Senior Product Management Support Scientist

Overview

LMI is seeking an experienced Senior Product Management Support Scientist to support our DoD customer (USAMMDA) with the advanced development, fielding, maintenance and sustainment of military medical equipment. This hybrid position (partial onsite, partial remote work) supports our client at Fort Detrick, MD and our LMI office is within 10 miles of Fort Detrick. 

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers’ unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.

LMI offers a generous compensation package with excellent benefits that start the first day of employment. Business casual dress, flex time, and tuition reimbursement are a few of our many work-life benefits available to our employees. 

USAMMDA is the largest Department of Defense's (DoD) medical materiel development activity designed to protect and preserve the lives of Warfighters.  USAMMDA develops, modernizes, procures, and fields new drugs, vaccines, medical devices and support equipment that enhances readiness, ensuring the provision of the highest quality medical care to the DoD and maximizing survival of medical casualties on the battlefield.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of assigned products and assemblages (Sets, Kits, and Outfits (SKOs)), to include sustainment. Coordinate with other directorates and outside agencies to formally transition items through the lifecycle, to include transition to sustainment.  
• Manage configuration control, ensure successful integration and interoperability, and champion life-cycle management of products by building integrated product team partnerships with other DoD organizations.   
• Provide technical input, build slides, and draft documents (e.g. Life Cycle Sustainment plans (LCSPs), Maintenance support plans, and Sustainment Strategies) to support acquisition presentations and documentation in support of major milestones, program reviews, and major leadership decisions.  
• Assist in the development of contract documentation to include but not limited to market research, acquisition strategy, performance work statement, cost estimate, purchase request, justification & approval, or other program presentations. The market analysis will include a clear understanding of product survivability, and market viability.  
• Develop systems engineering, program, and acquisition documentation in support of major acquisition decisions for assigned products and assemblages, as required. Develop and implement a system engineering management process to guide the development and management of a requirements-driven architecture through the entire system engineering life cycle for assigned products and assemblages. 
• Develop and manage a test program that is consistent and aligns with the Program-wide TEMP for assigned products. Compile and document plans, processes, test objectives, test results, and other documentation as required for assigned products and assemblages. 
• Coordinate with required external program offices to establish required systems integration, communication and security between all key components and sub-components to effectively satisfy program requirements. 
• Continue to analyze assigned products and assemblages tracking issues, complaints, safety alerts, equipment recalls, and prepare documents drafting recommendations and proposed course(s) of action. Provide written technical opinions to guide the decision making process. 
• Lead Contractor site visits, monitoring performance and quality standards, and providing technical oversight during all life cycle management phases. 
• Participate in discussions to analyze and interpret trends with current practices to ensure inclusion of the most appropriate equipment and supplies in various assemblage publications. 
• Participate in various discussions involving new or replacement medical equipment to ensure proper parallel planning and sharing of information for timely development, review, and publication of assemblage documents. 
• For all identified products and assemblages, conduct a systems analysis to include communications interface, data modeling, systems security, information assurance, patient privacy, and program assessment to support integration planning and systems program management. 
• Participate in the engineering requirements generation process with the Army Medical Department Center and School (AMEDD C&S), Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE), Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate (CDID), and other capability developers for assigned products and assemblages, as required. 
• Conduct internal project requirements analysis for assigned products and assemblages to derive lower level requirements and system specifications with traceability from system specifications, through lower-level requirements, to the end user requirements. 
• Assist in development of the Program Objective Memorandum (POM), spend plans, cost estimating, and other cost analysis requirements. 
• Provide direct support of uniformed Soldiers during test, evaluation, training exercises and warfighter assessments.  This includes all levels of review and oversight of equipment and other supported systems on the ground and in the air.  
• Perform logistical analysis and analyze materiel fielding as part of medical logistics project management. 
• Analyze medical equipment based on maintenance data, usage data, technology standards, and life cycle data. 
• Maintain full accountability of managed products and assemblages to include confirming the receipt of end items (with basic issue items), non-expendables, durables, expendables, and the support packages at the gaining installation ensuring the accountability of equipment is maintained throughout the fielding process.  
• Be able to research and analyze the Table of Distribution and Allowances (TDA) and the Table of Organization and Equipment (TOE) and make investment decisions in support of force structure, using the following databases as required: Force Management System Web Site (FMSWEB), Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW) (applications such as Lead Materiel Integrator Decision Support Tool (LMI DST)), Army Equipping Enterprise System (AE2S), Global Combat Support System-Army (GCCS-Army), Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), Medical Services Information Logistics System (MEDSILS), Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics System (TEWLS) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) supply websites (such as DLA Troop Support Medical Master Online (DMMOnline)).  
• Develop and implement the logistical strategic planning process for the provisioning of the subsystems that make up the end capability.  
• Perform multiple logistics actions to support the acceptance of materiel into the Army, Navy, and Air Force wholesale system to include requesting for a national stock number (NSN), and when needed, supporting on type classification and a new Line Item Number (LIN), and assisting in the preparation of the TOE Basis of Issue Plan, and Feeder Data. 
• Prepare Requests for Information, Logistics Support Agreements, Task Assignment Memorandums, Memorandums of Notification, Letters of Instruction, and other fielding documentation as required to support all fielding actions. 
• Prepare and provide analysis and recommendations to improve fielding processes upon request. 
• Assist and/or provide technical guidance for the pre-processing, staging, inventory, and hand-off of materiel to gaining units. 
• Inspect materiel at the production facility prior to each assemblage delivery and initiate discrepancy-reporting procedures, as necessary. Coordinate these activities with the PM and COR for the procurement action.  
• Submit DD Form 361, Discrepancy in Shipment Report IAW AR-55-38, Reporting of Transportation Discrepancies in Shipment for any damages identified as transportation related, in coordination with the local installation transportation officer. Ensure the gaining unit secures the defective materiel until notification of appropriate disposition by the consignor when applicable. Determine the disposition and execute the corrective action with the approval of the PdM. 
• Prepare and deliver a Materiel Fielding After Action Report (AAR) to the Government upon completion of each fielding mission, as requested. The AAR will include a summary of events, all issues/concerns encountered, corrective actions taken and verified, and those corrective actions still in process (follow-up actions). This report will include copies of all documentation (Customer Documentation Package) given to the gaining activity during hand-off. 
• Coordinate re-supply requirements as needed with supported units and local support agencies, (i.e. local Medical Treatment Facilities, local Medical Logistics units) as required. 
• Maintain knowledge and usage in the Army’s web-based applications used to manage the life cycle of major items of equipment (such as Cloud Equipping (cQuiP) program, formerly known as the Standard Study Number-Line Item Number Automated Management and Integrating System (SLAMIS)). Further information can be found in AR 71-32.  
• Personnel performing tasks in this area will provide subject matter expertise in the areas of iDOSE/CDSS, Medical Evacuation Systems, Biomedical Systems Engineering, Physical/Biological Sciences, Software Systems Engineering, Paramedic/Emergency Medicine, Network Engineering, and Software Acquisition Management.  Personnel performing these tasks will possess a level of familiarity with Fitness and Rehabilitation Sciences, Network Engineering and DoD RMF requirements.   

Qualifications

• Education: Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering or Related Field
• Experience: 10 years   
• Ability to obtain NACI (background investigation).
• Seven (7) years of experience with medical product development, DoD T&E requirements, and regulatory approval processes is preferred.
• Apply interpersonal skills and knowledge of the DoD 5000 to products being supported.   
• Integrating the DoD acquisition processes with the FDA regulatory processes and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) process.  
• Expert level knowledge of Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS); PPBE; and DoD 5000 processes, including adaptive acquisition framework pathways, to support strategic analysis and acquisition planning for Army and DHA ACAT designated medical programs.   
• Utilize MS Office, to include MS Outlook, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and MS Word, at an intermediate level.