Senior Life Cycle Material Manager Technician (Satcom)

Company Description

Founded in 1967, ADGA is a privately owned and operated Canadian company. We employ over 700 highly skilled team members who apply their knowledge and expertise in service delivery of advanced technology solutions for clients in the Defence, Security and Enterprise Computing markets across Canada.

Celebrating over 50 years in business, we are proud to be one of Canada’s most trusted professional engineering and consultancy firms. Our clients continue to rely on ADGA to provide subject matter expertise, and quality talent to fulfill their business objectives. We have done so successfully by anticipating and responding to the constant changes in technology, and evolving with agility.

Our culture of commitment, trust, and accountability guides our business, fosters our growth, and is at the core of our relationships with clients, employees and consultants. Whether your projects are complex, large-scale requirements, or dependable, professional resources to execute on time, and on budget, you can count on ADGA to deliver. We are dedicated to your success.

Job Description

ADGA has an opportunity for a Senior Life Cycle Material Management (LCMM) to support our satellite communication project.

Tasks include:

• Develop and implement Electronic Equipment Maintenance Team support strategies for operations, exercises, training, and maintenance of:
  • Communications exploitation kits.
  • Personnel digital role radios, network addressing, and soundproof headsets.
  • Public address long range acoustic device equipment.
  • Technical electronic signal exploitation database systems.
  • Primary satellite communication and geographic positioning systems.
  • Back-up gyroscopic positioning equipment.
  • Low-frequency broadcast equipment including antenna masts, high-frequency antenna dishes and domes.
  • Cellular telephony exercise equipment.
  • Ruggedized compact computers and rack chassis modules parts.
  • Any other gear or software, as directed by the client.
• Advise the client about problem reports, unsatisfactory conditions, lack of material inventory, and derelict equipment.
• Work with others, learn on-the-job, and support transfer-in equipment and technical data packages to Defence Resource Management Information System (DRMIS) distribution accounts.
• Work with the Electronic Equipment Management Team around the National Capital Region with DND security policy and procedure requirements.
• Work with others, learn on-the-job, and support transfer-out of equipment and technical data packages from development/integration projects.
• Sustain present electronic equipment throughout its life cycle.
• Prepare Bills of Material, “where-used” Equipment Reference Hierarchical Configuration data, Configuration Change Requests and Engineering Change Request.
• Administer software licenses.
• Assist end users requesting information on equipment specs and provide product support for centrally managed items
• Determine equipment entitlements from Army orders
• Check DRMIS for distribution allocations, serialized items' locations to obtain monthly snapshot views of deployment quantities/locations
• Document spreadsheets of item distribution allocations, serialized items, cross-referenced with government catalog hyperlinks.
• Follow-up with original equipment manufacturers for Return Material Authorizations, Product Discontinuance, and equipment status at 3rd line service centers.

Job Requirements:
Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a Life Cycle Material Management environment or related experience
• Experience in preparation of technical documents, specification, checklists, bulletins and equipment disposal plans.
• Must hold or be eligible to obtain a Federal Government Secret (Level II) clearance, VCR and controlled goods certificate.
• Experience liaising with stakeholders to support the life cycle management of equipment.
• Experience developing briefing notes and presentations to address technical and logistical issues pertaining to equipment.
• Experience providing advice, guidance and recommendations on technical issues to support the decision making of senior management.
• The ideal candidate will have 6 years of experience performing some/all of the following tasks:
  • Using a recognized process framework or using an LCMM Handbook.
  • Working on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software (such as SAP) for equipment cataloguing.
  • Working on ERP for maintaining and developing checklists and coordinating equipment distribution.
  • Evaluating and providing solutions to deficiencies in Technical Failure Reports and Unsatisfactory Condition Reports.
  • Analyzing Statements of Operational Requirements. (SOR)
  • Reviewing Technical Data Packages (TDP)
  • Planning and executing equipment demilitarization and disposal.
• The following experience would be considered an asset:
  • Experience providing satellite communication product support.
  • Experience working on Military Command and Control systems
  • College diploma in Electrotechnology or Electrical Engineering (Bachelor level)

Additional Information

ADGA commits to putting diversity into action to build a stronger, more representative team and help our customers and communities thrive. We are a proudly Canadian company, striving to further diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and provide every individual with the opportunities and resources to help them reach their full potential.

ADGA s'engage à mettre la diversité en action pour bâtir une équipe plus forte et plus représentative et aider nos clients et nos communautés à prospérer. Nous sommes une entreprise fièrement canadienne. Nous nous engageons pour promouvoir la diversité, l'équité et l'inclusion dans le milieu de travail et d'offrir à chaque personne les possibilités et les ressources qui lui permettront de réaliser son plein potentiel.