Logistician - Integrated Product Support

Job Posting

KSAs : Experience demonstrating knowledge of the twelve Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements (Design Influence, Integrated Product Support Planning, Product Support & Sustainment, Supportability Analysis, Reliability and Maintainability Analysis, Configuration Management, and Technical / Product Data Management) and the 2021 interim policy memo for Information Technology System Continuous Support. Knowledgeable of system cost, schedule, performance, life cycle management and supportability requirements IAW DoD Directive 5000.01 and DoD Instruction 5000.91. Ability to develop effective and affordable product support strategies throughout the life cycle for weapons, materiel, or information systems, as addressed in the DoD 5000 series. Ability to develop and implement outcome-based product support strategies that optimize system readiness & life cycle cost affordability. Knowledgeable of the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements to optimize system suitability, affordability, reliability, availability, maintainability, and operational effectiveness throughout the system life cycle. Ability to evaluate life-cycle sustainment strategies to determine if they meet warfighter product support requirements. Understanding of the logistics products, services and technology through the 12 IPS Elements to sustain system operational readiness. Ability to develop and document a product support strategy, including Business Case Analysis (as appropriate), in a Life Cycle Sustainment Plan which describes efforts to ensure a system's design and develop an integrated product support package to achieving life cycle sustainment outcome metrics.

Principal duties : Develop and implement a comprehensive product support strategy. Use appropriate predictive analysis and modeling tools that can improve material availability and reliability, increase operational availability rates, and reduce operation and sustainment cost; Conduct appropriate cost analyses to validate the product support strategy, including cost-benefit analyses. as outlined in Office of Management and Budget Circular A-94; Recommend performance requirements and resource allocations across product support integrators and product support providers as necessary to optimize implementation of the product support strategy; Evaluate product support arrangements between the product support integrators and product support providers to determine if the arrangements are consistent with the product support strategy; Revalidate existing business-case analysis performed in support of a product support strategy; Evaluate a product support strategy to determine the extent to which if includes small business participation; Review product support arrangements for a description of how such arrangements will ensure efficient procurement, management, and allocation of Government-owned parts inventories in order to prevent unnecessary procurements of such parts; and Identify obsolete parts that are included in the specifications of the system being acquired and determine suitable replacements for such parts.

Location : Newport, RI (On-Site / Office)

Group ID : 10126936