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-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.

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: Application of a wide range of transportation regulations, methods, and practices to perform a wide variety of interrelated or nonstandard transportation support assignments and resolve a wide range of problems to ensure accurate and timely shipment of freight by rail, truck, air, or water.

Knowledge of automated transportation systems to successfully process in/outbound material orders.

Experience through formal training with required hazardous material classes for transportation personnel with a passing grade for retention in the position.

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:

• Serves as a Transportation Assistant, performing shipment and transportation support functions through various transportation systems.
• Ensures accuracy, completeness, and timely movement of material to CONUS and/or OCONUS customers.
• Serves as point of contact between local packing and shipping functions, freight forwarders, and carriers to assure that routing and final destination shipping instructions are provided.
• Researches transportation systems and other available resources to provide shipping information.
• Prepares daily production reports and forwards copies to appropriate personnel.
• Performs a variety of duties while coordinating shipping instructions and processing high priority and exception requisitions received through various means of communication.
• Makes arrangements with freight forwarders to ship Foreign Military Sales (FMS) freight through the transportation system.