Operations and Maintenance Manager
About The Position
This position is responsible for validating asset availability while planning military tests, and ensuring it is in the right place at the right time once test plans are approved. The role involves managing a team of electronics technicians, computer operators, and field service engineers. The manager will direct the overall operations, maintenance, repair, administration, and logistics of the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range (DATR), supporting various missions including aerospace flight research, technology integration, space exploration concepts, airborne remote sensing, science missions, and emergency communications for the International Space Station (ISS). Duties also include reviewing task order requests, supporting proposal preparation, overseeing minor construction actions, facility management, tracking employee training, maintaining inventory and asset reports, ensuring customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance, verifying team performance and training, and analyzing program risks and performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 7 years of job-related experience; 15 years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
- Currently Secret Clearance
- Managing Government Property and Inventory, including repair parts
- Deploying and tracking assets used in military test exercises
Nice To Haves
- 3 years of supervisory or management experience
- Technical familiarity with the equipment maintained at the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range (DATR)
Responsibilities
- Validating asset availability while planning military tests, and ensuring it is in the right place at the right time once test plans are approved
- Managing team (e.g., electronics technicians, computer operators, field service engineers)
- Directs the overall operations, maintenance, repair, administration and logistics of the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range (DATR)
- Supports operations and missions to include aerospace flight research and technology integration, space exploration concepts, airborne remote sensing and science missions, and emergency communications for the International Space Station (ISS)
- Reviews task order requests and supports preparation of technical and cost proposals for the customer testing exercises
- Oversee minor construction actions (e.g. – installing conduit, brackets, antennae, gypsum board and paining) as required by NASA ensuring adherence to requirements
- Facility management of NASA assigned spaces ensuring compliance to requirements
- Tracks and manages employee training as required by NASA
- Maintains inventory and produces reports of the government provided assets
- Ensures customer satisfaction, safety, quality, and other regulatory and contractual requirements
- Verifies team member performance goals are met and validates that all required certification and training are maintained, including developing and maintaining employeer training plans for each position held under supervision
- Work with the management team and technical staff to analyze program risks and performance for management and stakeholders
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
