Materials Handler Supervisor

DLA Careers; Bremerton (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Logistics Agency in Puget Sound, WA seeks a first-line supervisor to lead warehouse operations, oversee receiving, inspecting, counting, storing, issuing, and reporting materials, and ensure safety and efficiency.

Responsibilities include planning work schedules, budgets, training staff, and coordinating with MHE operations; candidates must be a U.S. citizen, able to obtain a Secret clearance, and meet agency requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising teams in a warehouse or distribution setting.
• Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work across multiple shifts.
• Knowledge of warehouse processes, receiving, inspecting, storing, issuing, and reporting materials.

Responsibilities

• Direct supervision of incumbents and planning of organizational work to meet support needs.
• Perform warehouse and inspection tasks and operate material handling equipment.
• Interpret shipping labels, invoices and data sheets associated with materials.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Planning and scheduling

Warehouse operations

MHE operation

Security clearance readiness

Job description

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Duties

• Provides direct supervision to assigned incumbents and plans the work of the organization to ensure the support required in receiving, inspecting, identifying, counting, storing, issuing, and reporting materials.


• Performs warehouse and inspection functions and operates material handling equipment (MHE) or heavy-duty motor vehicles to support warehouse operations.


• Deciphers commercial and Government shipping labels, invoices, data sheets, etc. that accompany all commodities of material relative to receipt, packaging, storing, issuing and shipping functions.


• Participates in the planning of current and future work schedules, budget requests, staffing needs, estimates and resources for projected work.


• Explains work requirement methods and procedures and instructs subordinates in new procedures; providing advice when problems arise.

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


• 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.


• Pre-Employment Physical: Required


• Supervisory Probation: Required


• Completion of Supervisory Certification Program: Required


• Multiple Location/Shift: This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill various shifts located within DLA Distribution Puget Sound, WA.


• Licenses/Certifications: Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid Material Handling Equipment (MHE) license.


• Licenses/Certifications: Must be able to obtain and maintain licenses and/or certifications required by the installation, federal, state, and local laws.


• Licenses/Certifications: Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver’s license/certification to operate government vehicles

Qualifications

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standard for Trades and Labor Occupations. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties at the level for which you are applying. Emphasis is placed on how you gained the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time, and the required ability or potential to perform the job. Applicants who do not meet the screen-out element (SOE) will be eliminated from further competition.

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 Effort

The work involves considerable walking, frequent stooping, bending, standing on hard surfaces for extended periods of time, walking and working in tiring or often uncomfortable positions. The incumbent will be required to push, pull and/or lift materials weighing up to 40 pounds. Most materials handled weight less than 40 pounds; however, some commodities such as metal bar, pipe/tubing, reels of electrical cable, bales of rags, rolls of Herculite, cans of non-skid coating, cases of welding electrodes, etc., often weight considerably more. Heavier items are moved by weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers.

Working Conditions

The incumbent works both indoors and outdoors, in conditions that may be hot, cold, damp, drafty, dusty, dirty or poorly lit. The incumbent is regularly exposed to the possibility of cuts, scrapes, abrasions, falls and other injuries. Work may require wearing protective clothing such as hardhats, steel toes shoes, rubber gloves, masks and rubber aprons. This position requires participation in the Facility Access Program IAW SECNAVINST 5510.30A. The position also requires a Secret security clearance.

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

Information for Veterans

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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