Clarification from the agency

"Federal employee" means current and former permanent competitive service employees and Special authorities (Interchange Agreement agency employees) may apply. Veterans eligibilities include 30% or more Disabled Vet, Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA). Military Spouse Preference for Overseas Employment may also apply.

• Plans, coordinates and controls shipment of material and equipment.
• Prepares shipment documentation for material and equipment shipped to include hazardous materials.
• Provides advice and assistance to customers concerning all aspects and phases of the DLA Distribution Depot transportation and distribution functions.
• Provides status, resolves problems, prepares reports, and traces shipments upon requests.
• Provides traffic management support through selection, approval, procurement, and use of safe and effective services carriers at the least cost to the government.
• Determines the most efficient economical rates and routes to destination involving domestic inbound and export shipments, originating at any point worldwide.
• Is responsible for the classification, rating, routing, and movement of a wide range of commodities, which includes hazardous materials.
• Plans shipping dates, material pick up and loading times of equipment and material to be shipped from DLA Distribution Depot to other government activities, both overseas and CONUS.
• Performs the day-to-day functions of the verification and payment of invoices utilizing various automated systems.
• Computes and verifies transportation costs and contacts carriers for rates when required.
• Determines economical routing based on technical review of guides and tariffs.
• Reviews automated documentation for all types of shipments taking appropriate action to correct any invalid, void, or missing information.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive, Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• Physical: Required
• This announcement may be used to fill future vacancies for various shifts located anywhere within DLA Distribution Yokosuka, Japan.
• Subject to Overseas Rotation Agreement: Yes
• Overseas Tour Length: 36 Months (http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025v1230.pdf)
• You will be a Mission Essential employee. This requires you to work during an emergency to ensure continuation of essential functions. You may be required to work at the designated duty location, a telework site, or an alternate location/facility.

Qualifications

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-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. 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:

• Determines the most efficient economical rates and routes to final destination involving domestic inbound and export shipments
• Classifies, rates, routes, and moves a wide range of commodities including hazardous material

B. Education Substitution: 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.

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.

Physical Demands
Works in both office settings and material storage and movement areas involving moderate risks and/or discomforts requiring special safety precautions. Selects, packs and prepares/stages items for shipment. Operates a forklift and works in areas where hazardous materials are stored. The work requires lifting of relatively heavy objects of approximately 40 pounds and occasionally up to 70 pounds with assistance and the use of MHE for heavier/larger objects

Work Environment
Much of the work is done in an office setting. However, also works in heated and non-heated warehouses, cold storage areas, receiving & shipping docks, waterfront production areas, on barges, and under adverse weather conditions. They work in areas where certain potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present. Such agents may include, but are not limited to, fumes, dust noise, heat and chemicals. To ensure employee safety and health, the PNSY maintains personal protection programs consistent with applicable laws and regulations. These programs may include engineering controls, training, work procedures, use of personal protective equipment and medical surveillance programs. As part of the surveillance programs, may be required to take medical examinations to determine their qualification for duties involving working around/with these agents.

How you will be evaluated

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

The assessments for this job will measure the following Competencies:

• Transportation regulations, policies, and procedures
• Plan and arrange shipments
• Ethical Behavior

Once the application process is complete, a review of your resume and supporting documentation may be completed and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. The rating you receive is based on your responses to the assessment questionnaire. The score is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the competencies required for this position. If your resume and/or supporting documentation is reviewed and a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating.

To apply for this position you must provide a complete Application Package. Each Application Package MUST include:

1. Your Resume: IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you will be removed from consideration for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documentation should provide the minimum qualifications and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted will be reviewed for qualifications and referred for selection consideration, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.
2. Applicable documents to support the eligibility(s) for which you are applying. Please review the following link for a listing of the additional documents you will need to provide: Supporting Documents.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): If you are an eligible ICTAP applicant you may apply for special selection over other candidates for this position. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at a score of 85 or higher for this position. ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a "Notice of Personnel Action" (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.

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