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Responsible for the daily operations of the Berg Field Center. This includes providing customer service to science groups, sub-contractors, military, and ASC personnel in the provision of life safety items such as survival bags, stoves, climbing equipment, and field shelters. They are also responsible for outdoor safety lecture course instruction to all USAP participants,assistwith Search & Rescue incidents asrequiredand support science groups in the field.

Position Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe workplace program and ensures that safety is the highest priority in the workplace.

• Complies withall ASC Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH), Waste Management and Quality Assurance requirements.

• Trains grantees and other USAP participants in the use of life-safety survival gear and field equipment stocked in the field center.  This includes but is not limited to sizing climbing equipment, operating camp stoves, erecting a variety of tents, and offering instruction on the proper use of a large variety of other field equipment.

• Repairs,maintains, and cleans life-safety field equipment including specialty items (i.e.a variety of sleds, tents, stoves, ice coring equipment, and climbing equipment).

• Facilitates and supports the USAP Field Safety Training program at McMurdo Station providing detailed instruction oncold weathersurvival techniques, Risk Management, radio communications procedures, familiarization of surroundings, local weather, safe sea ice travel and basic first aid concepts. They mayassistwith instruction of the technical mountaineering skills and crevasse rescue techniques if theypossesstheappropriate skills

• Mayparticipatesas an auxiliary member of the Summer USAP Search and Rescue Team, engaged in all support training exercises and actual incident response deployments. May berequiredtoassistwith Emergency Operations Center activities during prolonged responses.

• Performs remote field support duties to NSF sponsored events or ASC work centers asrequiredWhen deployed into the field, takes on a leadership role to support science activities. Required to work outside on various jobs in extremecold weatherconditions for long hours.

• Occasionallyemployeemust work at high altitudes. 

• Maintainsa field safety role focusing on risk assessment and management of field hazards.

• Ensuresthat daily communications and weather observations are reported asrequired

• Supports the packing, prioritization, and loading and unloading of cargo fromaircraft

• Responsible for hazardous cargo identification, labeling, and handling prior to, while in, and during transport from the field.

• Builds, breaks-down and hooks live sling loads from helicopters. 

• Performsduties such as equipment operation, weather observations, and fueling asrequired 

• Ensures field site and equipment aremaintainedand secured for Antarctic conditions.

• Maintains a tidy camp, adheres to environmental protocol, andis responsible forretrograding waste as needed.

• Acts as a first responder in the field as necessary, providing medical care at the Wilderness First Responder Level

• Works with science teams at field camps to provide required support, troubleshoot issues, and is involved in decision making.  May handle and resolvedifficult situationssuch as personnel issues or resource limitations.

• Identifiesand provides many logistical needs, including inventory reporting, fuel deliveries, and snow melting.

• Provides support cooking, re-supply food planning, and galley tasks and dish washing as needed.

• Interacts with National Science Foundation, other sub-contractors (e.g.air support providers), military, other agency officials, and Antarctica New Zealand, both over the telephone and inperson, in a professional and tactful manner.

• May review scientific research requirements andsuggeststrains on proper survival and field gear. 

• Provides input to NSF sponsored events, supervisor and completes support and planning tasks as designated.

• Operates andmaintainssnowmobiles, tracked snow vehicles, forklift, and all other mechanical equipment issued to the work center.

• Works with Central Comms, Field Support Coordinators, Helo Ops and Av Ops to ensure resupply to the field groups; Packages, TCN’s, and tracks resupply cargo

• Uses an Access database to track field equipment that is issued to and returned from sponsored events.

• Educates field-bound groups on the risks and prevention associated with Carbon Monoxide issues.

• Operates industrial sewingmachineto repair stock,modifyand fabricate items for NSF sponsored groups asrequired

• Routinely works without direct supervision and often in role requiring leadership or delegation of tasking.

• Participatesin an annual inventory cycle count and ship-offload activities.

• Frequently needs to lift and push 50 lbs. constantlymoves20 lb. objects.

• Employees and contractors may,in the course ofperforming their official duties, have access to a wide variety of personal identifiable and sensitive information (PII/SI) electronically and in hard copy. Personal and sensitive data including Social Security numbers, date and place of birth, demographic data, home addresses/telephone numbers/personal email addresses, passport numbers, bank account numbers, performance reviews, reviewer identity tied to performance reviews, unfunded proposals, proprietary parts of funded proposals, and other similar information should be protected according to Federal regulations and United States Antarctic Program policy, and only disclosed in accordance with the United States Antarctic program requirements.

• Performs other duties asrequire

RequiredEducation, Experience, Certificates and Licenses

• High School diploma or GED

• Fouryears’of experience in any combination of the following isrequired expedition outfitting in polar climates or high-altitude winter settings, National Park service positions, outdoor education,experience working with helicopters and fixed wingaircraft,and/or guiding services.

• Two of the four years’ experience must be working withinlogisticsor supply

• Wilderness First Responder certification

• Incident Command System (ICS) 100 and 200 certifications (training offered on-line through FEMA).

ExpectedSkills and Competencies:

• Previousexperience in mountain/ski shop or maintenance of outdoor equipment

• A proven ability to work in remote, harshenvironmental, and as a team player

• Computer competencyrequiredwitha proficiencyin Microsoft Excel & Word

Preferred

• Experience with meteorological, GPS, and communication equipment

• Glacial travel and/or basic mountaineering experience

• Weather Observation Training

• Bachelor’s Degree in natural sciences

Physical and/or Other Requirements

• Willingness and ability to deploy to Antarctica for extended periods

• Successful completion of Medical and Dental examinations required by the NSF for deployment to Antarctica

• Successful completion of drug screening and background check required by employer

• Successful completion of Federal Background Check required by the NSF

• Must be willing and able to lift and move items, parts, assemblies, and equipment up to the safety regulation maximum as required by the position.

• Must be willing and able to perform physical activities including heavy lifting, climbing in and out of equipment, crawling, and working outdoors in extreme cold as required by the position.

• Mustparticipatein community programs, such as “house-mouse” (chores), “daisy-picking” (cleaning-up around the station), recycling efforts & safetyobjectives

• Valid Driver’s License issued in the United States

• No clearance requirement but the contract and/or the siterequiresUS Citizenship to be approved for access. (includes NACI / T1, MRPT, CAC)  Mustbe able to obtain andmaintainfacility credentials/authorization. Note: US Citizenship isrequiredfor facility credentials/authorization at this work location.

Safety- Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaininga safe work environment. Asappropriate, each employeeis responsible forcompleting all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddyaid responsibilities,participatingin emergency response tasks, and serving on safety committees and teams.