The Columbia Group is a premier federal services support company with a successful history of providing the United States Military, Department of Homeland Security and Federal Aviation Administration with acquisition, engineering, financial management, human performance strategy, information technology, logistics, medical logistics, general business management, and training support services. Based in Washington, DC and Lawton, Oklahoma with regional offices in Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Virginia, The Columbia Group employs nearly 1,000 professionals, providing client-focused solutions across all armed forces in over 33 locations across the United States.

The Columbia Group (TCG), a technical services support company which has a successful 40+ year history of providing the United States Military with acquisition, logistics management, engineering, design, fabrication, test and evaluation, information technology and financial management support services is seeking a Technical Specialist.  The Technical Specialist III will be responsible for accomplishing the tasks described below: 

Provide program technical documentation review and support.

Update and maintain a schedule that identifies all development and support tasks, System Engineering (SE) Technical reviews, Milestone Assessment Team (MAT) events, Independent Logistics Assessments (ILAs) events, Technical Readiness Assessments (TRA) events, and Operational Test Readiness Review (OTRR) events. These items shall be incorporated into the integrated master schedule.

Review and comment on the engineering documentation in support of the acquisition milestone cycle for both systems and software.

Review, and submit comments on the System Engineering Plans. 

Participate in internal and cross organizational IPT meetings, working groups, reviews, and meetings to support each competency and program.

Prepare briefs and presentation material.

Organize, and attend, meetings and IPT discussions as required. In addition, the contractor shall write and submit conference or meeting minutes and agendas.

Write and submit meeting minutes.

Write and submit trip reports

Update and maintain the contents of the PdM FPS Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Systems (MCEITS) SharePoint sites for each program and competency area.

Update, review, and manage the Government data repository for program documentation, briefs, and presentations.

Review documents and submit comments in a comment resolution matrix.

Review and provide comments to all Memorandum of Agreements via comment resolution matrix.

Identify, track, and manage programs’ risks.

Develop, review and update the PdM FPS risk management program, risk registries, risk mitigation plans, and review all required logistics related acquisition program documentation for compliance with the PdM FPS Risk Management Program.

Participate in Risk Management Working Groups and Review Boards.

Draft, maintain, and update the Naval Probability of Program Success (PoPS) briefs.

Provide input to and maintain the Integrated Master Schedules and Integrated Master Plans for each program within the PdM FPS portfolio using the current MCSC approved version of Microsoft Project.

Provide input to and comply with FPS programs’ Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) process.

Develop and maintain Program Management Review, Interim Progress Review and Decision Review briefs.

Support the completion of all PdM FPS taskers.

BA/BS and 4 years experience (6 years of work experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree)

Experience with ECP's (Engineering Change Proposals) & SEP's (System Engineering Plans)

TRA/ OTRR 

Master Schedules

FULL TIME / PART TIME / 1099 POSITIONS AVAILABLE