors to obtain information regarding availability and functionality of non-expandable equipment and supplies.

Provides guidance to customers on identification of material through research of original equipment manufacturers part catalog for part numbers, descriptions, and size of parts needed.

Processes applicable catalog update transactions in accordance with current published procedures.

Periodically, reviews assigned manufacturers code and part numbers for continued validity and takes necessary action to update, delete, or dispose of in accordance with published guidelines.

Interacts with clinical and administrative customers to ensure issues and needs are identified and either resolved or escalated to supervisors or Inventory Management Specialists as needed.

Communicates to the lead or supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures, providing information as needed orally or in writing regarding customer or external stakeholder issues, general telephone inquiries and visitor referrals.

Coordinates drop-off of new or transferred equipment and pick up of turn in equipment; scanner pick up and drop off for annual Electronic Inventory Listing (EIL) inventory; and delivery times and area with contractors and vendors with other VA activities, contractors or manufacturers through personal transactions.

Reviews numerous computer output listings in the performance of research and identification of supplies as well as prepares system inquires and interpret the responses.

Receives non-expendable equipment and material into the VA Health Care System and supported catchment area.

Unpacks/uncrates supplies from shipping cartons and properly scans, bar codes, and stores supplies and material.

Stores items in accordance with established guidelines, utilizing a computerized inventory system, to ensure integrity of the supplies and material and the data integrity of the inventory management system.

Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management system.

Delivers equipment in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring equipment and material delivered are in operational condition.

Processes receipt and turn-in transaction to record in the equipment system of record and account for incoming materiel As needed, assists in other functional areas of the Section and performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, Rotating Schedule Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD99832S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Physical Demands: The work requires standing and walking during the entire work day, frequent reaching, bending and lifting of supply packages (occasionally weighing as much as 50 pounds).

Work Environment: Work is preformed throughout the HCS and supported catchment areas, which includes wards, storage buildings, and warehouses that range from a clean environment to hot, cold, drafty, and poorly lighted.

Work requires maintaining a clean environment while preforming tasks that can produce dust or other infectious pollutants while transitioning between environments.

Driving: The delivery of equipment and supplies by motor vehicle may be required.