Supervisory Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration is seeking a Supervisory Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution area of Logistics Service in the VA Health Care System. You will supervise the primary inventory point that receives, stores and issues supplies for clinical and administrative service areas of the medical center.

Responsibilities include planning and coordinating work, prioritizing tasks, ensuring timely delivery, maintaining stock, and training staff on local processes

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-06 in the organization.
• Experience planning and coordinating work of other staff.
• Overseeing the receipt and distribution of supplies and materials for a complex medical center.
• Maintaining stock at inventory locations and monitoring expirations.

Responsibilities

• Direct, supervise and manage the primary inventory point.
• Ensure timely delivery of supplies to clinical and administrative areas.
• Train new employees and answer questions on local processes and procedures.
• Resolve problems and provide guidance on logistics activities and improvements.

Skills

Supply chain management

Staff supervision

Inventory control

Logistics coordination

Job description

This position serves as the Supervisory Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution (MSD) areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System. As a Supervisory Supply Technician, you will ensure that supplies and material are distributed to all areas serviced by Logistics by directing, supervising and managing the primary inventory point that receives, stores and issues supplies and materials for both clinical and administrative service areas of the medical center.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/10/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

Specialized Experience

• one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:

• planning and coordinating work to be accomplished by other staff
• establishing priorities for a department
• overseeing the receipt and distribution of supplies and materials for a complex medical center
• maintaining stock at inventory locations
• monitors expiration dates
• ensure supplies are delivered timely
• training new employees and answering questions on local processes and procedures
• ensuring proper storage of supplies and materials
• resolving problems and providing guidance to others on logistics activities
• making recommendations on improvement of work production and quality of work

Note: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hour worked per week.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Conflict Management
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Manages Resources
• Partnering
• Planning and Evaluating

This is a supervisory/managerial position. Applicants selected for supervisory or managerial positions that have not previously completed a supervisory or managerial probationary period must complete a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period. If the selectee was a Federal employee prior to assignment to the supervisory or managerial position, failure to complete the probationary period successfully can result in their return to their former position, or to a position of no lower grade and pay than the one, which they left to accept the supervisory or managerial position.

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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The work requires standing and walking during the entire workday, and frequent reaching, bending and lifting of supply packages (occasionally weighing as much as 50 pounds). Work requires pushing loaded carts of medical supplies (weighing in excess of 100+ pounds). With proper assistance, moves heavier items' weighing over 40 pounds.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.