Life Support Maintenance Manager/ Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing
Listed on 2026-07-30
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic
Position: Life Support Maintenance Manager/ Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) and Recompression System Manager (Key)
Type: Full-time
Location: Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Virginia Travel:
Must be available for CONUS and OCONUS travel
The Life Support Maintenance Manager Level III / Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) and Recompression System Manager serves as a Key Personnel position supporting Naval Special Warfare Group Two (NSWG-2) Logistics Support Unit Two (LOGSU-2) Dive Department operations. This position provides technical leadership, maintenance oversight, inventory accountability, training management, and operational support for Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparatus (E-UBA/EC-UBA) systems, Diving Life Support Systems (DLSS), hyperbaric recompression chamber systems, mixed-gas diving equipment, and associated support equipment.
Dutiesand Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for maintenance, readiness, inventory management, and accountability of Diving Life Support Systems (DLSS), E-UBA systems, EC-UBA systems, and hyperbaric recompression chamber systems.
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Navy-approved diving materiel, mixed-gas systems, and recompression chamber operations.
- Provide direct supervisory oversight of assigned Diving Maintenance Technician personnel supporting E-UBA and EC-UBA programs.
- Manage workforce schedules, leave requests, staffing support, and workload priorities.
- Conduct scheduled and unscheduled preventive and corrective maintenance on E-UBA, EC-UBA, recompression systems, charging systems, diagnostics equipment, underwater communications systems, and associated life support systems.
- Assist with development, review, maintenance, and execution of Re-Entry Control (REC) packages for NSW recompression chamber systems.
- Monitor diving materiel, E-UBA, EC-UBA, and hyperbaric chamber inventories and readiness databases.
- Conduct annual physical inventory verification and reconciliation of assigned systems and equipment.
- Maintain access and accountability records within ELMS, DPAS, APSR, and other designated government systems.
- Maintain and update libraries of publications, directives, maintenance procedures, technical manuals, and applicable instructions.
- Coordinate issue, receipt, transfer, shipment, maintenance, and repair of dive equipment and hyperbaric systems.
- Develop statements of work, obtain maintenance quotes, and coordinate maintenance activities performed by external organizations.
- Assist in planning short-term and long-term maintenance programs and equipment recapitalization efforts.
- Support training program development for E-UBA and EC-UBA maintenance technicians and dive supervisors.
- Develop curricula, lesson plans, certification programs, and technical instruction materials.
- Conduct maintenance, repair, and sustainment training for NSW personnel.
- Coordinate compressed air testing submissions through the Divers Compressed Air Testing (DCAT) Program.
- Coordinate certification requirements for diving equipment and hyperbaric chamber systems.
- Forecast requirements for repair parts, consumables, maintenance materials, and technical equipment.
- Process requests and maintain records for issue, turn-in, gain, loss, and accountability of Dive Division property.
- Investigate and process documentation associated with missing, lost, stolen, or damaged equipment.
- Support issue, receipt, and accountability requirements utilizing DD Forms 1149, 1150, 1348, and DD 200 documentation as required.
- Ensure compliance with Navy, NAVSEA, NSW, hyperbaric, diving safety, maintenance management, and inventory accountability requirements.
- Qualification:
Navy Dive School Certified (NEC 5342 / M1DV or higher). - Experience:
Minimum eight (8) years of experience as a certified 5342 / M1DV or higher diver. - Experience:
Minimum three (3) years of Naval Special Warfare (NSW) experience. - Certification:
Navy Instructor Certified (NEC 9502). - Experience:
Minimum three (3) years of MK-16 Maintenance Technician experience. - Experience:
Minimum three (3) years of MK-25 Maintenance Technician experience. - Qualification:
Qualified as a Maintenance and Material Management (3M) Maintenance Person. - Qualification:
Qualified as a 3M Quality Assurance Craftsman. - Qualification:
Qualified as a 3M Work Center Supervisor. - Qualification:
Qualified in accordance with NAVEDTRA 43910-(Series). - Certification:
Factory-trained certification for diving equipment within inventory. - Certification:
Diving Life Support Systems (DLSS) Re-Entry Control (REC) Supervisor qualification. - Certification:
Oxygen Clean System Worker certification. - Experience:
Experience supporting maintenance, inventory management, accountability, and operational readiness of diving materiel, hyperbaric chamber systems, E-UBA systems, EC-UBA systems, and mixed-gas life support…
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