Life Support Maintenance Manager III / Excursion and Electronica with Security Clearance

Location: JEB Little Creek – Fort Story, Virginia Beach, VA. Clearance required: SECRET.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for maintenance, inventory, and tracking of NSW Divers’ Life Support Systems (DLSS).
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for the use and sustainment of U.S. Navy approved diving materiel and hyperbaric chamber systems; advise on development and revision of diving techniques and procedures (DTPs).
• Provide direct supervisory oversight of two contractor positions: Diving Maintenance Technician III / Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) Technician / Supply Database Specialist / Personal Property Custodian Lvl III.
• Ensure personnel adhere to assigned duties and contractual requirements; manage work schedules, leave, and ensure full staffing coverage.
• Delegate tasks based on individual skills and operational priorities, ensuring efficient use of personnel resources.
• Conduct scheduled and unscheduled preventative and corrective maintenance as mandated by OPNAV Instruction 4790 scheduled in 3M for all E-UBA and EC-UBA systems, Haskel oxygen, N2O2, and HeO2 charging booster pumps and kits, diagnostic test equipment and tools, buoyancy compensators, depth gauges, pressure gauges, underwater communications equipment, full face diving masks, Diving Life Support Systems (DLSS) associated equipment and NAVSEA Certified Life Support Systems.
• Assist in maintaining, writing, execution, and review of Re-entry Control Packages (REC) for NSW recompression chamber systems.
• Monitor diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA and hyperbaric chamber systems inventory and readiness databases to ensure proper inventory accounting and readiness reporting for NSWG-2 and subordinate commands; report status to the NSWG-2 Master Diver and LOGSUPPU Combat Systems Department Head monthly.
• Monitor physical accounting of diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA, and hyperbaric chamber system inventory at least annually; obtain and maintain access to ELMS/DPAS or other designated government authoritative database to monitor inventories and report discrepancies/shortfalls.
• Maintain a current library of all publications, instructions, and messages related to diving materiel and hyperbaric chamber systems in use by NSWG-2 and subordinate commands.
• Assist coordination of issue and receipt of diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA, hyperbaric chamber systems and related materiel.
• Assist coordination of diving materiel and DLSS maintenance and repair conducted by outside entities; develop scopes of work, obtain service quotes, schedule and track status of maintenance/repair by outside activities, provide status updates as required.
• Assist with short and long-term maintenance plans.
• Assist phase replacement, technical refresh, and disposition of diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA, and hyperbaric recompression systems throughout NSWG-2.
• Assist coordination of training related to use and sustainment of diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA, and hyperbaric systems including oxygen worker; provide after-action reports as required; assist development of short and long-range training plans.
• Assist development of comprehensive curriculum for end-user training on E-UBA and EC-UBA to qualify E-UBA and EC-UBA maintenance technicians; deliver training and certification programs to NSW personnel ensuring operational proficiency; maintain training records and provide feedback and recommendations for continuous improvement; travel to conduct training and maintenance at remote sites.
• Assist development of comprehensive curriculum for end-user training on E-UBA and EC-UBA to prepare E-UBA and EC-UBA diving supervisors for final evaluation, test, and board; travel to conduct training at remote sites.
• Conduct training in maintenance and repair of mixed-gas underwater breathing apparatuses and hyperbaric chambers in use by NSWG-2 and subordinate commands.
• Coordinate submission of air samples to the Divers Compressed Air Testing (DCAT) program and delivery of related results; immediately notify NSWG-2 Master Diver, LOGSUPPU Command Diving Officer and subordinate commands whenever an air sample is found unsafe; coordinate removal of affected compressor from service.
• Assist coordination of certification of diving equipment, E-UBA, EC-UBA, and hyperbaric chamber systems.
• Forecast ordering of all necessary preventative and corrective maintenance parts for NSW recompression chamber systems and associated equipment.
• Assist Work Center Supervisor with management of equipment parts and consumables to maintain Diving Department’s Diver Life Support Equipment and ancillary equipment.
• Process requests, maintain records, and manage issue, turn-in, gain, and loss of capital assets, minor property, and operational consumables (OPCON) assigned to Dive Division.
• Conduct monthly inventories, bi-annual inventories, and annual inventories of gear managed in ELMS/DPAS by NSWG-2 N4.
• Investigate and process paperwork for missing, lost, stolen or damaged property.
• Assist with customer service, issue turn-in, issue, lost, stolen, and/or damaged documents (DD Form 1149, DD Form 1150, DD Form 1348, DD Form 200) and receipt of diving equipment.
• Check and track dive equipment requests on NIPR/SIPR network and assist in procuring and issuing dive equipment with SEAL Team representatives.
• Obtain factory-trained certifications for E-UBA and EC-UBA as needed or required (costs and travel financial responsibility of NSW); prior E-UBA experience not required.

Requirements

• Navy Dive School Certified (NEC 5342 / M1DV, or higher).
• Minimum eight years’ experience as a certified 5342 / M1DV, or higher diver.
• Navy Instructor Certified (NEC 9502).
• Three years MK-16 Maintenance Technician Experience.
• Three years MK-25 Maintenance Technician Experience.
• Qualified as a Maintenance & Material Management (3M) Maintenance Person, 3M Quality Assurance Craftsman, and 3M Work Center Supervisor.
• Qualified in accordance with NAVEDTRA 43910-(Series).
• Possess factory trained certification for diving equipment within inventory, DLSS Re-Entry Control (REC) Supervisor, and Oxygen Clean System Worker.
• Minimum of three (3) years NSW experience.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with others, both verbally and in writing.
• Maintain forklift license up to 6,000lb capacity.
• Meet requirements to obtain and check out government vehicles / CESE for use in official duties.
• Able to obtain and maintain NSW Coxswain qualification.