Description :
Location
Ridley Park, PA
Virtual Office/Telecommute?
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Virtual Work Not Available
Shift
Revolving
Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys
Division
Network & Space Systems
Program
Combat Systems
Occupation Title
Pro Support Multi-Discipline
Skills Management Title
Support Analysis & Tech Pubs
Job Classification
GNH1P5
Job Type
Non-Management
Experience Level
Mid Level (5-15 years of experience)
Exemption Status
Exempt
Union
No
Security Clearance Required?
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Ability to Obtain Interim and/or Final Clearances (Post Start) - US Citizenship Required
Work Eligibility Required?
Yes
US Person Status Required?
Yes
Export Control Required?
Yes
Relocation Money Available?
Yes
Date Posted
07/10/2008
Closing Date
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09/08/2008
Position Description
Establishes innovative solutions to creating and implementing the design and structure of a Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) database. Serves as the focal for LSAR database integration activities with other disciplines and data repositories. Leads the establishment of LSAR type database structures, defines data element requirements, administers data within the database, develops ad-hoc reports and generates standardized reports. Reviews, assesses and documents supportability impacts associated with complex product design changes. Evaluates advanced processes or methods to document and maintain data elements applicable to provisioning. Develops models and performs analysis on complex systems and products to identify and recommend initial spares requirements. Leads and supports the evaluation and identification of product/part breakdown structures and identification of part/subassembly hierarchy needed for supportability. Develops analytical models used to perform analyzes and trade studies. Implements the design and structure of the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) database. Establishes LSAR type database structures and alignment with additional supportability functions such as S1000D data module structure, defines data element requirements, administers data within the database, develops ad-hoc reports and generates standardized reports. Reviews, assesses, and documents supportability impacts associated with complex product designs and system architectures across multiple FCS platforms and systems. Resolves issues related to data integration and data structure. Evaluates and identifies product/part breakdown structures and identifies the hierarchy of parts and subassemblies needed for supportability. Reviews, establishes, documents and maintains the data elements applicable to provisioning. Performs analysis on complex systems and products to assist in the identification of recommended spares requirements. Reviews the analytical results of others to determine adequacy and accuracy. Assists in complex trade studies and analysis. Works under minimal direction.
Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Adaptability
Fully understands and usually helps shape changes in own and fellow team leaders' work and situations; is frequently called upon to explain the logic or basis for change to other team leaders and/or interorganizational teams; is seen as an expert on information about changes affecting own and fellow team leaders' jobs; frequently mentors fellow employees and team leaders around the change. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow team leaders and external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors.
[ + ] Build Positive Relationships
Leads efforts to consistently and proactively build effective working relationships with other team leaders, managers and internal employees. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Consistently and proactively seeks and expands on original ideas from fellow team leaders, managers and other internal employees enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team, project, and/or organization goals than on own goals. Is called upon to mentor others in gaining agreement from fellow team leaders, managers and internal employees to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.
[ + ] Communication
Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Guiders others in keeping their audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames highly complex and or advanced information in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Regularly seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Mentors and advises fellow project leads and other internal employees on effective communication techniques.
[ + ] Continuous Improvement
Serves as an organizational expert on the review of unusually complex and advanced processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs within own work group and throughout the organization. Consistently and proactively identifies potential conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores unusually complex relationships between conditions and effects; distinguishes causes from symptoms and identifies primary causes. Serves as a spokesperson for the organization in generating advanced ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions. Consistently and proactively tests solutions; gathers feedback from fellow project leads, managers, internal employees on effectiveness; reviews impact on baseline measures; modifies solutions as appropriate to ensure effectiveness.
[ + ] Customer Focus
Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
[ + ] Decision Making
Consistently and proactively recognizes a wide range of highly advanced or unusually complex issues, problems, or opportunities across the organization; determines whether action is needed. Adeptly identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities; has advanced knowledge in integrating unusually complex information from a variety of sources; detects unusually complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Guides others in creating relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes; can be relied upon to formulate clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option; implements decisions reliably and initiates action within a reasonable time; includes team leaders, managers and internal employees in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
Technical
[ + ] Maint Task Analysis Process
Advanced, expert knowledge of maintenance task analysis process methodology; repair level analysis process methodology; cataloging process methodology; support equipment requirements documentation (e.g., Support Equipment Requirements Document [SERD], Support Equipment Identification Requirements [SEIR]). Advanced, expert knowledge of provisioning process methodology (e.g., change authority, engineering configuration effectivities, top-down breakdown analysis, Quantities Per Assembly [QPA], parts breakdown); facilities requirements analysis, facilities planning, facilities design standards and specifications, building codes, and facilities evaluation techniques and methodologies; and, Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation (PHS&T). Advanced, expert knowledge of Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) or other tailored supportability database systems and their associated data elements.
[ + ] Operations & Maint Support
Advanced, expert knowledge of operations, environments, and maintenance support concepts.
[ + ] Repair Level Analysis
Advanced/expert knowledge of repair level analysis process methodology to determine maintenance concept.
[ + ] Supportability
Advanced/expert knowledge of customer, regulatory agency, industry, and company policies, practices, and procedures as they apply to technical documentation, support equipment, part interchangeability, data reliability analysis and data extraction, service related problem resolution and warranty settlement processes, etc. in support of projects and programs.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree and typically 14 to 19 years' related work experience or a Master's degree with 12 to 17 years' related work experience or a PhD degree with 9 to 14 years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
Candidate must be very familiar with GEIA-STD-0007, S1000D, MIL-STD-1388-2B, and MIL-PRF-49506 development and analysis. Candidate must have had prior experience using LSA (Logistics Support Analysis)Software tools like PowerLog-J or SLICWave. Candidate must the ability to create LSA source tables from many sources (Excel, Word, etc) and be able to load them a PowerLog-J database. Must be able to perform Integrated Logistics Support planning, system support analysis, supportability trade studies, business case analysis and product lifecycle support definition. Candidate familiarity with COMPASS modeling tool is a plus. Candidate having Oracle experience or be able to write SQL statements is a plus. Candidate should have knowledge how to read and import XML data and associate schemas as well. Ability to travel is required.