Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Fifteen of Sixty-six

    GS-1100 - BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY GROUP   

This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work pertaining to and requiring a knowledge of business and trade practices, characteristics and use of equipment, products, or property, or industrial production methods and processes, including the conduct of investigations and studies; the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information; the establishment and maintenance of contacts with industry and commerce; the provision of advisory services; the examination and appraisement of merchandise or property; and the administration of regulatory provisions and controls.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Series in this group are:

GS-1101 - General Business and Industry Series

This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to administer, supervise, or perform: (1) any combination of work characteristic of two or more series in this group where no one type of work is series controlling and where the combination is not specifically included in another series; or (2) other work properly classified in this group for which no other series has been provided.

GS-1102 - Contracting Series*

This series includes positions that manage, supervise, perform, or develop policies and procedures for professional work involving the procurement of supplies, services, construction, or research and development using formal advertising or negotiation procedures; the evaluation of contract price proposals; and the administration or termination and close out of contracts. The work requires knowledge of the legislation, regulations, and methods used in contracting; and knowledge of business and industry practices, sources of supply, cost factor, and requirements characteristics.

GS-1103 - Industrial Property Management Series*

This occupation includes positions that primarily require a knowledge of business and industrial practices, procedures, and systems for the management and control of Government-owned property. These positions involve technical work in the administration of contract provisions relating to control of Government property in the possession of contractors, from acquisition through disposition. Also included are positions that involve providing staff leadership and technical guidance over property administration matters.

GS-1104 - Property Disposal Series*

This series includes administrative, managerial, and technical work required to redistribute, donate, sell, abandon, destroy, and promote the use of excess and surplus personal property. Employees must know: (1) characteristics, proper identities, and uses of property items; (2) merchandising and marketing methods and techniques; and/or (3) property disposal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures.

GS-1105 - Purchasing Series*

This series includes positions that involve supervising or performing work to acquire supplies, services, and construction by purchase, rental, or lease through (1) delivery orders and/or (2) small purchase procedures. The work requires knowledge of policies and procedures for delivery orders and small purchases. This work also requires knowledge of commercial supply sources and common business practices related to sales, prices, discounts, units of measurement, deliveries, stocks, and shipments.

GS-1106 - Procurement Clerical and Technician Series*

This series includes positions that involve performing or supervising clerical and technical work that supports the procurement of supplies, services, and/or construction. Procurement clerks and technicians prepare, control, and review procurement documents and reports; verify or abstract information contained in documents and reports; contact vendors to get status of orders and expedite delivery; maintain various procurement files; resolve a variety of shipment, payment, or other discrepancies; or perform other similar work in support of procurement programs and operations. The work requires a practical knowledge of procurement procedures, operations, regulations, and programs.

GS-1107 - Property Disposal Clerical and Technician Series*

This series includes positions involved in supervising or performing support work related to the utilization, donation, sale, and other disposition of excess and surplus personal property. It requires knowledge of property disposal operations and programs and the ability to apply regulations, practices, and procedures.

GS-1130 - Public Utilities Specialist Series

This series includes positions that require application of knowledge concerning the business practices, rate structures, and operating characteristics of public utilities, in carrying out such functions as: (1) analysis of utility rate schedules to determine their reasonableness and applicability; (2) investigation and analysis of the business management organization and financial structure of public utilities in connection with licensing or regulatory actions, including preparation and presentation of testimony before regulatory bodies; (3) purchase or sale by the Government of utility resources and services; and (4) related functions that require the kind of knowledge indicated above. The utilities with which these positions are primarily concerned are telecommunications, electric and gas power, water, steam, and sewage disposal.

GS-1140 - Trade Specialist Series**

This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer, supervise, or perform promotional, advisory, or analytical functions pertaining to the commercial distribution of goods and services. The work performed concerns, and requires a practical knowledge of, market structures and trends, competitive relationships, retail and wholesale trade practices, distribution channels and costs, business financing and credit practices, trade restrictions and controls, and principles of advertising and consumer motivation.

GS-1144 - Commissary Store Management Series*

This series includes positions the incumbents of which manage, supervise the management of, or advise on the operation of commissary stores or departments thereof, or overall commissary operations. These positions require primarily knowledge of commercial retail food merchandising and food store management.

GS-1145 - Agricultural Program Specialist Series*

This series includes positions involving work in developing, reviewing, administering, and coordinating programs for direct farmer-producer participation in production adjustment, price support, land conservation, and similar programs. The work requires a knowledge of agricultural stabilization, conservation, and related programs; farming customs and practices; crop cultivation; production and marketing methods; and related agricultural activities.

GS-1146 - Agricultural Marketing Series*

This series includes positions involving management, research, analytical, regulatory, or other specialized work concerned with the marketing of one or more agricultural commodities or products. The work requires a practical knowledge of marketing functions and practices including, for example, a knowledge of or experience with: the commodity exchanges and markets, agricultural trade, the practices and methods involved in various agricultural marketing or agribusiness operations, or a knowledge of the requirements of one or more statutory provisions relating to an agricultural marketing program.

GS-1147 - Agricultural Market Reporting Series*

This series includes all positions primarily concerned with collection, analysis and dissemination of current information on available supplies, movement, demand, prices, marketing trends, and other facts relating to the marketing of agricultural products. This work, in its various aspects, requires: (1) knowledge of the methods and practices characteristic of markets in the assigned commodity area; (2) ability to establish and maintain sound working relationships with the industry; and (3) knowledge of the physical characteristics, production factors, and quality grading or inspection criteria of the assigned group of commodities.

GS-1150 - Industrial Specialist Series*

This series includes positions that require primarily a practical knowledge of the nature and operations of an industry or industries, and the materials, facilities and methods employed by the industry or industries in producing commodities. These positions involve the administration, supervision, or performance of one or more of the following functions: (1) developing and carrying out plans for the expansion, conversion, integration or utilization of industrial production facilities, either to meet mobilization or strategic requirements or to strengthen the industrial economy; (2) furnishing technical information, assistance, and advice concerning facilities, machinery, methods, materials and standards for industrial production (that may include exploration, extraction, refining, manufacturing and processing operations); (3) developing and/or administering provisions or regulations covering such matters as materials allocation, tariffs, export-import control, etc.; (4) conducting surveys of industrial plants to evaluate capacity and potential for production of specific commodities; (5) planning, evaluating, and maintaining technical surveillance over Government production operations, either in contractor plants or in Government-operated plants; or (6) performing related functions that require essentially similar knowledge as the functions listed above.

GS-1152 - Production Control Series*

This series includes positions involved in the supervision or performance of planning, estimating, scheduling, and expediting the use of labor, machines, and materials in specific manufacturing or remanufacturing operations that employ mechanical or automated production systems and methods in the fabrication, rebuilding, overhaul, refurbishing, or repair of any type of Government-owned, controlled, or operated equipment, systems, facilities, and supplies.

GS-1160 - Financial Analysis Series*

This series includes all positions the duties of which are to direct or perform analytical and evaluative work requiring a comprehensive knowledge of: (1) the theory and principles of finance applicable to the full range of financial operations and transactions involved in the general activities of the various types of business corporate organizations; (2) the financial and management organization, operations, and practices of such corporate organizations; (3) pertinent statutory or regulatory provisions; and (4) related basic economic, accounting, and legal principles.

GS-1161 - Crop Insurance Administration Series*

This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer, supervise, or perform program development, sales, loss adjustment, or other technical work in a crop insurance program. Work in this series requires specialized knowledge of: (1) applicable Federal crop insurance principles, procedures, and techniques and (2) agriculture, agricultural practices, and related business, social and economic conditions.

GS-1162 - Crop Insurance Underwriting Series*

This series includes positions the duties of which are to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in classifying land, establishing crop insurance premiums, or other technical work related to underwriting insurance policies in a crop insurance program. Work in this series requires the application of training and knowledge in one or more agricultural or biological sciences such as agronomy, soil sciences, agricultural economics, agricultural management, horticulture, etc., as well as requiring knowledge of applicable Federal crop insurance principles, procedures and techniques.

GS-1163 - Insurance Examining Series**

This series includes positions the duties of which are to direct, supervise, or perform work involved in insuring persons or property, determining that adequate insurance to protect Government or private interests has been provided, settling claims arising under insurance contracts, or performing other similar insurance examining work when the duties performed are of a technical, nonclerical nature, requiring: (1) knowledge of insurance principles, procedures, and/or practices; the commercial insurance market; commercial insurance operations; or similar specialized insurance knowledge; (2) knowledge of pertinent statutory or regulatory provisions; related administrative regulations; and (3) some knowledge of contract law and of other laws related to the particular kind of insurance involved but not legal training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a recognized law school.

GS-1165 - Loan Specialist Series*

This series includes all positions the duties of which are to direct or perform analytical and evaluative work that requires knowledge of: (1) credit risk factors and lending principles involved in loans of specialized types granted, insured, or guaranteed by the Federal Government; (2) financial structures and practices of business organizations concerned with such loans; and (3) pertinent statutory, regulatory, and administrative provisions.

GS-1169 - Internal Revenue Officer Series*

This series includes positions involved in administering, supervising, or performing work related to collecting delinquent taxes, surveying for unreported taxes, and securing delinquent returns. The work requires application of a knowledge of: (1) general or specialized business practices; (2) pertinent tax laws, regulations, procedures, and precedents; (3) judicial processes, laws of evidence, and the interrelationship between Federal and State laws with respect to collection and assessment processes; and (4) investigative techniques and methods.

GS-1170 - Realty Series*

This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to perform, advise on, plan, or direct one or more of the following functions: (1) acquisition of real property; (2) management of real property in the administration of Federally owned, Indian-owned, leased, or consigned space or property, or (b) preparation for disposal; or (3) disposal of real property. The work requires a knowledge of real estate laws, principles, practices, and markets.

GS-1171 - Appraising Series*

This series covers positions that involve supervising or performing work in appraising and reviewing the appraisals of real or personal property or property interests. These positions require technical knowledge and skill in the application of the principles, practices, and techniques of appraisal.

GS-1173 - Housing Management Series*

This series covers positions the duties of which are: (1) to manage or assist in managing one or more family housing projects, billeting facilities, or other accommodations such as transient or permanent individual and family living quarters, dormitory facilities and restricted occupancy buildings including adjacent service facilities and surrounding grounds; and/or (2) to administer, supervise, or perform work involved in the evaluation of housing management programs, the development of administrative procedures, and the provision of technical assistance to onsite housing management. Positions in this occupation require a variety of housing management and administrative knowledge and related practical skills and abilities in such housing activities as: operations and maintenance, procurement of services, cost management and financial planning, assignments and utilization, occupancy changes and periodic inspections, scheduled and special requirement surveys, new construction and improvements, control of furnishings and equipment, master planning, and management-tenant relations. While some positions may involve administrative or indirect supervision of trade or craft work, an intensive practical knowledge of skilled trade and craft work techniques and processes is not required.

GS-1176 - Building Management Series*

This series covers positions that involve management of buildings and other facilities to provide organizations with appropriate office space and essential building services. Employees in this series typically perform one or more of the following functions: (1) applying business knowledge to directly manage, or assist in managing, the operation of one or more buildings and the surrounding property; (2) directing comprehensive building management programs; or (3) performing staff level work in the study of building management methods and the development of standard building management practices.

GS-1199 - Business and Industry Student Trainee Series

See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series, GS-0099.