Inventory Management Specialist

DLA Careers; Coronado (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Careers seeks an Inventory Management Specialist to support DoD maintenance programs. The role focuses on ensuring parts availability, coordinating material support, and maintaining stock levels across DLA and non-DLA items.

The incumbent works closely with maintenance customers and internal teams to optimize supply chain performance. Candidates should have specialized federal or equivalent experience, knowledge of procurement policies for emergencies, and strong planning skills to support

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience at GS-07 level or equivalent in federal/private sector.
• Experience with retail supply and inventory management functions, material coordination and AW/PICAP procedures.
• Experience with demand and supply planning for depot maintenance and repair activities.
• Experience with procurement regulations, procedures, and policies for emergency situations and related processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures parts supportability across all sources of supply for established and future workloads.
• Provides material support for projects and services as the material support point of contact for maintenance customers.
• Reviews and analyzes supportability planning documents and drafts availability strategies.
• Addresses material supportability problems that could impact production schedules using established resources.
• Establishes and maintains stock levels (DLA and Non-DLA items).
• Provides long-, mid-, and short-term material support planning for industrial maintenance customers.

Skills

Retail supply

Inventory management

Demand planning

Order fulfillment

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

2 years of graduate education

Job description

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Duties

• Ensures parts supportability across all sources of supply for established and future shop workloads.
• Provides material support for particular projects, work operations, and/or programs and services as the material support Point of Contact for maintenance customers.
• Reviews and analyzes supportability planning documents and drafts/recommends availability strategies.
• Works material supportability problems that could negatively impact productions schedules, using established resources and procedures and takes appropriate action to resolve them.
• Establishes and maintains stock levels (DLA and Non-DLA Managed Items).
• Provides long-range, mid-range, and short-term material support planning for industrial maintenance customers.

Conditions of Employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive
• 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): Non-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.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce position. Must complete DoD certification and other requirements. See Addtl Info.

Qualifications

To qualify for an Inventory Management 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 that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To qualify at the GS-09 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 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:
• Experience with retail supply and inventory management functions, material coordination, awaiting parts (AWP/MICAP) procedures, supporting repair programs and local purchase/local manufacturer processes
• Experience with functions relating to demand and supply planning functions and supportability of parts required for depot maintenance and repair activities
• Experience with Order Fulfillment (including distribution system and ordering applications)
• Experience with procurement regulations, procedures, and policies for emergency situations (e.g. local purchase policies, organic policies, expedite policies), and their relationship to other functions (i.e. requisition processing, contracting award regulations, inventory management processes, etc.) in order to investigate customer concerns and identify/resolve problems
• Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx. If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation. To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess a Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related.
• Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade level GS-09, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-09.

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