Transportation Assistant

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for a Transportation Assistant, 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-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 specialized experience includes: Planning loads for Sea vans or other containers, which vary in size, while considering weight, consignee, cube compatibility, density, and other factors, exercising care that the freight does not exceed capacities and all the space available.

Obtaining special handling/shipping (life or death shipments, project code, hazardous, signature service) remarks or instructions required and coordinates effective and efficient routing to meet specialized handling/shipping/storage instructions.

Coordinating with various commercial carriers for timely transportation of loaded Sea vans for pickup/delivery to ports.

Researching various sources such as, bills of loading, automated systems, shipment planning worksheets, etc., to identify astray freight and frustrated cargo and prepare preliminary reports. 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 you use 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 4 years of progressively higher education above the high school level from an accredited college or university. C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade level 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:

• Provides the status of shipments to customers, while also verifying and sorting information on a wide range of transportation documents before entering it into the proper computer system.
• Performs a variety of clerical and technical duties in support of transportation functions.
• Reviews the size or weight of items and determines handling, packing, loading or carrier equipment needed.
• Authorizes commodities in shipments for such transit privileges as stop-off, storage-in-transit, substitution of tonnage, or other enroute transportation services.
• Reviews and annotates documentation for deliveries, directs drivers to appropriate location within activity.
• Plans load for Sea vans or other containers, which vary in size, while considering weight, consignee, cube compatibility, density, and other factors.
• Researches consignee address and verifies quantity and location of stock.