Life Support Maintenance Manager/ Excursion and Electronically Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) and Recompression System Manager (Key)
Seventh Dimension
- Location
- Onsite (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Seventh Dimension is seeking a Life Support Maintenance Manager to provide technical leadership and oversight for diving life support systems and recompression chambers. This key personnel role supports Naval Special Warfare operations, ensuring equipment readiness, managing inventory, and developing training curricula for specialized dive maintenance teams.
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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
**Contingent Upon Award**
Position Summary: 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.
Duties and 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.
Required Qualifications:
• 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 equipment.
• Experience: Experience developing training curriculum and conducting technical instruction for dive maintenance personnel and diving supervisors.
• Certification: Must possess and maintain forklift certification up to 6,000-pound capacity.
• Qualification: Must be able to obtain and maintain NSW Coxswain qualification.
• Skills: Strong leadership, maintenance management, technical instruction, inventory accountability, and program management skills.
• Skills: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Clearance: Secret
All Contractor Personnel Requirements:
• U.S. citizen
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively
• Must accurately input and manage data across systems
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license
• Must be able to obtain and maintain installation access
Physical Ability to:
• Perform physically demanding maintenance, inspection, and inventory management activities involving dive systems and support equipment.
• Lift, carry, transport, inspect, and maintain diving equipment, propulsion systems, communications equipment, batteries, tools, and support materials.
• Walk, stand, bend, kneel, climb, and work in warehouses, maintenance facilities, piers, vessels, and operational maritime environments.
• Travel and conduct training, maintenance, inspections, inventories, and operational support activities at CONUS and OCONUS locations.
• Work safely around lithium battery systems, oxygen systems, diving equipment, compressed gas systems, and specialized underwater technologies.
Physical Demands and Work Environment: While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen, and write. The employee frequently is required to use foot/ankle motions, hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be the best qualified for the position and successfully perform the functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made (if possible) to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
Company Background: Seventh Dimension LLC provides focused customer support in two core competencies Training & Support Services. Since 2015, we have provided customers with flexible, adaptable, and creative approaches to solving complex problems. We are a proven prime contractor that understands future operating environments, fiscal constraints, and current force requirements. We are a SDVOSB in North Carolina with a TS Facility Clearance, Secret storage and a DCAA compliant accounting system.
Disclaimer: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
Seventh Dimension, LLC is a Veteran friendly employer and provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.