Equipment Specialist at DCS Corporation

DCS Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Equipment Specialist providing  support to the  Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/PEO Digital Directorate Aerospace Management Sytems Divison (AFLCMC/HBA). The Aerospace Management Systems Division Programs develops, delivers, and sustains air traffic management, CNS/ATM avionics expertise, and weather sensing/forecast capabilities enabling military, civil, and allied and foreign military sales customers to achieve their mission.

This position will support the Aloha/Air Route Surveillance Radar Version 4 Replacement – Hawaii (ARSR4R-HI) program. This program will support the replacement of the current Hawaii Air Route Surveillance Radar Version 4 (ARSR-4) to include prototype development, test, site preparation, and installation. The replacement radar will address DoD capability gaps driven by new threats and provide dual use for Hawaii for Air Traffic Control (ATC) and weather monitoring.  It is a key component of the USAF's defense of Hawaii as a high priority mission for the DoD and supports NORAD/NORTHCOM and PACAF/INDOPACOM Deterrence Initiatives.

This is a full time position located at Tinker Air Force Base, OK.

Essential Job Functions:

In this role you will provide Equipment Specialist support that will provide CM activities and apply logistics best commercial practices and DoD directed concepts such as Performance-Based Logistics (PBL), public private partnering, and supply chain management. Perform configuration management tasks and apply the principles, criteria, and procedures of CM in support of systems and equipment acquired or sustained. 

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Review and recommend changes to program-unique specifications to include system specifications, development specifications, and product specifications for both hardware and software, for proper format, content, and compliance with program requirements and standards.
• Provide technical support and analysis on field, depot and modification program issues.
• Apply Agile and/or Waterfall development methodologies to both hardware and software projects.
• Provide technical maintenance and TO support to users; regularly by telephone, email, and local meetings or irregularly by direct field-support.
• Prepare or assist with preparation of Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTOs) to support configuration changes and inspections.
• Assist and execute the sustainment of the Electronic Technical Management System (ETIMS).
• Perform or assist in performing technical order (TO) validation/verification (Val/Ver).
• Develop Work Unit Codes and populate the Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS).
• Provide input to the Technical Order Life Cycle Management Plan (TOLCMP).
• Support execution of Configuration Control Boards (CCB) and Engineering Review Board (ERB) directives by partnering with the Technical Content Managers to manage the publication and distribution of TO changes.
• Support Engineering Plans and Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) baselines by evaluating configuration management tasks such as Discrepancy Reports (DRs), AFTO 22, AFTO 252, and performance metrics.
• Assist with the development of technical drawing packages (TDP), system-specific and standard, in support of configuration management.
• Support the configuration control function to include receipt, dissemination, processing, tracking, and providing recommendations for the final disposition of all baseline technical artifacts.
• Review change proposal management impacts, and compliance with Government requirements; provide recommendations for Government review and disposition; assist in the preparation and conduct of CCB and related subordinate boards; and assist in maintaining change proposal files and providing historical information.
• Attend and support Functional Configuration Audits (FCA), Physical Configuration Audits (PCA), and Compliance Audits (CAs), to include auditing hardware and software Configuration Items (CIs), disposition and tracking of action items and assist with preparation of the minutes.
• Assist with technical interchange meetings and the preparation of minutes from the meetings.
• Monitor modification parts listings to identify items not loaded in the National Stock Number (NSN) system.
• Process non-stock listed items into the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) system.
• Monitor and process parts lists utilized under contractor logistics support for provisioning and configuration management planning and documentation.
• Access system data within various sources/tools such as Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS) to assist in the development of OSS&E reporting data and documentation.
• Maintain Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) inventory lists to include physical inventories.
• Provide Product Lifecycle Management assistance through technical documentation to mitigate Mission Impaired Capability Awaiting Parts (MICAP) status.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

A High School Diploma plus 16 years of experience, 8 of which must be in the DoD or a Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of experience, 5 of which must be in the DoD. 

An adjudicated DoD Secret Security clearance on the First Day of employment.

Radar experience highly desired.