Overview
The Staff Officer (Lines of Communication) provides subject matter expertise on the transportation infrastructure sector and its interdependencies to support infrastructure gap analyses and information management.
Key Responsibilities
- - Supports the Branch Head in given tasks on infrastructure issues related to JSEC and the reinforcement and sustainment network (RSN) with expertise in the transport sector.
- - Provides Engineer advice and guidance on all transportation/movement related infrastructure.
- - Supports the conduct of cross-functional infrastructure assessments in order to enhance the Comprehensive Understanding of the Operational Environment (CUOE) and to identify gaps and vulnerabilities within the Reinforcement and Sustainment Network (RSN).
- - Supports the analysis of complex and interdependent infrastructure networks, acting as subject matter expert for the strategic infrastructure sector Transport and its interdependencies.
- - Supports the assessment of the impact of infrastructure-related incidents on the RSN physical layer with expertise on transport-related infrastructure.
- - Maintains close coordination with movement and logistics functions within JSEC, in particular with JSEC SPT J4 Division (RSN Mobility Branch) for the transport sector.
- - Supports the development and maintenance of a common operational picture of the movement-related RSN infrastructure (APODs, SPODs, RPODs) and lines of communication (LOC) (e.g. road/railway/sea lines of communication, etc.).
- - Provides the specialist military engineer input to the operational planning process, supporting mission analysis with the resource and infrastructure developments plans required to support movement operations.
- - Advises staff, host and user nations on Lines of Communication infrastructures to include support within JSEC and other NATO HQs.
- - Assists in the development of capability packages (CPs) in support of NATO planning for future capabilities within the designated operations area and assists in ensuring compliance with criteria and standards.
- - Participates in training, evaluation, validation & certification exercises of operational and subordinate HQ elements, providing MILENG augmentees for NATO exercises as required, including the provision of MILENG Transportation Infrastructure Sector subject matter expertise.
Required Experience
- - Proven experience in Military Civil Engineering.
- - Activities that identify, design, construct, lease, or provide military facilities.
- - Involved in operational planning to identify the minimum construction requirements required to support the commitment of military forces.
- - Require military and civilians who are certified professional engineers or architects.
- - 3+ years’ experience in Infrastructure management directly linked to Transportation (desirable).
- - Experience and enhanced understanding of the multi-modal transport networks and urban planning (desirable).
- - Experience in the area of Infrastructure Risk Management / Critical Infrastructure or similar (desirable).
- - Experience in LOGFAS (desirable).
- - Technical expertise with data modelling and segmentation techniques (desirable).
- - Familiarization with the principles of Geo Information Systems (GIS) (desirable).
- - Thorough understanding of management and data administration duties such as collection, analysis and distribution (desirable).
- - Very high numerical & analytical skills (desirable).
Qualifications
- - University Degree in Civil engineering disciplines or related discipline and 2 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
- - Any further training certificates and courses related to subject field or acquired through NATO (e.g.: Orientation Course, Host Nation Support Course) (desirable).
