Transportation Specialist

Position: Transportation Specialist

Type: Full-time

Location: Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

Travel: 10%

Contingent Upon Award

Position Summary: The Transportation Specialist serves as the primary coordinator for passenger movement, cargo transportation, deployment planning, and mobility operations supporting Naval Special Warfare Group ONE Detachment Bahrain and deployed forces throughout the United States Central Command theater. This position manages strategic airlift, sealift, and ground transportation requirements through coordination with multiple Department of Defense transportation organizations and combatant command stakeholders.

Working independently with minimal oversight, the Transportation Specialist ensures personnel, equipment, and mission-essential cargo arrive at designated locations on schedule to maintain operational readiness and support contingency, exercise, and training requirements. The position directly impacts the successful deployment, sustainment, and redeployment of Naval Special Warfare forces across the theater of operations.

• Enter data into multiple databases and ensure data is maintained.

• Ensure consistency and appropriate cross-referencing for both newly entered and previously entered data.

• Retrieve data and use data to respond to a variety of customer and vendor inquiries.

• Compile and analyze data to identify trends, deficiencies, and accomplishments related to the assigned programs.

• Perform research to determine reasons for patterns of transaction errors and failures.

• Research problems surfaced by customers; resolve issues or route to appropriate

• Government personnel with information setting forth research findings.

• Conduct extensive searches for information pertaining to complex and/or unusual supply transactions and patterns; assemble retrieved information into different formats to meet different requirements; for example, status reports, unmet customer needs, and other similar areas.

• Analyze the results of applying guidelines to difficult situations and recommend changes.

• Review existing automated system(s) to determine feasibility for improvement.

• Be responsible for arranging and scheduling all NSWG-1 Det Bahrain/TF-3 and deployed personnel, passenger, and cargo movement requirements through close and continuous coordination with U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), U.S. Air Mobility Command (AMC), Central Command (CENTCOM), Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT), Logistic Support Facility (LSF), FIFTH Fleet (FIFTHFLT), Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC), Military Sealift Command (MSC), Fleet Industrial Supply Center (FISC), NAVTRANS, Defense Distribution Center (DDC), Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), and other government agencies in order to meet operational requirements.

• Provide oversight functions regarding coordination of strategic airlift and/or sealift requirements for NSWG-1 Det Bahrain/TF-3 and deployed forces in support of deployments and redeployments to the CENTCOM theater for exercises, training, and contingency tasking.

• Provide NSWG-1 Det Bahrain/TF-3 deployment support. Ensuring the deployment of NSW/MSOC personnel and equipment, via military airlift/sealift and/or contract aircraft or vessel, meets the Required Delivery Data (RDD) as directed by Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)/USCENTCOM Deployment Order or NSW Commander in order to meet operational commitments and/or to sustain or enhance combat readiness of deployed NSW Forces.

• Use automated Department of Defense (DoD) transportation systems to ensure passenger and cargo transportation requirements are accurately entered into Time Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD).

• Provide transportation support to exercise and theater engagement requirements. Coordinate strategic airlift and/or sealift and ground/line haul transportation to move NSW deployed personnel and equipment in support of JCS/Fleet exercises, counter-drug missions, Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET), and unilateral training conducted in the CENTCOM theater.

• Schedule/coordinate passenger and cargo movement with Command Logistics Forces NAVCENT/Command Task Force 53 (COMLOGFORNAVCENT/CTF-53), AMC, CENTCOM, SOCCENT, COMFIFTHFLT, MTMC, MSC, Fleet Industrial Supply Center (FISC), Defense Distribution Center (DDC), Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), and other government agencies.

• Process all phases of transportation for hazardous materials by all modes (i.e. land, vessel, and commercial/military air). International regulations covered include the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code and the International Commercial Air Transport Associations Dangerous Goods Regulations. United States regulations covered include the Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and U.S. military regulations.

• Ensure timelines are met and cargo arrives in time to maintain combat readiness of deployed NSW forces. NSWG-1 Det Bahrain is the executive agent for ALL NSW activities…