Supervisory Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration•Honolulu, HI

3d•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 incumbent ensures supplies and materials are distributed to all areas served by Logistics by directing, supervising, and managing the primary inventory point that receives, stores, and issues supplies and materials for clinical and administrative service areas of the medical center. The role oversees the receipt, storage, inventory, and distribution of supplies; supervises staff who maintain stock, monitor expiration dates, rotate inventory, conduct inventories, resolve record discrepancies, make deliveries, and prepare specialty carts; and coordinates logistics activities with vendors, managers, supervisors, and clinical and administrative staff. The position is full-time, with a work schedule of 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. It is not a virtual position.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Successful completion of a background/security investigation.
Completion of the online onboarding process and provision of acceptable identification documents.
Maintain a valid state-issued driver's license.
Participation in the Department of Veterans Affairs seasonal influenza vaccination program.
Serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
For current federal employees who held a GS grade during the past 52 weeks: meet the GS-07 time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at GS-06 and submit supporting SF-50 documentation.
One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-06, including planning and coordinating other staff's work; setting departmental priorities; overseeing supply receipt and distribution for a complex medical center; maintaining inventory stock and monitoring expiration dates; ensuring timely delivery and proper storage; training employees and answering process questions; resolving logistics problems and providing guidance; and recommending improvements to productivity and work quality.

Responsibilities

Plan and assign subordinate work, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules based on priorities.
Advise, counsel, and instruct employees on work and administrative matters, including complaints and grievances.
Identify and implement ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production.
Provide guidance and evaluate work involving new, complex, unusual, or unprecedented situations.
Oversee supplies and materials management and distribution through subordinates, including stock maintenance, expiration-date monitoring, stock rotation, critical-supply monitoring, daily inventory, resolution of record discrepancies, timely delivery, and specialty cart preparation.
Oversee receipt of supplies and materials and ensure they are unpacked and properly stored in inventory areas.
Analyze and resolve difficult issues and problems to support effective planning and equitable, reliable decisions.
Conduct market research on new products and ensure they are recorded in the automated inventory system.
Ensure recurring supply items managed through the computerized inventory management system remain available.
Analyze management reports to manage fund control point limitations, identify trends, correct errors, and resolve problems.
Work with vendors and contract-community members, managers, supervisors, and other medical-center staff on Logistics issues.
Communicate with subordinate staff and administrative and clinical staff to coordinate logistics activities and support implementation of policy or procedural changes.
Perform other duties as assigned.