Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)

Location:  Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina

Help elite aircrews perform at their best when it matters most.

The 437th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston supports the nation’s rapid global airlift mission—delivering people, equipment, and capabilities wherever they are needed, often under extraordinarily demanding conditions. LMR Technical Group is hiring human-performance professionals to help aircrew members stay mentally sharp, physically durable, resilient, and mission-ready. These aircrews routinely operate in challenging environments, including extended-duration flights, low-altitude operations using night-vision goggles, and high-altitude aerial delivery missions. After hours of demanding operations, they must still have the focus, judgment, and physical capability to safely bring their aircraft home.

Why this role matters
Working directly with active-duty mobility aircrews, you will help optimize performance across the mental, emotional, and physical domains. Modern military operations demand more than physical fitness. They require people who can think clearly under pressure, adapt to rapidly changing conditions, manage stress, and sustain peak performance over long periods of time. Your expertise will directly contribute to preparing aircrews for some of the most demanding missions in the Air Force—helping them perform at their best while improving long-term health, resilience, and readiness.

If you are passionate about human performance and want your work to have a direct impact on mission readiness, this is an opportunity to make a difference at the operational level.

Job Description:

Provide injury prevention and performance enhancement of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in mobility aircrew. The CSCS will evaluate and provide performance assessment and maintenance to mobility aircrew personnel. Performance enhancement is intended to strengthen the MSK system, enhance capacity to perform physically demanding warfighting tasks, and to enhance resistance to injury. Overall MSK strengthening and health lifestyle education is addressed as part of an overall health maintenance program to enhance injury resistance and maximize physical warfighting capability and capacity. Strength and conditioning focused on injury prevention will also improve overall quality of life for mobility aircrew.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Conduct initial evaluations and performance assessments for assigned mobility aircrew, developing individualized programs (IP) focused on neck and back conditioning to minimize injury risks and severity. Track progress through follow-up assessments as needed.

- Guide the implementation of IPs, ensuring alignment with human performance objectives, injury prevention strategies, and the aircrew's overall healthcare plan.

- Serve as a human performance advisor to unit commanders, providing recommendations on injury prevention, program improvements, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and fitness program protocols.

- Monitor and evaluate new developments in injury prevention, strength and conditioning, and rehabilitation techniques. Recommend updates to equipment, exercise regimens, and best practices to enhance program effectiveness.

- Maintain open communication with aircrew and leadership regarding performance, injury risks, and coordination with medical personnel. Ensure aircrew members with new duty-limiting conditions are referred to unit commanders and, when necessary, the servicing MTF.

- Maintain a safe training environment by ensuring proper equipment usage, reporting safety concerns, and advising on facility layout, exercise protocols, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Document all aircrew assessments, encounters, and performance data within 3 business days and contribute required information to the HP-MER.

- Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to ensure a holistic approach to human performance optimization and injury prevention.

- Attend all unit and Military Treatment Facility (MTF) meetings as required or as requested by the Unit Commander or his/her designee.

- Maintain proficiency in all prescribed exercises and techniques to provide hands-on demonstrations and ensure proper execution by aircrew personnel.

- Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Human Performance, Kinesiology, Exercise Science, or a related field.

- 2+ years of full-time experience as a Strength & Conditioning Specialist in collegiate (or higher), professional, or tactical athletics; aerospace industry, test pilot/astronaut or similar man-machine high-performance environment.

- National Strength and Conditioning (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) or Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Association (CSCCa) and Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC).

- Current CPR and AED certification.

- Current (or ability to obtain and maintain) Secret security clearance (T3 background investigation). Must be a U.S. citizen to obtain a Secret clearance. Please visit the following link for more information:  https://www.dcsa.mil/Personnel-Security/Background-Investigations-for-Applicants/Investigations-Clearance-Process/

- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits Include:

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

- Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability Insurance

- 401(k)

- Paid Time Off

- Paid Holidays

- Employee Assistance Program

- Continuing Education Reimbursement Program

About LMR:

LMR is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that supports technology development and provides comprehensive joint warfighter training by leveraging the skills, experience, and knowledge of its personnel.

LMR Technical Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

If you are a qualified applicant with a disability in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected] . EOE Disability/Veteran.

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