Supervisory Property Disposal Specialist - Expeditionary Civilian (EC)

DLA Careers; Kaiserslautern; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Careers seeks a Supervisory Property Disposal Specialist to lead end-to-end inventory control and disposition activities for worldwide assets. You will direct staff, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with audit and regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes coordinating with top management, applying efficiency improvements, and maintaining enterprise-wide accountability across multiple DoD systems in an Expeditionary Civilian capacity.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 level.
• Experience in disposing property via reutilization, transfer, donation, sales, abandonment and/or destruction.
• Experience in property disposal management, accountability, property control, and advisory activities.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules, and coordinates daily and long-term operations of the unit.
• Establishes clear performance standards and evaluates employee performance.
• Provides essential staff support to the Site Chief, keeping them informed of milestones and progress.
• Analyzes and manages disposition services operations and resources.
• Advises top management to develop long-range program goals and staffing allocations.
• Applies cost-reduction methods to improve operational efficiency.
• Leads inventory control, discrepancy resolution, and enterprise audit readiness.
• Monitors inventories and records across enterprise systems (DLA EBS, EoD Emall, VLIPS).
• Ensures lifecycle accountability and disposition of worldwide assets.
• Investigates discrepancies and determines adjustments; remediates systemic issues.
• Leads internal control evaluations and annual test plans aligned with federal mandates.
• Coordinates responses to audits and optimizes processes across functions.

Skills

Property disposal processes

Inventory control

Auditing and compliance

Program management

Tools

DLA Enterprise Business System

EoD Emall

VLIPS

Job description

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

This is an Expeditionary Civilian (EC) position and the incumbent will be designated as Emergency Essential (EE) Remain in Place.

Duties

• Plans, schedules, and coordinates the daily and long-term technical and administrative operations of the organizational unit.
• Establishes clear performance standards and evaluates employee performance.
• Provides essential staff support to DLA Disposition Services Site Chief, keeping them fully appraised of current project milestones, emerging issues, and the overall progress of program objectives.
• Analyzes, plans, and affects best utilization and management of Disposition Services business operations and resources.
• Participates as a key advisor with top management and line officials to develop long-range program goals, determine organizational structures, and plan staffing resource allocations.
• Applies advanced work simplification and cost-reduction methodologies on a continuing basis to improve operational efficiency.
• Serves as functional subject matter expert directing end-to-end inventory control operations, discrepancy resolution, and enterprise audit readiness for accountable and non-accountable storage activities
• Monitors, reconciles, and audits physical inventory results and records management data across enterprise automated systems, including DLA Enterprise Business System, EoD Emall, VLIPS, and associated service networks.
• Ensures compliant cost-effective lifecycle accountability and disposition of worldwide excess, surplus, and hazardous material assets
• Researches and resolves inventory discrepancies, investigates physical gains and losses, processes cancellations, and makes authoritative determinations on denied issues while analyzing adjustment trends to remediate systemic deficiencies.
• Leads internal control evaluations and implements annual test plans aligned with OMB circular A-123 and federal statutory mandates
• Coordinates response to internal and external audit inquiries, establishes corrective action plans to resolve deficiencies, and optimizes business processes across functional lines to ensure full synchronization with strategic audit readiness goals

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: (Non-Critical Sensitive with 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
• Supervisory Probation: Required
• Completion of Supervisory Certification Program: Required
• 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.
• Expeditionary Civilian (EC) - Emergency Essential (EE) Remain in Place
• Subject to Overseas Rotation Agreement, Tour Length: Yes, 36 months. (https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025v1230.pdf)
• Financial Disclosure Requirement: Required

Qualifications

To qualify for a Supervisory Property Disposal Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• 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-13 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 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:
• Disposing of property through reutilization, transfer, donation, sales, abandonment and/or destruction or removal via service contract.
• Experience in the business of surplus property disposition to include principles of DEMIL property and requirements, receiving, warehousing, reutilization, merchandising and marketing, and business financial management
• Performing property disposal management, property accountability, property control, and advisory activities.

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.

This is an Expeditionary Civilian (EC) position (designated EE Remain In Place). The incumbent may deploy via temporary reassignment or remain in place during crises to support contingency operations and may participate in readiness exercises. The position cannot be vacated during a national emergency or mobilization without seriously impairing organizational effectiveness and therefore requires screening from military recall. Military Reservists must arrange removal from the reserve component prior to appointment.

EE positions are subject to combat-support deployments via TDY orders and may qualify for additional compensation based on Department of State combat-zone determinations. The incumbent is subject to repeated deployments not to exceed 6 months, with possible 12-18 months dwell time and may redeploy as soon as 90 days after return. The incumbent must sign the EC Statement of Understanding and Agreement, maintaining readiness, equipment, training, and qualifications at all times. Non-deployment duties at the home station support DLA Disposition Services operations.

Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.

If an employee brings a child to an overseas location and that child is entitled to attend a DoD school on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, the DoDEA and the Military Department responsible for providing related services will ensure that the child, if eligible for special education, receives a free appropriate public education, including related services pursuant to DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM 1342.12.

If an employee brings an infant or toddler (up to 3 years of age) to an overseas location, and that infant or toddler is entitled to attend the DoDEA on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, then the Military Department responsible for early intervention services (EIS) will provide the infant or toddler with the required EIS in accordance with the eligibility criteria consistent with DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM 1342.12.

Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

• As required by 5 C.F.R. 302.106, DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R. 1194).

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to: http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

For an explanation of the overseas entitlements, please review the information in the following link: http://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/overseas.aspx

U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement. Ordinarily Resident is defined as a U.S. citizen who is locally resident; and, has legal, permanent resident status within the host country; and, is subject to host country employment and tax laws.

Information for Veterans

is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment. You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal

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