Supervisory Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration • Albuquerque, NM

20d • Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as the Supervisory Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution areas of Logistics Service within a VA Health Care System. The role directs, supervises, and manages the primary inventory point that receives, stores, and issues supplies and materials for clinical and administrative service areas of the medical center. The supervisor ensures supplies and materials are distributed throughout the areas served by Logistics.

The position oversees the receipt, storage, inventory management, and distribution of supplies, including monitoring expiration dates and rotating stock, tracking critical supplies, performing daily inventory, resolving record discrepancies, making timely deliveries, and preparing specialty carts. It also involves market research and updating the automated inventory system, reviewing management reports and fund-control limitations, resolving logistics issues, and coordinating with vendors, contract community members, managers, supervisors, and medical-center staff.

The schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This is not a virtual position. The work requires standing and walking throughout the workday, frequent reaching, bending, and lifting supply packages occasionally weighing up to 50 pounds, and pushing loaded medical-supply carts weighing over 100 pounds. Heavier items over 40 pounds are moved with proper assistance.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Must be able to complete a background/security investigation and the online onboarding process.
• Seasonal influenza vaccination is required for Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• For current or former federal employees subject to time-in-grade rules: 52 weeks at GS-05 is required for a GS-07 position, with supporting SF-50 documentation.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-05 is required. Examples include planning and coordinating staff work, setting priorities, overseeing supply receipt and distribution at a complex medical center, maintaining inventory stock, monitoring expiration dates, ensuring timely delivery and proper storage, training employees, resolving logistics problems, and recommending improvements to production and work quality.
• Competencies include Customer Service (Clerical/Technical), Manages Human Resources, Reasoning, Technical Competence, and Technology Application.
• Must meet the physical requirements of standing and walking throughout the workday; frequent reaching, bending, and lifting; pushing loaded carts; and moving heavier items with proper assistance.
• No educational substitution is available at this grade level.

Responsibilities

• Plan and assign subordinate work, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare completion schedules.
• Advise, counsel, and instruct employees on work and administrative matters, including complaints and grievances.
• Identify and implement ways to reduce or eliminate significant production bottlenecks and barriers.
• Provide guidance and evaluate work involving new, complex, unusual, or precedent-free situations.
• Oversee the management and distribution of medical-center supplies and materials through subordinate staff.
• Ensure stock is maintained, expiration dates are monitored, stock is rotated, and critical supplies are tracked.
• Oversee daily inventory, resolution of record discrepancies, item distribution, timely deliveries, and specialty cart preparation.
• Oversee receipt, unpacking, and proper storage of supplies and materials.
• Analyze and resolve difficult issues and problems to support effective planning and equitable, reliable decisions.
• Conduct market research on new products and ensure products are recorded in the automated inventory system.
• Ensure recurring supply items are available through the computerized inventory management system.
• Analyze management reports to manage fund-control-point limitations, identify trends, correct errors, and resolve problems.
• Work with vendors, contractors, managers, supervisors, and medical-center staff on Logistics issues.
• Communicate and coordinate with subordinate, administrative, and clinical staff regarding logistics activities and policy or procedural changes.
• Train new employees and answer questions on local processes and procedures, as relevant to the stated specialized-experience examples.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to eligible employees and their families.
• Eligible selected applicants may request prior work or military service credit toward annual leave accrual, subject to approval and not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed