Customer Liaison Officer

Customer Liaison Officer

Department: Task Specialist

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Gamston Airport, Retford

Reporting To: Stuart Jones

To act as DEA's embedded Customer Liaison Officer within a Customer's centre in Dover, providing the day-to-day operational and technical link between the customer, DEA mission crews, and support teams. The liaison officer will be responsible for providing sensor payload output advice on the utilisation of the platform and resolving any issues with the interface. The role will provide first-line support to ensure sensor outputs are correctly received, displayed and understood within the command centre, escalating technical faults where required and maintaining continuity through clear shift handovers.

This is a shift-based, customer-facing role requiring a calm, credible and technically confident operator.

• Act as DEA's on-site representative during assigned shifts, maintaining a professional and effective working relationship with customer watch keepers, command staff and operational teams.
• Provide the customer with timely advice on platform availability, sensor outputs, tasking considerations, capabilities and operational limitations.
• Support the customer in understanding and using sensor payload outputs, including explaining what the platform can deliver and any factors affecting collection or display quality.
• Coordinate live operational queries and issues between the Customer's Centre, DEA mission crews, and support teams, ensuring information is passed through the agreed command and communication routes.

• Maintain a practical working knowledge of the platform sensor payload, output formats, display characteristics and key operational limitations.
• Advise on effective utilisation of the platform and sensor payload to support customer requirements, including appropriate use of available sensor products and outputs.
• Confirm that live feeds, imagery, video and associated data are being received and displayed correctly within the Customer's Centre.
• Explain any known collection gaps, degraded outputs, latency or other limitations to the customer and support identification of workable operational alternatives where possible.

• Provide first-line diagnosis and resolution of interface or display issues affecting the delivery of sensor payload outputs into the command centre.
• Complete agreed system checks and basic recovery actions, including connection, display, and configuration checks, within authorised procedures and access permissions.
• Identify whether faults are likely to sit within the local display/interface, communications path, mission system or aircraft platform and engage the appropriate support team.
• Escalate unresolved technical issues promptly, providing clear fault details, timings, symptoms, actions taken and current operational impact.
• Confirm restored service with the customer following corrective action and record the outcome to support traceability and recurring fault analysis.

• Conduct structured shift handovers covering platform status, customer priorities, current faults, outstanding actions and any operational limitations.
• Maintain concise operational and technical logs, capturing customer requests, interface issues, resolutions and matters requiring follow-up.
• Handle customer information, imagery and operational data in accordance with company procedures, customer security requirements and Customer site rules, raising risks or recurring issues through the appropriate management route.

• Demonstrable operational experience in a military, law enforcement, border security, command and control, intelligence, aviation, technical operations or similar environment; an ex-military or law enforcement background is highly desirable.
• Strong technical aptitude with experience of live video, sensor feeds, mission systems, IT interfaces, communications or control-room display systems, and the confidence to carry out first-line fault finding.
• A relevant technical,…