Textile Manufacturing Specialist

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

This position is located in the Clothing and Textile Business Group, Central Office, Washington, D.C. Serves as a Manufacturing Specialist with a major focus on both production excellence and customer sales support under the supervision of the Manager of Manufacturing. Facilitates conformance of all functional areas to established sales levels in the Clothing & Textiles factories in order to meet the customers' requirements.

Duties will include any of the following activities: providing technical, developmental and operational manufacturing systems and the implementation of competitive technologies and procedures to achieve efficient and quality delivery of products to the customers. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. Experience You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in industrial operations, plant layouts, and machinery used in the fabrication of complex products. Experience in cost/benefit analysis to ensure that production costs are kept to a minimum while assuring maximum benefit to both Federal Prison Industries and the customer in terms of quality and on-time delivery. Experience in manufacturing environment to include methods/process analysis, problem solving, production planning, inventory control and production flow management.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**