Supply Technician

Full Job Description

The incumbent serves as the Supply Technician located within the Prosthetic & Sensory Aids Service (PSAS), at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS), Tucson, Arizona.

The incumbent collaborates in a team-oriented, customer-driven, professional environment to develop new models of care that emphasize on prevention, improved access; education and empowering Veterans and their families; enhancing the customer experience.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/27/2026.

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-05 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-04 and for a GS-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05.

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: GS-05: 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: Placing orders, receiving orders, monitoring stock, and rotating stock.

OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have four years of education above high school.

This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school.

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

You must have an combination of specialized experience and 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..

GS-06: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Placing orders, receiving orders, monitoring stock, and rotating stock.

OR, Education: There is no education substitute for experience at the GS-06 level.

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:

MAJOR DUTIES INCLUDE: Performs inventory management related duties including elements of item management, materiel coordination, and inventory control.

Maintains inventory for items from readily available sources of supply, or items which reflect relatively stable patterns of demand. Utilize barcode equipment to scan and track inventory.

Coordinates and/or monitors all phases of the inventory process including participating in the establishment and control of inventory standards and eliminating adverse conditions affecting the inventory.

Identify requirements and requisition, issue, or distribute office and administrative supplies, form, publications, or other printed materials.

Maintains all due-in records and processes receipt documents to properly add assets to expandable inventory.

Regularly conducts physical inventories (to include at least one wall to wall inventory count per quarter) in all rooms/locations (to include inventory located in the CBOCs & vendors) and monitors, manages, adjusts, maintains inventory and properly accounts for supplies.

Incumbent maintains compliance with established National contracts, Federal Supply Schedules and VISN contracts and/or Blanket Purchase Agreements.

Maintain a clean, neat and dry stock room assuring that items are safely stored and apply the first in first out (FIFO) concept.

Using the Inventory Program, maintain local stock, reorder when stocks are lower at a specified reorder point; prepare standard reports such as variances between actual and estimated costs; and perform supply transactions such as receipt, shipment, storage, control, issue, and/or adjustment functions.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.

Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 0800-1630 Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD11809O