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Inventory Management Specialist (Technical Career Field Trainee - TCF)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 40 days ago
On-site Murfreesboro, TN $41K – $66K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 Inventory Management ESFPESTPISTJISTP Transportation
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The Technical Career Field (TCF) is a national workforce development program within VHA that was designed to replenish technical staff in critically identified positions. Inventory Management Specialists play a crucial role in patient services which impacts direct patient care. This position serves as an Inventory Management Specialist Technical Career Field Trainee of supply chain management in Logistics Service in a Veteran Affairs Health Care System (VA HCS) and supported catchment area.
What You'll Do
- →The TCF career fields represent those technical fields where VA-specific knowledge and experience is desirable for success in the field.
- →Individuals selected follow a formal training plan for two years during which they are trained, coached, and supervised by a preceptor.
- →Preceptors are selected annually, through an extensive application process, for their technical expertise, their commitment to training and the suitability of their facility as a training location. *Selectees will be required to sign Mobility, Training, and Continued Service Agreements.
- →This is a developmental position leading to a GS-09, performing assignments intended to broaden skills and provide practical experience leading to progressively more complex assignments performed under progressively less supervision.
- →The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.
- →Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
- →The trainee gains experience in practical knowledge of a wide range of well-established logistics operations, including: acquisition; purchasing of expendable materials/supplies; purchasing of non-expendable capital assets and equipment and inventory management.
- →Through development, the trainee will gain practical knowledge and understanding of the regulations, policies, directives, processes and standard operating procedures and management used to perform inventory management duties.
- →This PD is intended for Inventory Management Specialists participating in the Veteran Healthcare Administration (VHA) Technical Career Field (TCF) internal training program.
- →The TCF program offers two years of training in critically identified positions within specific career fields in accordance with VHA's Succession Workforce Plan.
- →Program participants receive paid salary/benefits, training/travel stipend, access to a preceptor/mentor and hands-on training.
- →The trainee responsibilities include inventory management of all expendable supplies, lifecycle management of non-expendable equipment and durable medical equipment (DME) in assigned area(s).
- →These major duties will be performed at the entry level.
- →Inventory Management and Control - 80%Manages and controls an assigned class of expendable material for a VA HCS and supported catchment area.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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