Air Force Personnel Center stands up Operating Locations

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  • By Kenny Pruitt
  • Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  Beginning April 1, the Air Force Personnel Center is establishing operating locations to provide reach-back capability and on-site personnel specialists for the Air Force Materiel Command and the Air Force District of Washington Large Civilian Centers. The transition to AFPC operating locations integrates staffing processes for 50 percent of the Air Force civilian workforce currently employed by AFMC and AFDW.

The existing Civilian Personnel staffing workload, managed by Large Civilian Centers at Hill AFB, Utah; Robins AFB, Ga.; Tinker AFB, Okla.; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; and Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., will transition to the newly established AFPC operating locations under AFPC leadership. The first operating location will stand-up at Tinker AFB April 1, followed by the Air Force District of Washington July 1 and Hill AFB, Robins AFB and Wright-Patterson AFB in 2011.

Each operating location will continue civilian staffing responsibilities but will have specific insight into the local mission and be able to forecast surges in workload. Commanders and customers at the Large Civilian Centers will continue to receive direct staffing assistance for their installations.

"With an on-site AFPC presence at the operating locations, AFPC will have first-hand knowledge of trends and requirements to ensure success in civilian staffing at these Large Civilian Centers," said Maj. Gen. K.C. McClain, AFPC commander. "Our expectation is no degradation in the hiring process since the same people will be doing the work."

Many of the Large Civilian Center staff members will transition to the operating locations and become new members of AFPC. These personnelists understand the processes and mission for their respective location and have the full reach-back capability to AFPC, further enhancing the effectiveness of civilian personnel processes.

As the new operating locations are established, the teams will seamlessly continue to produce job referral lists, extend job offers, perform in-processing for new civilian employees, and provide staffing advice to managers, among many other functions. The transition process should be transparent to customers.

"This is one of many initiatives AFPC is taking to meet the needs of our customers," said General McClain. "AFPC will work jointly with AFMC and AFDW to develop the best practices in staffing processes, while meeting their mission requirements and building a better Air Force."

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