Traffic Management Specialist

Full Job Description

This position is in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) integrated health care system, providing care at 1,243 health care facilities, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,063 outpatient clinics, serving more than nine million enrolled Veterans each year.

The position is in the VA Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction (OALC), Office of Procurement, Acquisition, and Logistics (OPAL).

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/13/2026.

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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.

See the Required Document section below for more information regarding the SF-50s needed to verify time-in-grade.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: The Individual Occupational Requirement required for the 2130 Occupational Series is as follows: To be qualified, applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience and meet the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- accounting, business administration, business or commercial law, commerce, economics, engineering, finance, industrial management, statistics, traffic management, transportation, motor mechanics, or other fields related to the position.

OR Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5): Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Managing or participating in managing a transportation or traffic program involving (1) operating a transport or traffic system to move passengers or commodities of an organization when there is accountability for operating costs, (2) operating a transportation system to provide common carrier types of services to shippers, and (3) procuring common or other carriers and other transportation services to move an organization's personnel, freight, and/or other commodities.

Conducting or participating in conducting surveys and studies of the traffic management function, operating methods, procedures, and performance.

Making presentations on traffic matters before Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies.

Performing loss and damage prevention work when this included responsibilities such as policy and procedures formulation and studies of traffic operations and services.

Negotiating with carriers and/or regulatory bodies on questions of rates, transit privileges and charges, special services and charges thereof, and classification of commodities.

Providing advisory service involving commodity analysis from the transportation standpoint.

OR, Certificate Possession of a certificate as Certified Member, American Society of Transportation and Logistics meets the requirements for GS-5.

Persons with such certificates may also qualify for higher grade levels based on their education and/or experience.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Influencing/Negotiating Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week.

Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary within an office environment. Common office equipment is used such as a desktop computer, fax machine, copier, and printers.

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

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies.

To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy.

To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications: Expert knowledge of organization missions, objectives, and procedures; the relationship with and support requirements of other program areas, e.g., acquisition, logistics, and other transportation programs.

The incumbent must exercise a high degree of skill when applying this knowledge to complex or sensitive transportation programs.

Extensive knowledge of Federal government transportation policies and procedures necessary to plan and develop logistics and transportation services and systems to satisfy customer requirements and cost efficient;nformation about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Local Commuting Area: The local commuting area for this position is defined as a radius of 50 miles from Washington, DC.

This includes all locations that fall within a 50 mile driving distance from 810 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC 20420. Major Duties:

Serves as Senior Traffic Management Specialist responsible for a wide variety of complex transportation management functions in support of VA-wide logistics and transportation programs.

Specific assignments include: Serves as the customer's staff expert for issues relating to all freight services, freight bill audits, Puerto Rico Cargo Consolidation, and Off-shore shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, U.S.

Virgin Islands, Philippines and other off-shore and foreign points Provides recommendations for software application and transportation improvements Uses transportation database and spreadsheet software to select, organize and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of transportation and traffic programs Reviews and maintains all rates and charges in several databases and develops diagnostic reports to create MS Excel pivot reports for large amounts of transportation data Applies analytical methods to evaluate complex freight rate tenders to arrive at the lowest cost to the U.S.

Government Develops and recommends transportation policy as it relates to domestic, off-shore, and international shipping Represents VA on various VA and interagency meetings, committees, and conferences; representing agency views and interests at various levels within and outside of the organization Conducts special studies related to household goods, freight and other transportation and traffic programs; Reviews and maintains the VA General Freight Tender of Service for freight and household goods programs Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: May be authorized by supervisor Telework: Available upon management approval.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: PD44177A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required