Logistics Management Specialist

Summary

This position serves as a Logistics Management Specialist responsible for directing and implementing Supply Chain Management policies, procedures, and planning across multiple activities and geographically separated areas. The position oversees lower-graded staff and collaborates with VA leadership and supported activities to develop strategies that support the VA Health Care System and its catchment area.

Duties

30 Day Hiring Model: The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a streamlined 30-Day Hiring Model designed to accelerate hiring while maintaining the highest standards of merit-based selection. This improved process reduces traditional hiring timelines by integrating early coordination, faster assessments, and efficient pre-employment actions. Applicants can expect a more transparent, predictable, and efficient hiring journey from announcement to entry on duty. What Applicants Can Expect: Expedited Candidate Review Once the announcement closes, Human Resources will quickly review applications, issue certificates of eligible candidates the day after the announcement closes and refer applicants for hiring manager consideration. Quick Interviews & References HR may arrange interviews and will request references within 3-5 days after being referred to the hiring manager. Streamlined Pre-Employment Requirements: Following a tentative offer, applicants should be prepared to complete required steps, such as fingerprinting and background check, credentialing, and medical examination within 3 days of the offer. Clear and Timely Communication: Applicants will receive clear communication at key milestones, including referral, tentative offer, and onboarding instructions After meeting pre-employment requirements, candidates will receive a final job offer and start date. Onboarding tasks may continue after starting, with HR ensuring timely completion for a smooth transition into VA service. If selected, applicants should be prepared to come onboard within 30 days of the announcement closing. Duties may include, but are not limited to: Resolve high-priority logistics, supply, distribution, and service issues. Integrate Supply Chain Management (SCM) operations with VAMC services, supported activities, and customers. Develop procedures for emergency response, deployment, and continuity of operations. Coordinate personnel, equipment, commodity management, forecasting, distribution, and storage. Conduct logistical assessments and identify systemic supply chain deficiencies. Analyze root causes, recommend corrective actions, and ensure resolution of SCM problems. Develop annual and long-range supply plans, budgets, and cost-saving initiatives. Improve inventory management systems, reporting, forecasting, and supply tracking capabilities. Analyze supply chain effectiveness and develop strategies for continuous improvement. Determine current and future supply, procurement, maintenance, and inventory requirements. Advise leadership and program managers on SCM policies, operational impacts, and logistics planning. Develop and conduct SCM training, education, and customer support programs. Maintain continuity of supply support for spare and replacement parts. Prepare detailed reports, briefings, recommendations, and implementation plans. Ensure regulatory compliance and identify conflicting or outdated directives. Monitor procurement actions, inventory levels, delivery schedules, and major item readiness. Recommend procurement adjustments, including quantity changes, cancellations, delivery rates, and ordering periods. Lead special projects and serve as an SCM subject matter expert on customer initiatives. Plan, schedule, and evaluate training programs to ensure SCM personnel are properly trained. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Logistics Management Specialist/PD99839S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/23/2026. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Serving as a supply chain management leader, responsible for ensuring the logistical requirements of an organization are met; planning/coordinating and evaluating various operations to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of a logistics program. Areas of knowledge and skill should include acquisition management, purchasing, transportation, distribution, inventory management and control, expendable and non-expendable equipment, and warehouse operations; experience assisting with budget formulation and forecasting of expenditures. At this level, candidates should possess experience in leading and/or managing a group with a variety of occupations. NOTE: 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. 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/. Physical Requirements: Requires some physical effort such as standing, sitting, walking, or bending. There are no special physical demands. The work is performed in an office setting involving everyday risks or discomforts. Normal safety precautions are adequate.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.