Logistician (Multiple Available)

Role: Logistician

Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Education/Certifications: BA/BS or higher in a related field may substitute for 3 years of experience

Years of Experience: 6+ years of working experience in the Life Cycle Logistics field  and familiarity with Defense Acquisition; MA/MS can substitute for 3 years of experience (3+ years total); additional 6 years of experience in related field can substitute for education (12+ years total)

Clearance Level & Investigation: Secret

Job Description:

• Serve as the resident acquisition logistics and management expert providing analytically based life cycle support recommendations across every phase of system acquisition and life cycle.
• Assist the Government with developing, reviewing, documenting, and resolving issues pertaining to Integrated Product Support elements such as design interface, sustaining engineering, maintenance, manpower, supply support, training and training support, packaging, handling, storage and transportation, technical data, and facilities.
• Assist the Government in developing, updating, and reviewing acquisition and logistic documents such as acquisition strategy plans, lifecycle sustainment plans, performance work statements, and item unique identification plans.
• Support the Government in the development and review of Acquisition logistic documents and provide logistical input in the preparation/writing and coordination of documentation required for program reviews; milestone decisions; program and budget submissions; cost estimates, including program office estimates; cost, schedule, and technical risk evaluations; Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports; Congressional inquiries; audits; other programmatic documentation, program schedules, information papers, and briefings.
• Review, analyze, prepare, or update the following types of ILS studies, analyses, and program documentation in the areas of, but not limited to, supply, maintenance, transportation, sustainment engineering, data management, configuration management, manpower, personnel, training, habitability, facilities, computer resources, obsolescence and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS), survivability, environmental, safety, occupational health, protection of critical program information (CPI), anti-tamper provisions, and information technology.
• Support the Government in identifying and developing logistic budget requirements such as transportation, training, manpower, parts, maintenance, care of supplies in storage and postproduction software support in support of program objective memorandums.
• Assist the Government in planning, documenting, and coordinating material release/type classification of systems IAW AR 770-3.
• Provide input and recommendations using the logistics management information tools for analysis product assurance, asset visibility, and manufacturing data (e.g., Logistics Management Program (LMP), RAID Contractor Logistics Support (CLS), Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS), Catalog Ordering Logistics Tracking System (COLTS), RepairData, and other Government utilized approved databases); must be knowledgeable of supply requirements and assists in supply support for production, overhaul, repair, or other operations for items requiring special handling; maintain and file all supporting documents to the property book.
• Track and manage CONUS/OCONUS equipment utilizing Government approved Accountable Property System of Records (APSR) such as DPAS, LMP, COLTS, RepairData,  and RAID CLS.
• Assist the Government in inputting and maintaining in Government approved APSRs to account for all assets.
• Assist the Government in conducting property inventories and preparing hand receipts for Government approval.
• Assist the Government in support functions to include monitoring, coordinating, editing, and processing of requisitions and material release orders for CONUS or OCONUS operations; updating associated tracking systems; furnishing supply status; identifying and resolving system problems; receiving, reviewing, processing and coordinating excess reports and listings; and providing associated technical and logistics studies/reports.
• Monitor systems inventory utilizing a Government approved APSR and make recommendations for item procurement and disposition. 
• Identify and manage parts and supplies to include spares, repair parts, and consumables necessary to establish or maintain equipment and replenish stocks used to operate, maintain, and repair Program Offices’ equipment. 
• Perform spare and repair parts determinations.
• Annotate disposed equipment and materials in accordance with AR 710-2, Chapter 2 and DA PAM 710-2-1, Chapter 3 on a DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice/Shipping Document, or DD Form 1348, DoD Single Line Item Requisition System Document. 
• Plan the disposal of equipment and materials to an approved disposition location and provide a turn in receipt copy to the Government.
• Assist the Government with coordination with DoD depot facilities to work deport core logistics and Public Private Partnership requirements for systems.
• Assist the Government in conducting core depot assessments of depot capacities and support developing requests for facility space, equipment, and organization requirements.
• Assist the Government with the management of the Program Offices’ provisioning technical data using the Government-approved software application such as Power Log-J and loading provisioning data to the Government-approved program such as the Army’s Logistics Modernization Program. 
• Support the Government in the validation and verification of program of instructions, Technical Manuals (TMs), and TM supplements, including reviewing validation and verification plans. 
• Review TMs to ensure accuracy, clarity, completeness, and correct media format and compliance with technical and Government standards (e.g., MIL-STD 40051-2C, MIL-HDBK 1222F, MIL-PRF 63002L and MIL-PRF 32216A).
• Monitor changes relevant to the product baseline and ensure updates are provided to the Government technical writer and incorporated into TMs.
• Develop and update supportability analysis such as level of repair analysis, core logistics analysis, core depot assessment, performance-based logistics, analysis of alternatives and sensitivity analysis.
• Provide input for core depot assessments, business case analysis (BCA), and cost benefit analysis (CBA).
• Review, analyze, prepare, or update fielding support studies, analyses, and program documentation, including, but not limited to: fielding plans and fielding schedules; site surveys; identification of actual or potential problems with recommendations for viable alternative solutions; preliminary site survey reports for sensor and component requirements, local civil engineering support, impact of Aerostat installation on the military installation’s security program; site survey validation reports and associated site specific designs; site acceptance testing (SAT) of Aerostat equipment.

Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of working experience in the Life Cycle Logistics field and familiarity with Defense Acquisition.
• BA/BS or higher.
• Additional 6 years of experience in a related field may be substituted for education.
• A Master’s degree or higher in a related field may be substituted for 3 years of experience.