Principles of Decontamination Course Manager/ Decontamination SME

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Principles of Decontamination Course Manager/ Decontamination SME to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the planning and management of the Principles of Decontamination (PoD) Course and provides comprehensive support throughout the entire planning, conduct, and follow-up of the course.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Must be in near continuous communication with DoD personnel supporting the course and adapt workloads to accomplish multiple deadlines, provide direction and judgement, and evaluate employee, subcontractor, and consultant performance.
• The individual shall serve as an expert in the use of chemical and biological detection equipment, analytical equipment, and other mission-essential gear.
• Provides training to military and/or civilian personnel on the selection, preparation, and application of a variety of decontamination media for physical removal and neutralization of simulated chemical and biological contaminants.
• Serve as a SME all the below..
  • US DoD doctrine, TTPs, and SOPs required to conduct decontamination of personnel and casualties, with an emphasis on chemical and biological threat agents.
  • Chemical warfare agent detection equipment to include basic instrument maintenance, operational theory, and interpretation of instrument outputs / responses to both simulant and live agent chemical challenges. Instruments will include currently fielded US DoD equipment (e.g. M8 & M256A2 CDK, JCAD, RMX - Raman, FTX - FTIR, MX908 HPMS) and select nonstandard detection equipment (e.g. multi-gas - 4 gas detector w/ PID, colorimetric test papers and length of stain tubes).
  • Biological warfare agent detection equipment to include basic instrument maintenance, operational theory, and interpretation of instrument outputs / responses to both simulant and live agent biological challenges. Instruments will include currently fielded US DoD equipment (e.g. immunoassays, PCR analysis, and mass spectrometry equipment).
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) / Individual Protective Technologies (IPT) to include knowledge of protective fabrics, to include permeation resistance to traditional and emerging threats.
  • Decontamination of live chemical and biological warfare agents and the physical removal techniques utilized by US DoD personnel.
  • Neutralization media application and evaluation utilizing US DoD specific solid and liquid decontaminants.
  • Respiratory protection to include air purifying respirators (APR), powered air purifying respirators (PAPR), canister function, break through, and proper respiratory PPE / IPT selection based established threat agent.
  • Applying the essential techniques of the Joint Trauma Systems (JTS) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) MARCHE2 process.
  • Update PoD Course Program of Instruction annually or more, as required.
  • Maintain proficiency on all chemical and biological mission-essential equipment.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Bachelors Degree and 10+ years of related experience to the below or 14+ years in lieu of a degree.
• Knowledge of chemical and biological warfare agents, their synthesis, exposure routes, signs, and symptoms, and their mode of transmission.
• Experience as a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) Technician, US Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Specialist (MOS 74D), or a graduate of advanced chemical and biological warfare agent training is highly desired.
• Experience as an instructor at a training command or in an operational unit’s training department, to include development and delivery of training curriculum is highly desired.
• Oversee the movement, distribution, and storage of both durable and expendable course equipment.
• Experienced with practical application of CBRN-related skills, to include operating in contaminated environment and employment of CBRN PPE.
• Physically capable of working extended periods in SCBA and fully encapsulating Personal Protective Equipment for up to eight (8) hours or more per day.
• Knowledge of Gas-Chromatograph Mass Spectroscopy, Photoionization detectors, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry, RAMAN Spectrometry, Polymerase Chain Reaction, and sample collection and management. Experience in the use of these technologies in a real-world operational or training environment is highly desired.
• Knowledge and experience in principles of Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation of chemical and biological sensors, detectors, and field confirmatory equipment is highly desired.
• Knowledge of decontamination doctrine as outlined in current DoD publications to include:
  • Joint Publication 3-11, Operations in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Environments (28 October 2020)
  • FM 3-11, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations (May 2019)
  • ATP 3-11.32 / MCRP 10-10E.11 / NTTP 3-11.27 / AFTTP 3-2.46, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Protection (24 January 2024)
  • ATP 3-11.33 / MCRP 10-10E.12 / NTTP 3-11.26 / AFTTP 3-2.60, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Contamination Mitigation (24 January 2024)
  • ATP 3-11.74 Chemical, Biological, Radiological, And Nuclear Platoons (15 April 2021)
• Must have a current Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance in the future.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Current Top Secret clearance

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

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