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Supply Technician

Defense Logistics Agency

Department of Defense

Fresh

Location

Salary

$41,341 - $66,574

per year

Closes

February 6, 2026

GS-7 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $41,966 - $54,557

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-6. Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement or 1 year graduate study.

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

Job Description

Summary

This Supply Technician role at the Defense Logistics Agency involves managing inventory, processing orders, and ensuring timely delivery of materials for defense operations.

It requires handling customer inquiries, tracking shipments, and resolving supply issues to support production and repairs.

A good fit would be someone with experience in logistics or inventory management, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with automated systems in a fast-paced environment.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-06 (for GS-07 level) in supply management, customer support, or related fields
  • Proficiency in maintaining and updating data in automated supply systems
  • Ability to process requisitions, investigate issues, and coordinate corrective actions
  • Experience providing order status updates, ensuring document accuracy, and expediting materials
  • Skills in researching problems, tracking availability from various sources, and enforcing configuration control
  • Education substitution: At least four years of post-high school education for GS-05, or a combination of education and experience
  • Meet federal eligibility requirements including time-in-grade and minimum qualifications by the application deadline

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for a Supply Technician, your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position.

To qualify at the GS-07 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

To qualify at the GS-06 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

To qualify at the GS-05 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-04 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable Experience includes: GS-05 Maintain customer data and responds to customer inquiries Provide order status information to customers and takes action to ensure timely support Ensure accuracy of a variety of supply documents and expedite material within various supply agencies GS-06 Provide supply support for production, overhaul, repair or other operations for items requiring special handling Investigate, coordinate and processes requisitions requesting corrective actions to ensure proper flow through automated systems Identify alternate sources of supply to meet required need dates GS-07 Maintain data in automated supply systems in order to respond to inquiries and process a wide variety of routine and complex supply transactions and adjustments.

Follow up on unfulfilled orders and processes order cancellations when necessary.

Conduct extensive searches to gather information, research problems encountered, reconstruct and resolve material problems.

Track and provide status of actions and/or the availability of lateral support and cross agency sources of supply to avoid or alleviate work stoppages.

Ensure configuration control is enforced on all repair part requisitions. B. Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation.

To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: GS-05: At least four (4) years of education above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the prerequisite and the course work must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work.

GS-06/GS-07: As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.

C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade levels GS-05, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's 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 an applicant for that grade level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-05.

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. Major Duties:

  • Support the non-nuclear material and service requirements related to the NAVSEA Portsmouth Naval Shipyard maintenance availability both on and off yard.
  • Perform and provide the results of in-depth research and analysis of supply orders’ validity and compliance with regulations.
  • Perform supply transactions such as data entry, report generation and retrieval, and in-depth research.
  • Perform exhaustive research that includes, but is not limited to, identification of alternate available items, vendors, sources of supply, methods of procurement, or causative analysis of major discrepancies.
  • Contact customers, supply organizations, transportation units, and others regarding price changes, special handling, to obtain material status information, follow-up on urgently required items, and/or expedite delivery of material to work sites.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/30/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/31/2026

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