Summary
About the Position: Incumbent serves as a Traffic Management Specialist in the Domestic Movement Support Division. Responsible for providing transportation support to include meeting with commercial service providers, hosting conferences and workshops, conducting assessments of commercial carrier performance, and developing revisions to procedures, policies, and regulations. As a senior traffic management specialist, focus is on providing more complex traffic management functional expertise.
Duties
Provide domestic transportation and business liaison support to commercial industry and DoD shippers.
Provide transportation functional guidance in the development of special studies designed to streamline or modernize the movement of domestic freight.
Respond to inquiries from Transportation Service Providers (TSP) and DOD Transportation Officers/traffic managers on a variety of domestic freight traffic management problems.
Support domestic freight programs/operations with efficient and effective recommendations of freight costs/charges IAW governing DOD policies and Federal regulations.
Evaluate the needs of Command customers in order to develop programs and specific solutions to meet customers needs.
Provide strategic analyses and recommendations of plans, arrangements and operations of all commodities of freight transported by multiple surface modes within CONUS.
Meet with DoD customers and commercial service providers through conferences, workshops and ad hoc meetings to address operations/systemic issues.
Provide technical guidance, training and recommendations to other specialists.
Provide domestic freight systems transportation and traffic management functional expertise.
Education
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
How you will be evaluated
Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. You may claim Military Spouse preference. You may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.