Clarification from the agency

Current, permanent Veterans Canteen Service employees, provided 90 days have passed since their last appointment; eligible Veterans, special hiring authorities.

Major Duties include but not limited to the following tasks below:

• Oversees the maintenance of stock at primary and secondary inventory locations for all clinical and administrative services.
• Ensures the monitoring of expiration dates, rotating stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates.
• Oversees the performance of daily inventory of primary and secondary inventory points using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment orders.
• Ensures items are delivered in a timely and accurate manner and in sterile and operational condition.
• Ensures proper handling and safeguarding of unique supplies and special purpose items within the Laboratory, Research and Specialty Medicine and Surgical areas including patient specific items.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Serves as the rating official on evaluations, recommends awards or bonuses for personnel and changes in position classification.
• Assesses the training needs of various groups and individuals and develops, conducts and evaluates the effectiveness of training plans, sessions, and materials.
• Works with vendors, contractors, managers, supervisors and staff throughout the medical center and from other agencies on logistics issues.
• Maintains effective interpersonal relationships with peers, subordinates, inter-service staff and others by dealing with operational priorities of the service and other areas affected by Logistics.
• Maintains close contact with service lines to ensure that critical or urgent requests are processed timely and support both expected and unexpected requirements.
• Provides assistance and educates customers in utilizing local logistics policies and procedures.
• Makes sound recommendations concerning standard commercial items and other associated terminologies for effective procurement actions.
• Ensures items are distributed according to established or ad hoc requirements using the generic inventory package (GIP).
• Utilizes a computerized inventory system to ensure sterility and integrity of the supplies and material and the data integrity of the inventory management system.
• Oversees the computerized inventory management systems and recalls to ensure outdated or otherwise compromised supplies and material are removed from usage area.
• Develops, catalogs data, levels and replenishment needs for new items, plan requirements, while ensuring both quality and quantity measures are met, and to expedite delivery of urgently needed items.
• Completes computer-generated inventory item picking lists and uploads verified data into the inventory management system; monitors and adjusts issue multiples, units of issue, and ability to apply unit conversion factors accurately, and ensures each item has an IMF number.
• Analyzes new policies to determine the extent of their influence upon other policies and procedures and whether such effects have an adverse impact on the overall regulatory and policy objectives of the Logistics program.
• Independently analyzes and resolves difficult issues and problems in order to plan effectively and render equitable and reliable decisions.
• Conducts market research on all new products and must create IMF numbers for those products entered into the automated inventory system.
• Analyzes several reports in order to manage and control the fund control points limitations.
• Analyzes and develops procedures to resolve gaps specificity or conflicts in guidelines consistent with supply program objectives and recommends/implements changes to current processes and procedures to improve the effectiveness of supply distribution.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/26/2026.

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 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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.


You may qualify based on your experience and/or education s described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Responsible for directing, supervising and managing the primary inventory point that receives stores and issues supplies and material. Supervises a team of supply technicians in the distribution area to provide supplies and material to the VA Health Care System and supported catchment area. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short term priorities based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of the assignments. Evaluates work performance of subordinates. Finds ways to improve production or increase the quality of the work directed.

• Customer Service (Clerical/Technical)
• Manages Human Resources
• Reasoning
• Technical Competence
• Technology Application

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify information provided by a candidate (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candidate's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:

• Resume
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action

• Cover Letter
• Resume
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
• Transcript

• Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former Federal employee
• An SF-50 showing 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
• Award 50's do not provide sufficient information and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade.
• Examples of appropriate SF-50's include:
  • Within grade increases at the highest grade held; or
  • Promotions with an effective date more than one year old; or
  • SF-50's at the highest grade held with an effective date more than one year old.

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