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Posted: February 9, 2026 (11 days ago)

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Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

Recent

Salary

$44,887 - $58,354

per year

Closes

February 18, 2026More VA jobs →

GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and distributing medical supplies like sterile items, instruments, and equipment to hospital wards, clinics, and operating rooms in a VA health care system.

You'll handle tasks such as pulling inventory, tracking stock levels, using bar codes for checks, and ensuring supplies are delivered on time while monitoring expiration dates.

It's a good fit for someone with experience in warehouse or inventory work, especially in healthcare or government settings, who is organized and enjoys hands-on customer service.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-4 level (or equivalent) in providing equipment/materials to clinical/administrative areas, including scanning, bar-coding, receiving, storing, and distributing
  • Experience using automated systems to maintain equipment records and answering customer questions about supplies
  • For current federal employees: 52 weeks of time-in-grade at GS-3 or higher, proven by SF-50 form
  • Education alternative: 4 years above high school from an accredited institution (transcripts required)
  • Combination option: Equivalent mix of specialized experience and 2+ years of post-high school education (transcripts required)
  • Ability to perform daily inventory, monitor expiration dates, rotate stock, and resolve inventory discrepancies
  • Strong communication skills to interact with clinical/administrative customers and report concerns to supervisors

Full Job Description

This position serves as Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution (MSD) areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System.

As a Supply Technician, you will provide wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with supplies and material including, but not limited to, sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets and equipment.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/18/2026.You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: 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-3. 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.

Specialized Experience: You must have one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level in the Federal service that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of this Supply Technician position.

Specialized experience 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: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience.

To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed 4 years of education above high school in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite.

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

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

You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond high school education as described above that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of this position.

For the GS-05, only education in excess of 60 semester hours (2 years) is creditable. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED).

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 and responsibilities include: Pulls stock inventory and material for delivery; replenishes stock inventory; interacts with clinical and administrative customers and maintains records on stock levels; Communicates to the Lead or Supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures.

Provides information to customers regarding medical supplies; Monitors expiration dates, rotates stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates; Monitors and controls critical supplies; Performs daily inventory using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment; Resolves differences between records and physical count of stock; Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems; Delivers supplies in a timely manner and ensures supplies and material delivered are in sterile and operational condition; Completes specialty cart preparation; Cleans assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles; and Receives supplies and material into the medical center's catchment area.

Driver's License Requirement: Incumbent must possess a current, valid state-issued driver's license for this position. (Please do not submit a copy of your license with your application package.

You will be required to show your valid driver's license at the time of your interview.) Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD99834A

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/9/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/10/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CBSZ-12876889-26-VW