Technical Specialist - ONR Tech Solutions

Position

• Location:
  
  Arlington, VA
• Security Clearance:
  Active Clearance Required - U.S. citizenship required
• Salary: $130,000 - $180,000 Depending on Experience and Education
• Travel: 20%
• Benefits: SURVICE Engineering offers a total rewards package to include competitive salaries, comprehensive insurance options, paid time off, 401k, flexible spending, tuition reimbursement.

SURVICE Engineering is currently seeking a Technical Specialist to support our Washington Area Operation. The applicant shall provide U.S. Navy S&T Technical Services to the ONR Global Director of Tech Solutions. These services require the performance of technical analysis to enhance the government's ability to make highly informed decisions regarding prototype technology investments across a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines.

The primary focus is to evaluate technical proposals, assist the government in identifying technological merits, and represent the Tech Solutions Program during coordination with stakeholders.

• Recommend validation steps to mathematically quantify the value of new technology requests received from the Fleet/Force and network with ONR Program Officers, other technology SMEs, ONRG Science Advisors, and &DE developers to assess the state of the requested technology.
• Schedule and execute meetings within five business days to deliver a report on the state of technology development to the requesting warfighter or a representative from their command, ONR SMEs, and stakeholders, in order to validate the operational need for prototype development.
• Conduct technical analysis within five business days to determine whether a technology solution is already available, will soon become available, or requires development to solve the warfighter need.
• Provide a technical analysis to mathematically quantify the maturity of specific technology within commercial industry and government solution providers.
• Conduct technical inquiries with &DE developers, S&T SMEs, ONR HQ Program Officers, ONR MILDEPs, and other representatives from the ONR Codes to identify research being conducted or existing development already underway as a potential fit for a Tech Solutions requirement.
• Provide a technical analysis of the proposals and whitepapers received at Tech Solutions and mathematically quantify the validation of the research that has been conducted.
• Coordinate with technical stakeholders to collect their verbal and/or written evaluations for each new Tech Solutions request.
• Coordinate with ONR SME’s, document the stakeholders’ technical stake and post the data to the Tech Solutions online portal.
• Execute distribution (with 1 business day of solicitation closure) of white papers/proposals received by Tech Solutions to evaluate team members.
• Coordinate with ONR HQ and the ONR Global KM Team to post a written summary of the award on the Tech Solutions blog containing the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the project.
• Update blog content weekly by documenting active projects technical highlights, technical achievements and transition success stories.
• Evaluate Project Reports for technical deficiencies and contact Principal Investigators regarding missing or technically deficient reports.
• Ensure the most current Project Report information has been posted to the ONR HQ shared drive and the Tech Solutions Web Portal.
• Collect, review for accuracy (reporting requirement deadlines are met and technical progress matches the proposed schedule), and distribute Monthly Technical Reports.
• Solicit input from, and coordinate with, ONR Reserve Component, ONR Command Master Chief and the Tech Solutions team, to document outreach plans and events for connecting with warfighters.
• Capture and document outcomes from the engagement regarding who, what, where, when of attendees, new requests generated and discussion results, and report to Tech Solutions leadership.
• Research strategic guidance issued from Navy and Marine Corps leadership relating to operational priorities.
• Conduct technical evaluation to support topic validation to align the Tech Solutions portfolio with these…