Total 25 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in Gunter AFB, Alabama

• Serve as project lead/manager, conducting organizational and process related studies and analysis of organizations, functions, and work processes to improve mission effectiveness, resource allocation and efficiency, functions, and work processes to improve mission effectiveness, and resource allocation.
• Plan, organize, and oversee the activities of the organization, ensuring that logistics management related operations comply
  with legal and regulatory requirements and meet customer needs.
• Participate in special logistics related operation projects and initiatives and perform special assignments.
• Represent the organization with a variety of installation and functional area organizations.
• Serve as focal point in the support of supply and logistics systems processes and procedures, organize and provide specialized functional supply expertise towards the activities of the organization.

• Leads a team that is the single point of contact for all acquisitions in support of SDDC, providing guidance and recommendations to the Command Leadership, Subordinate Commands, Army Service Component Command, team members, and Contracting Agencies.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets priorities, and ensures performance is timely, efficient, and of acceptable quality.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative environment with requirement owners to develop acquisition strategies, provide support on requirement package generation and management of acquisitions.
• Creates a positive and welcoming culture where empowerment and creativity thrive.
• Fosters the development of others by providing guidance, sharing expertise, and perspective to build future leaders and maximize employees' full potential
• Evaluates the effectiveness of operations supervised in terms of mission accomplishment, quality and quantity standards, procedural, policy, and regulatory compliance
• Provides technical advice on contractual matters based on in-depth knowledge of acquisition regulations and policies
• Directs and coordinates plans for development and refinement of new and diverse acquisition management strategies to accomplish short-, mid-, and long-term organizational goals and objectives

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

• Operate an electronic checkout system, makes change, and verifies change fund and amount of currency received during an assigned shift.
• Manage change machines ensuring proper amounts of cash and coins are available.
• Assist customers by answering questions concerning prices, identification, and location of items.
• Count cash and negotiable instruments and to prepare an accountability report.
• Manage the self-check-out registers assisting customers in the correct processing of their purchases.
• Change register tape, and clear routine equipment and scanning jams on registers.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

The Lead Purchasing Agent is responsible for issuing, reviewing and or procuring prescribed items to Veterans in compliance with VHA guidelines and directives. As a purchase card holder, fulfills acquisition requests under the federal micro-purchase threshold, ensuring purchases are procured in accordance with federal and VA regulations, policy and procedures with responsibility for work leading to the purchase of a wide variety of complex and highly specialized services, supplies, equipment, and systems.
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Lead Duties - Leads three or more Purchasing Agents performing work at or below the GS-6 level; serves as first respondent to any staff concerns related to procurement or purchase orders and is expected to work independently to resolve those issues, only escalating unresolvable issues; distributes and balances the workload among employees; assures timely accomplishment of assignments; and reviews completed work for compliance; instructs Purchasing Agents in specific tasks and job techniques; and, identifies training needs and provides on the job training to new Purchasing Agents.
• Purchasing and Procurement Support - Conducts purchasing for the VA HCS and supported catchment area under the micro purchase threshold; purchases various equipment, supplies, and services using the government purchase card for micro purchases; utilizes different ordering, reporting procedures, and purchasing methods depending on the type quantity, dollar value, and urgency of the requirement; provides administration and oversight on orders and services; advises approving officials and purchase card holders on purchase card program, procurement procedures and responsibilities.
• Administrative Support - Serves as the first line of contact for medical staff and customers in regard to procured items; provides clerical support and coordination to approving officials and administrators; utilizes a variety of automated systems to enter, update, revise, sort, and calculate data; develops reports and spreadsheets, obtains, organizes, files and retrieves reports for briefing and presentation purposes.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Works with customers to identify their needs, solve or coordinate the timely resolution of customer orders/support problems, and act as a customer advocate and liaison.
• Monitors backorder status reports and personally resolve, or help resolve problem actions not meeting customer requirements.
• Investigates, coordinates, and releases Sales Orders that inhibit flow through automated systems.
• Applies DLA expedite policy and other operating procedures to expedite the actions within supply chains.
• Coordinates the research and tracking of Stock Transfer Orders (STOs) actions to facilitate resolution of backorders or take action to expedite delinquent contracts having an impact on unfilled orders using established policies/guidance.
• Coordinates with appropriate service representatives to identify alternative sources of supply, respond to customer requests, and provide advice regarding changes to sales orders as needed.
• Collects, evaluates, and summarizes performance data pertaining to specific agency program goals and objectives and those of customers; leads meetings to communicate ideas and solicit feedback toward improving business/customer support operations.
• Prepares briefing materials including background information, recommendations, statistical data, charts and graphs; writes detailed reports concerning the status of their assignments and issues identified in the course of performing the work.

• Operating an electronic checkout system, making change, and verifying the change fund and amount of currency received during an assigned shift.
• Managing change machines and ensuring proper amounts of cash and coins are available.
• Assisting customers by answering questions concerning prices, identification, and location of items.
• Counting cash and negotiable instruments to prepare an accountability report.
• Managing the self-checkout registers assisting customers in the correct processing of their purchases.
• Changing register tape, and clearing routine equipment and scanning jams on registers.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

• Operates an electronic checkout system, makes change, and verifies change fund and amount of currency received during an assigned shift.
• Manages change machines ensuring proper amounts of cash and coins are available.
• Assists customers by answering questions concerning prices, identification, and location of items.
• Counts cash and negotiable instruments and to prepare an accountability report.
• Manages the self-check-out registers assisting customers in the correct processing of their purchases.
• Changes register tape, and clear routine equipment and scanning jams on registers.

• Assisting customers by answering questions such as item price or location, and handling bulky/heavy items.
• Operating an electronic checkout system to record unit price, total customer purchase, and make change.
• Performing a variety of duties in handling, preparing and maintaining stock levels of grocery and produce items.
• Reviewing stock levels and gathering inventory data in order to maintain the Computer Assisted Ordering (CAO) system.
• Preparing and maintaining a variety of documents to order commissary items, reconcile invoices and submit requisitions.
• Maintaining security, safety, and sanitation practices and procedures.

• Assisting customers by answering questions such as item price or location, and handling bulky/heavy items.
• Operating an electronic checkout system to record unit price, total customer purchase, and make change.
• Performing a variety of duties in handling, preparing and maintaining stock levels of grocery and produce items.
• Reviewing stock levels and gathering inventory data in order to maintain the Computer Assisted Ordering (CAO) system.
• Preparing and maintaining a variety of documents to order commissary items, reconcile invoices and submit requisitions.
• Maintaining security, safety, and sanitation practices and procedures.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

• Assisting customers by answering questions such as item price or location, and handling bulky/heavy items.
• Operating an electronic checkout system to record unit price, total customer purchase, and make change.
• Performing a variety of duties in handling, preparing and maintaining stock levels of grocery and produce items.
• Reviewing stock levels and gathering inventory data in order to maintain the Computer Assisted Ordering (CAO) system.
• Preparing and maintaining a variety of documents to order commissary items, reconcile invoices and submit requisitions.
• Maintaining security, safety, and sanitation practices and procedures.

Major Duties:

• Supervises a group of employees performing work at the GS-13 level.
• Exercises supervisory authorities and responsibilities involving work assignment and review, as well as the administrative and personnel management functions relative to the staff supervised.
• Provides administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the team.
• Distributes workload within the team and ensures the work assignments of employees in the team are carried out.
• Reviews the work of team members at various stages of completion to assure compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and VA Acquisition Regulations (VAAR), VA/VHA policies, directives, information letters, handbooks, and Procurement & Logistics Office (PLO) and RPO East standard operating procedures.
• Tracks work assigned to the team from receipt through closeout. Serves as a point of contact for internal and external customers.
• Oversees the RPO East program, which conducts required contract reviews of solicitations for the most complex procurements in the contracting activity for pre-solicitation, pre-negotiation and pre-award packages, which includes serving on Contract Review Teams (CRTs) and Contract Review Board (CRBs).
• Provides guidance and technical direction to contracting officers as needed for complex technical contract questions.

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated