Total 26 Transportation / Logistics job vacancies in Fort Smith, AR

• Supervise the service and repair work on heavy duty mobile equipment and vehicles powered by internal combustion engines such as diesel, multi-fuel, turbine, supercharged, and turbo supercharged engines.
• Exercise full supervisory responsibility planning daily, weekly, and monthly work schedules and sequence of operations for subordinates.
• Develop performance standards, counsel employees on performance, and make formal and informal performance appraisals.
• Explain repair work requirements, methods, and procedures; instructs subordinates in new procedures to accomplish maintenance operations.
• Utilize multiple Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) Logistics Information Systems (LIS) or equivalent system in order to gather information to provide documentation of maintenance operations.

• Contact suppliers and manufacturers to discuss provisions of supplies or services, price discounts, delivery provisions, item availability, or short deadlines.
• Review specifications submitted by users for clarity and completeness.
• Perform equipment identification, location functions, and accuracy of equipment records utilizing hand held scanner, Real Time Location System (RTLS) and queries through property accounting systems.
• Obtain facts and circumstances containing loss or damage to property and prepares Inventory Adjustment Reports, Statement of Charges, or Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss documents.
• Ensure required documents, sales slips, and/or delivery tickets are legible accurate, complete, and are on-hand for reconciliation with statement of account.
• Operate a variety of motor vehicles weighing less than 26,000 pounds on and off the installation ranging from sedans to five-ton cargo type trucks.
• Obtain medical/dental materiel, equipment, and services from commercial sources.
• Research mandatory sources, Prime Vendor (PVM), and Electronic Catalog (ECAT) for requested items and, if found, orders through the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) system from mandatory source.

• Contact suppliers and manufacturers to discuss provisions of supplies or services, price discounts, delivery provisions, item availability, or short deadlines.
• Review specifications submitted by users for clarity and completeness.
• Perform equipment identification, location functions, and accuracy of equipment records utilizing hand held scanner, Real Time Location System (RTLS) and queries through property accounting systems.
• Obtain facts and circumstances containing loss or damage to property and prepares Inventory Adjustment Reports, Statement of Charges, or Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss documents.
• Ensure required documents, sales slips, and/or delivery tickets are legible accurate, complete, and are on-hand for reconciliation with statement of account.
• Operate a variety of motor vehicles weighing less than 26,000 pounds on and off the installation ranging from sedans to five-ton cargo type trucks.
• Obtain medical/dental materiel, equipment, and services from commercial sources.
• Research mandatory sources, Prime Vendor (PVM), and Electronic Catalog (ECAT) for requested items and, if found, orders through the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) system from mandatory source.

• Develop a government property plan which specifies specific methods of supply surveillance and inventories.
• Conduct inspection of records to ensure proper accountability is maintained for all government property.
• Conduct inventories and identify excess equipment for transfer or turn-in.
• Identify critical processes for acquisition through disposition of government property.
• Ensure equipment portions of contracts are updated and modified when equipment changes occur.
• Advise higher management and command of any irregularities or misuse of property and recommend appropriate action(s).

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Materials Handler (Motor Vehicle Operator) position, you will perform a full range of warehouse duties that include receiving, unloading, storing, shipping, and maintaining equipment and supplies stored at FEMA Distribution Centers in support of federal disaster operations.

Typical assignments include:

• Driving trucks up to 26,000 lbs. on a regular basis.
• Driving trucks up to 32,000 lbs. (tractor-trailer) on a limited basis.
• Performing a full range of warehouse duties, and receives, unloads, stores, ships, and maintains equipment and supplies.
• Assisting in the efficient storage and arrangement of materials, following Agency procedures and regulations.
• Operating a fork-lift to move material and equipment.
• Operating a computer terminal to record data.
• Verifying the quantity and quality of items received.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

• Plan, coordinate, supervise, and perform Contracting Officer’s Representative oversight over all activities associated with Transportation Motor Pool operations, personnel, supplies, and equipment for supported organizations and units.
• Approve the terms and conditions of transportation and maintenance contracts/agreements to ensure contractor and government performance are in compliance.
• Direct the Vehicle Operations and Contract Maintenance Branch staff in performing quality assurance evaluations, including monitoring and reporting of contractor performance for transportation and maintenance related contracted services.
• Formulate policies, analyze, and recommend new methods of application or changes to existing policies; and develop transportation operations principles, concepts, techniques, and procedures and participate in related studies.
• Implement transportation management and functional system operating standards for the command to ensure maximum utilization of resources and compliance with higher headquarters policies and directives.
• Plan and assign work to subordinates determining work schedules and priorities.

• Maintains liaison and provides customer service to a wide range of organizations to support customers’ requirements for intermodal transportation and distribution services.
• Conducts Quality Control and validates Export Traffic Release Request (ETRR) for cargo originating within Brigade.
• Reports any known contractor failures to the Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs).
• Provides technical advisory assistance and recommendations on transportation practices and traffic patterns pertaining to freight.
• May represent the Command at planning conferences such as, JCS Exercise Planning conferences.
• Incumbent utilizes a broad knowledge of transportation contracts and laws, procedures, policies, regulations, organizational structures, lines of communication.

This Transportation Security Manager position is located Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will be responsible for mitigating threats against civil aviation and other transportation security modes. You will manage one or more programs, including, but not limited to, Checkpoints, Coordination Center, and/or Behavior Detection Officer (BDO) Screening of Passengers by Observational Techniques (SPOT) Program, as assigned by the Federal Security Director (FSD), Deputy FSD, or Assistant FSD. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Fostering a collaborative organization that networks freely with each other to accomplish the mission.
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with TSA Stakeholders.
• Supporting a culture that values an exceptional workforce through empowerment, support of risk-based decision making, and coaching/mentoring.
• Utilizing appropriate leadership styles and techniques based on evaluation of the situation, in order to effectively guide and direct staff.
• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., STSOs, BAOs, BDOs, airlines, etc.) to ensure communication of up-to-date threat information.
• Facilitating and contributing to daily briefing discussions, and using scenarios and examples to clarify appropriate application of Standard Operating Procedures and to engage and empower the workforce.
• Monitoring, encouraging, and continually reinforcing principles of critical thinking, specialized communication tactics, and understanding of the security threat.
• Assessing security operations and managing resources to reduce stress and encourage use of network to maximize mitigation of the threat.
• Responding to and resolving security related incidents, emergency situations, and difficult customer service issues by creating calm, establishing command presence, and using critical thinking and tactical communication.
• Creating and reinforcing a work environment that maintains open, respectful communication, values employees, and encourages the use of cooperative problem solving.

As a Telecommunications Specialist (Aviation), your typical work assignments may include:

• Participating in sensitive covert activities requiring the installation and recovery of electronic devices.
• Tracking and intercepting airborne surveillance to assist personnel with investigative operations by integrating the use of electronic communications equipment.
• Designing and modifying large and diverse inventory of highly specialized state-of-the-art electronics used in surveillance and information gathering activities to support criminal investigations and prosecutions.
• Participating in maintenance of covert and concealed surveillance equipment.
• Analyzing networks, including radio frequency-based (e.g., cellular, radio, Wi-Fi) and internet protocol-based, to determine the best technological approach (i.e. electronic surveillance, communication, and interception) to use in support of an investigative operations.

• Plan and coordinate activities involved with the shipment of government property.
• Conduct inspections of contractor operations to ensure compliance with contracts.
• Investigate customer complaints concerning contractor performance.
• Document the most efficient and economical rates, routes, and carriers for movement of personal property.
• Maintain files on non-temporary storage of household goods.
• Assist in preparation of property shipment documentation.
• Process applications for temporary storage of household personal property.
• Provide information regarding procedures and regulations for submitting claims for reimbursement.

This is a bargaining unit position. This position is represented by AFGE. Please note that as provided for in the AFGE/VA Master Agreement the FIRST area of consideration for this position will be permanent employees of the local facility in which this position is being filled, the SECOND area of consideration will be employees at other VA facilities, and the THIRD area of consideration will be all other eligibles.

This position involves the overhaul of automotive vehicles. The work involves the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of combustion- powered automotive vehicles, over-the-road trucks, and comparable vehicles, such as passenger cars, pickup trucks, buses, semi trailer truck tractors, warehouse tractors, farm tractors, forklifts, motorcycles, light combat vehicles, such as jeeps and trucks, and other vehicles with similar characteristics, including their gasoline and diesel engines and other mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and electronically controlled systems. May be required to perform on burial details and/or grave repair details.

Work schedule: May be required to work Monday through Friday to include occasional weekends. Due to the mission of the National Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days at any given time. Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on that holiday or a Saturday. All staff is required to work Memorial Day each year. Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.
Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Available

Position Description Title/PD#: Automotive Mechanic/ PD1392963
The full performance level of this position is WG - 10.

Relocation Expenses: Not Authorized
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

• Serve as a retail ammunition supply point (ASP) Ammunition Accountable Property Officer and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative.
• Ensure the stock record account and all associated conventional ammunition, missiles, and large rockets are properly managed and accounted for during requisition, receipt, storage, maintenance, surveillance, issue, turn-in, and shipment.
• Monitor ASP contractor to ensure forecasted training ammunition, munitions, and operational loads are requisitioned, received, stored, issued, retrograded, and residue processed.
• Ensure that items of munitions within area of responsibility are afforded the proper and required physical protection and security to ensure against loss through theft, damage or deterioration.
• Request and coordinate with ASP contractor for required and special inventories of stocks.
• Use a variety of supply system automated reports and data to identify and resolve problems and to make improvements in warehouse procedures.
• Review and provide technical guidance to ASP contractor in stock control activity administrative procedures to ensure accuracy and integrity of all accountable records.
• Approve or disapprove issue of ammunition considering such factors as mixed ammunition, vehicle suitability, and accurate documentation completed, individual authorization, past history of the unit, and troop training dates.
• Monitor and evaluate the adequacy of contractor performance in ASP operations including stock control, accountability, maintenance, operation of automated systems.
• Serve as point of contact for external ammunition security and safety inspections.

• You will perform various duties in the supply administration at the Marine Artillery Detachment, as well as support to warehouse activities. Work involves property accountability, inventory management of various types of Government property.
• You will maintain an inventory of government vehicles, office supplies and furniture, combat equipment, weapons systems, special tools, computer equipment and safety equipment. Inventory categories may change or expand to meet command needs.
• You will perform various duties which include receiving, locating, issuing, shipping, purchasing, disposal of supplies and equipment in the Command's supply operations.
• You will collect and analyze purchase requests for supplies to be purchased using the Government Purchase Card Program (GPCP). Maintain current and past purchase documentation and file records in accordance with Marine Corps and Army standards.
• You will review, validate, and revise shopping list information prior to each purchase and ensures all transactions meet required source of supply, cost, quality of product.

Incumbent performs a combination of routine, multiple, and varying assignments.

Typical assignments may include: collecting and analyzing data/information; conducting research; applying policies and procedures; identifying problems; and working with higher-level and lower-level professionals in day-to-day operations in one or more regional programs.

The incumbent works closely with medical officers to assure the following: (1) medical certifications are only issued to medically qualified airmen, (2) ATCS physical exams meet program requirements, (3) an appropriate number of qualified physicians are selected, designated and trained as AMEs to conduct FAA medical examinations of civil airmen, (4) AME site visits and quality assurance reviews are conducted and (5) All phases of the DOT drug and alcohol testing program, including pre-employments/pre-appointment, random, follow-up, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident testing are coordinated. This position may require travel in support of these program areas.

Responsible for ensuring all activities are performed in accordance with established regulations. Incumbent may provide technical direction to other staff personnel in the division as well as communicating technical program information to a diverse audience orally and in writing.

Incumbent complies with all Quality Management System (ISO-9001) requirements.

FV-0343-G Duties:

Acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team for project/programs within a defined area of responsibility.

Applies experience and detailed knowledge applicable to programs within the Aerospace Medicine Division to plan and accomplish assignments.

Work is typically reviewed frequently during assignments and at completion to ensure timeliness policy compliance, and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.

FV-0343-H Duties:

May act as a contributing specialist on large work activities or as a project manager or team leader for large projects/programs/activities.

Applies experience and advanced knowledge applicable to programs within the Aerospace Medicine Division to plan and accomplish assignments. Assignments may require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.

Demonstrates considerable independence in planning time and helping a manager, project/program manager, and/or team lead to plan and use assigned resources to accomplish tasks.

Work at this level requires the application of experience and advanced knowledge applicable to program systems and processes. May be called upon by peers in problem solving or process development initiatives that require subject matter leadership. Works with management and more experience professionals to jointly solve problems.

Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager or more experienced professional. Refers to a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional for problems or issues that require their attention.

Work is reviewed periodically, typically at major milestones and/or completion for policy compliance, and alignment with the requirements of the work being performed.

Incumbent performs a combination of routine, multiple, and varying assignments.

Typical assignments may include: collecting and analyzing data/information; conducting research; applying policies and procedures; identifying problems; and working with higher-level and lower-level professionals in day-to-day operations in one or more regional programs.

The incumbent works closely with medical officers to assure the following: (1) medical certifications are only issued to medically qualified airmen, (2) ATCS physical exams meet program requirements, (3) an appropriate number of qualified physicians are selected, designated and trained as AMEs to conduct FAA medical examinations of civil airmen, (4) AME site visits and quality assurance reviews are conducted and (5) All phases of the DOT drug and alcohol testing program, including pre-employments/pre-appointment, random, follow-up, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident testing are coordinated. This position may require travel in support of these program areas.

Responsible for ensuring all activities are performed in accordance with established regulations. Incumbent may provide technical direction to other staff personnel in the division as well as communicating technical program information to a diverse audience orally and in writing.

Incumbent complies with all Quality Management System (ISO-9001) requirements.

FV-0343-G Duties:

Acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team for project/programs within a defined area of responsibility.

Applies experience and detailed knowledge applicable to programs within the Aerospace Medicine Division to plan and accomplish assignments.

Work is typically reviewed frequently during assignments and at completion to ensure timeliness policy compliance, and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.

FV-0343-H Duties:

May act as a contributing specialist on large work activities or as a project manager or team leader for large projects/programs/activities.

Applies experience and advanced knowledge applicable to programs within the Aerospace Medicine Division to plan and accomplish assignments. Assignments may require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.

Demonstrates considerable independence in planning time and helping a manager, project/program manager, and/or team lead to plan and use assigned resources to accomplish tasks.

Work at this level requires the application of experience and advanced knowledge applicable to program systems and processes. May be called upon by peers in problem solving or process development initiatives that require subject matter leadership. Works with management and more experience professionals to jointly solve problems.

Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager or more experienced professional. Refers to a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional for problems or issues that require their attention.

Work is reviewed periodically, typically at major milestones and/or completion for policy compliance, and alignment with the requirements of the work being performed.