Cruz Associates Inc. of Yorktown, VA (www.cruzinc.us) is looking for qualified candidates for a Senior Avionics Maintenance Professional position. The job location is Fort Campbell, KY in support of the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command's Aviation Maintenance and Sustainment Office (AMSO). Interested applicants should submit their application and resume.

Scope: The Avionics Maintenance Professional, provides maintenance consultation and logistics support to the User community. Position interfaces daily with the User community, Program/Project Managers, Logistic Managers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), and product vendors.

Key Responsibilities:
* Provide technical support to the AMSO for all aviation assets and support systems.
* Direct technical activities necessary to develop support requirements that meet readiness objectives.
* Recommend specific or alternative measures and materiel management processes of assigned equipment, that when implemented, will increase availability, maintainability, reliability and suitability.
* Oversee the acquisition of Commercial-Of-The-Shelf (COTS) items in support of maintenance sustainment.
* Provide subject matter expertise for newly developed and acquired maintenance management and logistics support automation programs.
* Conduct system status/status reporting/maintenance briefings, as required.
* Participate in ongoing assessments of current and projected capabilities and validate specific material solution information to the highest degree of system fidelity.
* Assess interoperability and commonality of components/systems that are similar in function to other DoD programs or Allied programs.
* Ensure that support considerations are an integral part of the system's design requirements, that the system can be cost effectively supported throughout its life-cycle, and that the infrastructure elements necessary for the initial fielding and operational support of the system are identified, developed and acquired
* Provide support in evaluating compatibility, interoperability, and system integration to ensure User required capabilities can be satisfied.
* Assist in describing system conditions and operational environments that may impact meeting User identified required capabilities.
* Identify, analyze, and conduct trade-off support considerations with other system cost, schedule and performance elements to arrive at an optimum balance of system requirements that meet the User's operational and readiness requirements.
* Analyze systems that may no longer meet operational needs, or can be substantially improved in capability, or are no longer affordable to operate.
* Evaluate reported problems with respect to total system effect, note possible trends, and determine probable resolution.
* Assist in the management of Special Operations Aviation (SOA)-peculiar, low density, commercial, and closed-loop systems and subsystems.
* Perform routine clerical, administrative, and logistics tasks as required in support of the AMSO.

Education and Experience:
* Ability to obtain and/or maintain a Secret or Interim Secret security clearance.
* Associates Degree in a technical field (Bachelor's degree in a technical field, desired).
* 10 years' experience working with military rotary wing aircraft and military logistics.
* 8 years' experience performing professional aviation maintenance tasks with a concentration on avionics systems.
* 5 years' experience with the SOA aircraft and related avionics systems development, architecture and integration.
* 5 years' experience in development of avionics systems design and applications.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.