Firearms Range Lead

Overview

LMI seeks an experienced Firearms Range Lead to provide support to a DHS portfolio of firearms ranges in need of oversight, assessment and analysis, and performance improvement with the goal of ensuring a portfolio of safe and adequate firearms ranges to meet the client’s firearms training needs.  Join our team of collaborative self-starters focused on delivering practical and efficient solutions to help DHS keep our nation safe while supporting the facilitation of legitimate trade and travel.

Responsibilities

• Propagate top-level DHS guidance on firearms range operations and suitability into the decision-making process for range investments across the client’s range portfolio.
• Lead that assessment and analysis of the client’s firing ranges, both at the level of individual ranges and across the portfolio.
• Mitigate health and safety risk to range stakeholders, including users and operators, by regularly assessing compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Monitor and mitigate the impacts of firearms range operations on outside stakeholders, including the natural environment, neighbors, etc.
• Track the status and task adjudication in the client’s environmental compliance assessment (ECA) program for the firearms range portfolio.
• Instill standardization of use agreements.
• Perform ongoing analyses of the range portfolio to determine site-specific deficiencies and identify capacity and capability gaps within the portfolio.
• Develop a repeatable methodology to prioritize range capacity and capability gaps.
• Align the client’s firearms range requirements to the DHS investment process through the development of a multi-year investment plan in accordance with the federal acquisition and budget process.
• Develop projects to infill gaps in the range portfolio in accordance with operational requirements and agency regulations and standards.
• Prepare a firearms range investment plan to include prioritized projects, associated cost estimates, and an overall implementation schedule.
• Provide regular briefings and reports to government leaders on the state of the firearms range program and the government’s associated capability performance metrics.
• Lead meetings with stakeholders, including government leaders and program staff, other private sector contractors, service providers, and consultants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required in engineering, architecture, environmental science or related technical field.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in facility, engineering and environmental management of firearms ranges.
• Must have experience with federal firearms range facilities and familiar with firearms range operations as well as range development and construction. 
• Experience analyzing firearms regulations and providing strategic and tactical advice about implications and compliance.
• Experience in conducting feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, benefit-cost studies and other similar business cases.
• Experience preparing and developing multi-year investment plans aligned with federal acquisition and budget cycles.
• Familiar and versed in the built environment, including the planning and development of facilities from inception to operation (facility lifecycle).
• Able to gather, compile and analyze data at various levels to inform and guide government portfolio decisions.
• Familiar with database management and experience with the application of GIS data to a facilities portfolio.
• Experience facilitating meetings, activities and working groups related to firearms ranges.
• Strong interpersonal skills as evidenced by having facilitated and coordinated the efforts of government stakeholders and private sector consultants including architects/designers, engineers, and environmental planners in the firing range realm. Able to bridge the gap between federal leaders and private sector service providers.
• Able to communicate clearly with a wide variety of stakeholders orally and in writing using software including the MS suite of products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project)
• Able to collaborate well with others and build strong relationships across teams of varying backgrounds and disciplines.
• Professional certification in a relevant discipline such as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Facility Manager (CFM), or similar is a plus.
• Ability to pass a government public trust background investigation, including financial, criminal, residential, educational, foreign affiliation, prohibited substance abuse, and employment verifications; active U.S. Customs and Border Protection background investigation (CBP BI) preferred. Please note that only U.S.