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Lead Purchasing Agent
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as the Prosthetics and Sensory Aid Service Lead Purchasing Agent and is responsible for all procurement functions in the Prosthetic Patient Services section and for insuring that all patient prosthetic orders are procured within the time frame established by Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO). Incumbent is the Prosthetic Service's responsible authority on all areas involving purchasing prosthetic appliances, equipment and services for patients.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Independently reviews purchases performed by the purchasing staff to ensure that proper and legal procurement procedures are being followed and that established mandatory deadlines are being met.
- →Review daily workload needs, establish expected time of completion of work and assign/distribute the work to appropriate purchasing staff based on job specialization and workflow.
- →Maintains frequent contact with prosthetic purchasing agents to assure work assignments are being accomplished and redistributes workload as necessary to ensure required deadlines are met.
- →Reject incorrect purchases and return such rejections to staff for correction.
- →Reviews corrected work.
- →Inform PTC management team of any issues impacting the ability of the section to meet the daily needs.
- →Included will be recommended actions for resolution.
- →Maintains a thorough and current knowledge of all prosthetic applications, VHA directives, prosthetic sensory aid service policies and procedure, etc.
- →Obtains information or decisions from supervisor on problems that occur.
- →Provide all training of new prosthetic purchasing agents and re-certification of existing purchasing agents utilizing national training guides, handbooks, reference manuals, business practice guidelines and presentations.
- →Perform duties as the "expert purchasing agent"; answers all questions and solves technical problems occurring in the Patient Services purchasing section.
- →Provides direct input to supervisor of the performance and progress of each Prosthetic purchasing agent including awards and disciplinary action.
- →Performs technical level purchasing support adhering to the FAR, V AAR, VHA, and Prosthetics Directives and Handbooks, VISN policy and station memorandums to acquire patient specific medical equipment, supplies and services.
- →Verifies accountability of all prosthetics expenditures in both the purchase menu and the prosthetics program and associates all obligations to the individual Veteran.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the 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.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
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