Civilian job process going ‘PRO’ Published March 15, 2004 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- A new base-level central-approval authority for filling civilian positions is currently being tested at seven bases across the Air Force.The Personnel Resource Official, or PRO, will be the point of contact in an organization or at a base that lets a manager trying to fill a position know whether he or she has the funds and a position number, and ensures information is correct and forwarded with the fill action."The PRO cuts a significant number of layers once required for management to get permission to fill a simple vacancy," said Ron Orr, principal deputy assistant secretary of Air Force for installations, environment and logistics. Managers will now have a centralized internal-focal point in the organization to work all issues concerning a civilian vacancy before requesting to fill it, said Lou Fletcher, test project manager. "An added benefit will be a better product being forwarded to civilian personnel, thus eliminating rework of a requisition."“We anticipate that these tests will further improve the civilian-fill process by going from seven steps to two, and from 40 days to three-day approval for the manager to initiate a fill action, said Patti Ford, chief of process improvement and quality assurance division at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.The test runs through August at Tinker (depot maintenance); Scott AFB, Ill.; Minot AFB, N.D.; Randolph AFB, Texas; Eglin AFB, Fla., (depot maintenance); Hill AFB, Utah, (depot maintenance); and the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. (Courtesy of Air Force Personnel Center News Service)