Total 10 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts

• Conduct extensive searches for information pertaining to a wide range of complex and/or unusual supply transactions and patterns.
• Research problems surfaced by customers and resolve issues or routes to appropriate senior leadership for further analysis.
• Retrieve and use data to evaluate a wide variety of supply transactions, programs, and vendor inquiries.
• Evaluate various supply transactions to include customer issues, backorders, turn-ins, and receipts for mission critical property.
• Perform research to determine reasons for patterns of transaction errors and failures. Research different databases and publications to extract data.
• Analyze data from different databases to ensure consistency and accuracy.

Serves as the first line Supervisor for Store Associates.

• Directs the following work in multiple areas of the commissary. - Front end operations including patron identification, customer inquiries, check out and cash control.
• Non-perishable stock control including transporting item and stocking shelves.
• Meat display and case stocking.
• Produce inspection display and rotation.
• Accounts maintenance, supply, and computer operations.

• Directs the following work in multiple areas of the commissary.
• Front end operations including patron identification, customer inquiries, check out and cash control.
• Non-perishable stock control including transporting item and stocking shelves.
• Meat display and case stocking.
• Produce inspection display and rotation.
• Accounts maintenance, supply, and computer operations.

• 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• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.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

• You will analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of a supply program.
• You will analyze inventories to forecast operation needs.
• You will execute policies to influence and control assets, use, or disposition of material and property
• You will analyze supply issues to resolve discrepancies with inventory programs or operations
• You will brief management to provide status, updates, or other business information.

• 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

• You will maintain the centralized property and acquisition databases.
• You will resolve material support problems to include reprioritizing acquisition workload data.
• You will serve as the Government Purchase Card accountable official with pecuniary liability for any erroneous purchase card reconciliations and payments.
• You will be the contact for the day-to-day condition of the facility and perform routine walk-throughs of building locations observing all facility issues.
• You will develop a preventive maintenance schedule to ensure major mechanical equipment is maintained appropriately and remains operational.
• You will coordinate the assignment and adjustment of the supply work performed by the military enlisted and civilian Supply Technician located in the Department.

• Executes the demand planning program for a complex portfolio of weapons systems and/or component piece parts.
• Evaluates and synthesizes analysis provided to resolve difficult demand planning issues involving processes, work methods, supply data management, and day-to-day operational procedures for assigned secondary items.
• Develops options to allow for differing or conflicting program requirements that cover multiple supply objectives including inventory management for assigned commodities.
• Supports supply chain management integration across the IPS Elements to optimize repair parts (Class II and IX) for system suitability, affordability, reliability, availability, maintainability.
• Provides demand planning, forecasting program, and process interpretations and recommendations to management officials and other supply specialists at the same and lower levels of the organization.
• Validates higher headquarters planning at the National Item Identification Number (NIIN) level, program level planning assumptions, return and demand history, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirements.
• Provides direct support to the Supply Planner regarding validation and correction of independent demand forecasts and generates forecast(s) reflecting all known planning assumptions to support monthly analysis and reporting operations.
• Monitors the status and effectiveness of material support provided as a result of forecasting techniques by identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems.
• Uses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to review demand history, apply demand plan adjustments, and generate forecasts.
• Coordinates with various stakeholders such as the weapon system team and the systems analysts to maintain complete and correct demand material master coding in the ERP system by submitting change requests to the material master cell.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area. You will be expected to report to a specific GSA duty location at least one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy.

• Develop building maintenance contracts to solicit skilled repair and/or alteration services.
• Develop purchasing contracts to procure supplies and/or equipment, including complex mechanical equipment.
• Prepare detailed solicitation documents for Invitation for Bids (IFB) and/or requests for proposals (RFP).
• Utilize historical data to analyze requisition or project proposals and/or contract modification requests for reasonableness.
• Review completed documentation for accuracy, adherence to established policies, and/or completion of corresponding duties.
• Review cost reports to identify any discrepancies that necessitate corrective action(s).
• Review mandatory sources of supply, supply schedules, excess property lists, and/or store stock catalogs to determine the most advantageous method of procurement.
• Write competitive solicitations (packages) for items or services that exceed open market financial quotations.
• Processes completed procurement actions for payment.

• You will extract information from databases to respond to questions and provide inventory status.
• You will advise on ways to improve the efficiency of distribution and storage operations.
• You will develop functional guidance for systems revisions and special automation projects specific to inventory management and related systems.
• You will collaborate with supply sources to obtain status on supply transactions.
• You will use automated information systems to transfer data requirements.
• You will advise on alternative approaches for shipment of materials or components to solve customer issues.