Senior Life Cycle Management Specialist

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A Public Client is seeking Life Cycle Management Specialists to support Live Fire and Simulation Capabilities. The role involves supporting the management of multiple simulation and live fire target systems, ensuring effective coordination throughout their life cycles in accordance with contract requirements.

Mandatory requirements

• University (PhD, Graduate, Undergraduate, Degree
• Minimum of 36 months of combined experience, within 60 months, performing 7 or more out of the following 14tasks:
  – Prepare technical statements of requirements and draft specifications and purchasing descriptions
  – Review disposal certificates, make recommendations for disposal, update maintenance handbooks, parts list and operating manuals
  – Investigate Unsatisfactory Condition Reports (UCRs) and Technical Failure Reports (TFRs)
  – Define standards and criteria related to equipment or systems maintenance
  – Review and update materiel/equipment specifications
  – Prepare, modify or update specifications and drawings
  – Prepare, modify or update Technical Instructions and Orders
  – Perform configuration management
  – Evaluate existing systems
  – Perform analysis of maintenance, repair and overhaul data
  – Prepare data for initial provisioning and repair parts scaling
  – Prepare repair procedures, maintenance schedules and technical data
  – Prepare support cost option analysis for systems and equipment
  – Advise on the disposition of obsolete Technical Publications
• Minimum 24 months of combined experience, within the past 96 months, performing 4 or more out of the following 7 tasks in an Enterprise Resource Management system (e.g. SAP, DRMIS):
  – Manage material stock holding
  – Catalogue parts
  – Set up parts scaling in the supply system
  – Manage a Repair & Overhaul Program
  – Generate Stock Overview reports
  – Create equipment checklists
  – Manage parts and equipment disposal activities

Optional requirements 

• Relevant Professional Certification
• 10+ years of Relevant experience

General tasks

• Develop and maintain equipment checklists;
• Coordinate quality assurance (QA) on new equipment by working closely with the LCMM;
• Coordinate the distribution of equipment within client’s department. Distribution of equipment must be tracked to the end user to ensure visibility on the status of distribution and quality of service;
• Provide written maintenance instructions to address support requirements (in garrison or deployed) for new and in-service equipment and systems;
• Perform technical analysis and interpretation of Statement Operational Requirements (SOR);
• Initiate proposals for developmental projects which address stated requirements and fall within the limits of available resources;
• Develop technical data and inspection standards that govern fabrication of prototypes;
• Provide input to the DND Technical Authority (TA) when preparing Statement of Works (SOWs) and technical specifications;
• Asist the TA with any pre-tender conferences required to clarify the specifications to ensure that complete and satisfactory proposals are received;
• Suggest test methods and procedures to establish failure modes and measures to correct them;
• Suggest instructions to overcome deficiencies caused by faulty operation or maintenance;
• Suggesting and recommending system modifications which improve or maintain a system’s effectiveness;
• Reviewing and amending Client’s assigned systems IAW with policies;
• Assisting the TA with the revision of Technical Data Packages (TDP) to incorporate design changes made to a system during its life cycle;
• Maintaining a sound knowledge of the assigned system operations to function as technical advisor to the Equipment Management Team (EMT) and in interdepartmental committees and meetings;
• Assisting the LCMM with his/her assigned system;
• Reviewing the latest engineering data available from sources;
• Consulting, advising, and providing input on occasion to other directorates in the preparation of SORs against which systems must be designed, developed, procured, tested, evaluated, and accepted;
• Providing technical services to assess whether equipment complies with Controlled Technology Access and Transfer regulations as well as International Traffic in Arms regulations.
• Recommending to the Technical Authority whether an item is a controlled good;
• Ensuring that the Demilitarisation Code (DMC) assigned is valid and changing it if it is determined to be incorrect;
• Ensuring that the decision is recorded in information systems (Canadian Government Catalogue of Materiel (CGCM), DRMIS and Records, Document, and Information Management System (RDIMS);
• Providing direction to the TA for the disposal of obsolete equipment in accordance with CTAT and ITAR regulations and Environment Canada and Director General Land Equipment Program Management (DGLEPM) Environmental Health and Safety Management System (EHSMS) policies affecting the storage and disposal of equipment containing hazardous materials;
• Assessing the demilitarization requirements and producing a demilitarization strategy;
• Preparing disposal plans and technical demilitarization instructions as required;
• Consulting with the Repair and Disposal (R&D) sections, directly or via the Supply Manager, to verify that demilitarization is performed.
• Assist the LCMM and engineering staff in the completion of the cataloguing to include the LRUs and spare parts held by the vendor.

Administrative Tasks

• Create, revise and update documents using the Microsoft O365 Office Suite and the associated applications within the Suite and ensure the following:
  – that they are named in accordance with the document naming convention that will be provided as part of the onboarding process; and
  – that they are saved within the appropriate data repository (e.g. RDIMS, SharePoint)
• Create, revise and update Material Management Records using DRMIS;
• Create, revise and update the section planner during the weekly team meetings and as when required; and
• Create, revise and update Handover Notes in accordance with MGI 1-41 Handover Plan
• Process for the duration of the contract term.