As a TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, GS-2130-9, you will perform the following duties:
(1) Evaluates day-to-day operations to ensure the safe, efficient and economical use of cargo operations and/or carrier services. Resolves conventional problems associated with the movement of cargo, to include complex movements. Incumbent develops transportation guidance, plans for individual items, including any special handling, packaging, or other unique requirements, and analyzes transit time data to determine carrier effectiveness. Develops a real transit time base for use in planning shipments.
(2) Independently works on specified segments of large projects or well-defined projects of lesser scope involving explosives, other hazardous materials and items requiring special handling, such as classified, mail, medical, etc., that require the application of standardized traffic management methods and procedures. Uses judgment in selecting precedents. Interprets or adapts available guidelines according to project or assigned requirements and ensures consistency with transportation program policies and objectives. Resolves a variety of conventional transportation problems, questions, or situations.
(3) Conducts transportation studies by analyzing data items. Develops recommendations concerning improvements, new routes, consolidate shipments, new pickup and delivery schedules. Develops instructions and draft directives for noncontroversial issues.
(4) Ensures shipments are moved safely and efficiently. Prepares and distributes instructions and coordinates these instructions with the appropriate office. Monitors compliance issues and refers controversial problems to supervisor. Reviews draft instructions and operating procedures and recommends changes. Reviews documentation to verify accuracy of transportation related items. Reports high visibility and sensitive issues to superv isor. Analyzes and resolves problems of a procedural or factual nature.
(5) Resolves conventional problems associated with the movement of cargo. Responds to and resolves conventional problems identified by aerial ports/terminals, other functional areas, Tanker Airlift Control Center, and customers using the AMC airlift or commercial system involving cargo movement. Identifies complex issues to the supervisor. Selects and applies different methods and procedures to situational issues, depending on the particular phase of the project and/or the nature of the problems encountered. Considers such factors as the type of transportation service requested, cost, program needs, lead-time required, and applicable transportation regulation and guidelines.
(6) Provides advice, recommendations, solutions, and guidance to management, procurement and staff organizations, AF and DOD and non-DOD agencies on the safe, efficient and economical use of transportation resources. Analyzes management information reports of schedules, carriers, airfreight operations, military and commercial capabilities; ensures compliance with directives, pallet issues, cargo deficiencies, constraints, aerial port issues, and cargo configurations to ensure the most safe, cost efficient cargo service is provided. Identifies trends and patterns. Coordinates with commercial carriers and transportation operating agencies to resolve conventional problems regarding inadequate service, commercial aircraft limitations, force protection issues, securing cargo loads, improper handling and special handling of hazardous materials, and threatcon conditions. Obtains timely clearances, corrects shipment discrepancies, storage issues, work around, impact of weather on cargo, contamination and decontamination issues, small package consolidation, registered mail issues, inspection process and policy, training issues, hazardous materials, flight mishaps, shipper responsibilities, quality checks, customer requirements, HAZMAT incidents, inspection issues, packaging issues, movement procedures, and lost shipments.
(7) Monitors customer complaints of poor performance and recommends corrective action. Identifies more difficult issues and concerns to higher graded specialists and supervisor. Assists on the more difficult issues. Analyzes data to determine effectiveness and time trends for use in planning cargo shipments and recommends changes based on requests and on research of precedent cases.
Performs other duties as assigned.
*The above duty description does not contain all details of the official position description. A copy of the entire position description can be found on FASCLASS by searching the position description PD#: (D2126000). https://acpol2.army.mil/fasclass/search_fs/search_fasclass.asp