Inventory Management Specialist

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/06/2026. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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 and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Receiving, inspecting, labeling, barcoding and storing supplies and equipment, and applying stock rotation and handling requirements for sensitive or temperature-controlled items Maintaining item and equipment records in an automated inventory system, including quantities, locations and asset movement Conducting physical inventories, cycle counts and reconciliations, finding the causes of discrepancies, and preparing corrective documentation Supporting property accountability for nonexpendable equipment through tagging, scanning and equipment inventory records Checking shipments against packing slips and orders, resolving discrepancies, and coordinating delivery of materials to customers Preparing purchase requests through mandatory sources of supply and keeping procurement and receiving files audit-ready Specialized Experience GS-07: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.