Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

The Building People Purchasing Agent in Atlanta, Georgia

The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a full-time Purchasing Agent. This position would have to report to one of the following locations: Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Charlotte NC, Tampa, FL, or Nashville, TN. The Purchasing Agent serves customer needs through the placement of Government orders against established contracts (i.e. purchase orders and/or calls against BPAs or other FSS schedules, PBS regional/national IDIQs or other Government sources of supply. Contractor will perform Pre-award and Post-award contracting actions. All procurement actions are at or under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT). The contractor will be expected to use a variety of purchasing procedures to acquire supplies, services and construction. All work is governed by the FAR and supplemented by additional regulations, legal precedents and agency policy and procedures

Required Experience & Skills

  • Knowledge of solicitation or purchasing methods such as oral solicitations, calls against BPAs, delivery orders or priced purchase orders to make noncompetitive open market purchases, purchases under established contracts or competitive open market purchases when specifications or statements of work are standardized, price and product characteristics are stable and repeat vendors are used.

  • Knowledge of frequently used and easily understood regulations such as those related to required sources, use of mandatory schedules or ordering and documentation procedures for routine purchases to ensure regulatory compliance throughout the purchasing process.

  • Knowledge of basic price evaluation techniques to assess price reasonableness using well established references such as price lists, Govt estimates and previous history.

  • Knowledge of basic arithmetic used in business to make comparisons of price

  • Knowledge of current software and media applications to facilitate the efficient exchange of information via email, spreadsheets, Webex, Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation (FPDS-NG), Electronic Contract File Viewer (ECF), Federal Business Opportunities (FBO), E-buy, Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) Procurement Processing System (EASi) and other software programs.

Preferred Experience & Skills

  • Federal Government experience is a plus

Required Education

  • High School Diploma

  • At least two (2) years experience in contract purchasing or similar position.

  • Requires 20 Hours of Professional Acquisition Related Training (Annually)

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