Material and Logistics Control Specialist

Position Summary 

This role will be responsible for purchasing goods and services for our organization in a cost-effective and timely manner. As well as aid in the support of material readiness, inventory and accountability of all corporate materials, aviation parts, Ground Support Equipment (GSE), tools, and commercial product. The employee will receive formal, informal, and on-the-job training.   

Business Unit Overview

Metrea Special Aerospace (MSA) provides a full range of aerospace solutions from integrated C4ISR operational services and tailored aviation services to advanced tactical helicopter training. MSA is a leader in commercial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) with superior platforms and a constantly evolving set of capabilities across all levels of services. We also offer custom, discreet, convenient, and reliable options to meet our partners’ mission needs in the air and on the ground and expert instructors well-versed in special mission aviation tasks and integrated air-ground-maritime planning and execution. 

MSA designs, prototypes, engineers, and tests commercial, military, and government special mission applications for our US government and international defense customers, OEM partners, and private aircraft owners. We have recovered, serviced, and delivered aircraft globally throughout North, Central, and South America, as well as Europe, Asia, Africa, and along the Pacific Rim. Our integrated solutions are the product of our deep stack of aviation capabilities and related design, acquisition, engineering, training, operations, and evaluation services offered to our customers in either integrated packages or as standalone services. Our organizational culture prioritizes safety, innovation, quality, and efficiency with responsive and flexible support.

Metrea Enterprise Overview

Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects as-a-service across a spectrum of domains including Air, Space, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Simulation. Metrea Management provides central services to 12 global business units via Operations, Solutions, Strategy, Legal, and Finance teams. 

Essential Functions and Competency Statements 

• Executes rapid procurement of aircraft parts, GSE, expendables, and other required commercial items.
• Generate purchase requisitions, purchase orders and preserve necessary supporting documentation according to company policies and procedures. 
• Maintains and develops vendor relationships and is responsible for sourcing new vendor relationships when necessary.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to determine procurement needs.
• Receives, unpacks, examines, and routes all incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.  
• Receives and processes all defective parts returned for replacement or credit. 
• Reports defective materials or questionable conditions to supervisor.
• Ensures rapid delivery of items via DoD and commercial freight or express methods.
• Performs functions necessary to track various inbound and outbound shipments to destination.
• Responsible for creating, tracking, receiving, and updating the status of all shipments.
• Completes accurate monthly inventories of all items.
• Support the aircraft maintainers, program managers, and finance department to ensure accountability and status updates on procured and GFE items.
• Manage and update administrative filling systems and databases.
• Resolve difficult or complicated challenges.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships.
• Diligently attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks without direct supervision.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with other colleagues and supervisors, through excellent oral and written skills.

Supervisory Responsibility
 This role has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment
This role operates in a diverse environment that includes an office setting using standard office equipment, a warehouse setting with various weather and temperature conditions to include extreme heat and humidity, as well as outdoors with potential adverse weather conditions and high noise levels. During deployment, employees will be living under field conditions and must be able to work with little supervision in austere or arduous environments. Work environment varies widely based on geographic location of contract operations.