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Property Disposal Specialist

DLA Careers
Battle Creek, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 9/3/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Property Disposal Specialist position at DLA Careers?

Summary

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Duties

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  • Performs work to dispose of personal, excess property to include property reutilization, donation, and/or marketing decisions.
  • Performs management and oversight of inventory, demilitarization, property accountability, logistics operations, reutilization, transfer, donation, and sale of property.
  • Performs a variety of tasks relating to the performance of the property disposal system through the areas of reutilization, transfer, donation or sales.
  • Identifies initial or new requirements; coordinates, develops and implements new and revised policies, procedures, plans and programs.
  • Issues and/or provides technical advice, guidance, training, instruction and assistance to assigned disposal activities' staff on property disposal compliance and/or developing quality assurance programs.
  • Oversees and evaluates the efficiency of assigned disposal activities throughout an assigned area via statistical analysis and automated information systems reports.

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
  • Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive
  • Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
  • Recruitment Incentives: No
  • Bargaining Unit Status: Yes
  • Pre-Employment Physical: Required
  • Financial Disclosure Requirement: Required

Qualifications

To qualify for a Property Disposal Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

  • Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to the position. To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time- in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
  • Performing property disposal management, control and advisory activities.
  • Developing property disposal policies and procedures.
  • Performing reutilization, transfer, donation and sales of products.
  • Assuring property is accurately accounted for.
  • Advising on proper warehousing practices.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Physical Demands

Performance of work may require frequent visits to generator collection points and areas, and inspections of DLA Disposition Services warehousing facilities and observing customer/contractor on site operations, which requires extended walking and standing. Performs moderate to heavy lifting when moving material by hand or hand-truck. Maybe required to operate a variety of forklift trucks varying in capacity from 2,000 - 15, 000 pounds, to move, load and unload, stack or un-stack palletized materials, supplies and equipment from point of pick up to designated location.

Work Environment

Performing site work involves risks and discomforts such as: long hours; handling of property at forward receiving facilities; exposure to hazardous or toxic material or waste; and/or exposure to adverse weather conditions during visits to customers to evaluate or assess inventory. Work may also involve moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precaution, e.g., working around moving parts, carts, or machines; with contagious diseases or irritant chemicals; etc. May be required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, coats, boots, goggles or shields.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to: http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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