Total 66 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in wright patterson afb ohio

This is a Maintenance Workforce Development Program (MWDP) Position. To be eligible, you MUST be a WG, WL, WS, or GS-7 or below employee currently working with the Air Force, OR eligible to apply as a military spouse assigned to a Formal Training Plan. This position is a developmental (GS-09 Target GS-11) position. Individual selected may be promoted without further competition, upon meeting all legal and regulatory requirements. Starting salary indicated on this vacancy announcement is for the GS-09. This position is covered by a formalized training program and pay retention of 150% of the maximum rate of the basic pay is authorized.

• Perform work associated with the management of items, and preparation of data for accurate planning of budgetary estimates.
• Validate Air Force repair requirements data, initiate repair, maintain documentation for repair actions.
• Review customer requirements and direct worldwide DoD supply activities to optimize worldwide asset distribution.
• Prepare presentations and reports for management relative to any aspect of assigned items or projects when required.
• Determine demand forecast factors, costs, lead times, and asset on hand levels that determine the buy and repair budget requirements for the assigned items.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

The Inventory Management Specialist duties include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures equipment accountability and appropriately managed, assigned and monitored.
• Schedules and conducts physical inventories.
• Maintains accountable property and receipt documents.
• Develops and supports the creation of acquisition strategies and standardization initiatives to acquire and purchase durable medical equipment.
• Analyzes data impacting procurement decisions.
• Conducts market research on product pricing and performance.
• Researches and conducts analysis of potential cost savings, efficiencies and process improvements using quantitative analysis and historical usage patterns.
• Utilizes performance measures to conduct forecasting and quantitative analysis.
• Identifies and rectifies asset management issues.
• Conducts short, mid and long-term advanced planning for non-expendable assets.
• Utilizes inventory principles, standard, and non-standard methodologies, and concepts to determine need to intervene in the supply system.
• Analyzes and advises on equipment purchase recommendations.
• Initiates and reviews reports for lost, damaged, or stolen property.
• Researches alternative sources for equipment procurement.
• Disposes of surplus or excess property.
• Coordinates final disposition of non-expendable assets.
• Participates in facility strategic planning.
• Advises and informs stakeholders concerning the management, control and accountability of equipment in use.
• Trains and assists on equipment acquisition, disposal, scanning and tracking of equipment.
• Assists customers in the creation of performance work statements for equipment procurements.
• Maintains equipment inventory lists.
• Ensures accuracy of all personal property records and property documents.
• Manages and controls all inventory transactions for non-expendable medical equipment requests and transactions.
• Maintains inventory management and control of non-expendable assets.
• Utilizes automated property management systems to manage facility property accountability program, create equipment records, research discrepancies, conduct inventories, bar code equipment and manage turned in excess property.
• Researches and develops solutions to complex problems.
• Traces sequences of inventory management transactions to resolve questions.
• Recommends actions to eliminate problems involved in delivering services to inventory customers or in implementing policies.
• Manages the property management program and determines the means and methods to resolve issues and improve operations.
• Formulates improved inventory management procedures and practices.

• 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

The primary purpose of this position is to provide clerical support, perform routine administrative tasks to assist resources management staff and to acquire equipment, supplies or services through open market procedures using acquisition procedures.
Classifies and verifies a wide variety of accounting documents in order to assure their mathematical correctness, completeness of information, and to prepare control sheets with appropriate accounting codes. Maintains double-entry bookkeeping journals and subsidiary ledgers and posting entries to establish accounts. Prepares monthly balances, reconciles accounts, and transcribes to general ledger for closeout of all accounts. Traces discrepancies, if necessary, to posting documents, computes operational expenses incurred by individual activities for accounting services provided, and assigns charges appropriately. Reports prepared may include profit and loss statements, financial statements, and miscellaneous financial reporting data. Determines procurement method based on such factors as procurement history, urgency of need, estimated cost, and applicable directives. Prepares requests for quotation to obtain quotes for small purchases and contracts. Verifies and abstracts information from vendors for orders or contracts. Reviews offers for compliance. Negotiates with vendors on a variety of issues, such as price breaks, accelerated delivery, reduction of service charges, etc. Prepares documentation for award. Issues purchase/delivery orders, Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) (priced and unpriced), Individual Service Contracts, Concessionaire Contracts, and other contracts and agreements within limits of contracting officer's warrant. Responsible for post award administration. Administers contracts, orders, agreements, and modifications, including follow-up. Gathers, monitors, and maintains data, related to purchasing, prepares reports and responds to inquiries. Uses automated systems to input purchase requests, issue orders, request for quotations (RFQ), and other purchasing associated information. This position may require occasional travel. Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Performs a variety of duties involved in receiving, handling, marking, preparing, displaying, and maintaining the stock of resale items.
• Involves regular and recurring operation of a forklift and may at store manager's discretion, include order writing tasks.
• Determines the amount of shelf space to be used for various items within a department and estimates the space requirements for new items or increased quantities.
• Receives supplies, equipment, and perishable, semi-perishable, and non-perishable resale items in the receiving area of the Commissary.
• Verifies shipments by checking the shipping documents, making proper notations on the documents, and identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, overages, or shortages.
• Operates a computer system that marks prices, calculates prices, and determines weight of merchandise.

• Performs a variety of duties involved in receiving, handling, marking, preparing, displaying and maintaining the stock of resale items.
• Involves regular and recurring operation of a forklift and may at store management's discretion, include order writing tasks.
• Determines the amount of shelf space to be used for various items within a department and estimates the space requirements for new items or increased quantities.
• Receives supplies, equipment, and perishable, semi-perishable, and non-perishable resale items in the receiving area of the commissary.
• Verifies shipments by checking the shipping documents, making proper notations on the documents, and identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, overages, or shortages.
• Operates a computer system that marks prices, calculates prices, and determines weights of merchandise.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

The Lead Purchasing Agent duties include, but are not limited to:

• Advises approving officials and purchase card holders on purchase card program, procurement procedures and responsibilities.
• Coaches and problem solves with team members.
• Delegate follow up action on undelivered orders and aged purchase card transactions to close out purchase orders.
• Provides advice on work methods, practices and procedures.
• Instructs Purchasing Agents in specific tasks and job techniques and make available written instructions, and reference materials.
• Ensures timely purchasing under the micro purchase threshold.
• Leads the coordination for sources of supplies and acceptable substitutions.
• Initiates sand provides training to acquisition and technical staff on the procurement process.
• Makes purchases involving specialized requirements and/or commercial requirements that have unstable price or product characteristics, hard-to-locate sources, or similar complicating factors.
• Provides procurement support throughout the procurement cycle.
• Conducts open market research for purchases of routine equipment, supplies, and services.
• Examines incoming procurement requests for completeness.
• Recommends or makes decisions based on analysis of various trade-offs (e.g. cost of renting vs. purchasing, free services included, vendor reputation or past performance).
• Reviews completed work to see that instructions on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met.
• Identifies training needs and gives on the job training.
• Distributes and balances workload among employees and assure completion of assigned work.
• Identifies factors to determine the best offer applicable for procurement.
• Maintains accountable procurement records and auditing information.
• Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques and provide written instructions, reference materials and supplies.
• Estimates and reports on expected time of completion of work.
• Monitors purchase requests and active and delinquent invoices, and process receipts.
• Utilizes Microsoft Office to create, edit and aggregate data necessary for expense tracking and Supply Chain management reporting.
• Maintains catalogs, contract files, and lists of firms offering specific equipment, supplies, and services.
• Develops reports and spreadsheets, obtain and organize files, and retrieve reports for briefings and presentation purposes.
• Compiles, consolidates, organizes, and summarizes specific procurement information to support efforts related to annual budget estimates and a variety of one-time and recurring reports.
• Analyzes descriptions and characteristics to identify problem areas.
• Develops recommended alternatives or solutions prior to completion of the procurement action when problems are encountered and/or deviations are required.
• Resolves disputes and informal complaints among medical staff and customers.
• Assesses urgency of patient needs and recommends source adjustments to meet patient and medical center needs.
• Plans and coordinates actions to prevent, correct, or resolve delays or misunderstandings in the purchasing process.

• 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.