Asset Manager – Journeyman

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee the management of IT assets during their acquisition, receipt, assignment, deployment, maintenance, transfer, refresh, recovery, and disposal.

• Keep precise records for hardware, software, appliances, network devices, peripherals, and Government-Furnished Property.

• Assist Hand Receipt Holders and collaborate with the USMEPCOM Property Book Office on property records, accountability, inventories, transfers, discrepancies, and disposition.

• Manage asset identifiers, serial numbers, model details, ownership, assigned users, custodians, locations, status, condition, warranty, and lifecycle dates.

• Ensure asset repositories and record systems contain up-to-date, complete, consistent, and traceable information.

• Reconcile asset records with configuration management, procurement, shipping, receiving, deployment, maintenance, and service documentation.

• Investigate discrepancies in asset records and coordinate necessary corrective actions.

• Plan, coordinate, and assist with physical asset inventories and audits at USMEPCOM and associated locations.

• Create inventory schedules, audit guidelines, tracking sheets, evidence requirements, and reconciliation procedures.

• Confirm the existence, location, serial number, assignment, operational status, condition, and accountable custodian of equipment.

• Record inventory outcomes, discrepancies, corrective actions, responsible parties, deadlines, and resolution evidence.

• Prepare Asset Audit Reports and monitor audit findings and inventory discrepancies until validated closure.

• Maintain agreements for maintenance, warranties, licenses, support contracts, renewal dates, service coverage, and vendor contact information.

• Identify expiring agreements, warranty gaps, unsupported assets, obsolete equipment, and renewal or refresh needs.

• Coordinate maintenance renewals, support agreements, warranty coverage, and replacement planning with procurement and finance teams.

• Support lifecycle planning, equipment refreshes, installations, moves, additions, changes, relocations, transfers, repairs, replacements, and removals.

• Prepare and manage disposition packages for obsolete, excess, surplus, damaged, or unneeded equipment, hardware, and software.

• Verify approvals, data-sanitization evidence, transfer documentation, shipping records, and disposition records.

• Keep documentation that supports asset accountability, chain of custody, property transfers, auditability, and record retention.

• Develop asset metrics and prepare asset-management inputs for Monthly Status Reports and other Government reporting requirements.

• Identify issues with recordkeeping, accountability gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities to enhance asset controls.

• Establish and maintain asset-management procedures, SOPs, templates, checklists, user guides, and reporting tools.

• Integrate asset-management activities with configuration, change, incident, request, procurement, finance, and cybersecurity processes.

• Safeguard sensitive asset and property information in accordance with applicable Government regulations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

• Bachelor’s degree or a relevant technical degree is necessary.

• At least 5 years of experience in IT asset management, property management, logistics, inventory control, management analysis, or equipment accountability.

• Preferred experience in managing Government-Furnished Property within a federal or Department of Defense environment.

• Preferred experience supporting Hand Receipt Holders and Government Property Book Offices.

• Knowledge of DoD property accountability, inventory, audit, transfer, and disposition requirements is preferred.

• Preferred experience in conducting physical inventories and reconciling outcomes with authoritative asset records.

• Experience in developing Asset Audit Reports, discrepancy reports, corrective-action trackers, and Monthly Status Report inputs is preferred.

• Experience in maintaining maintenance agreements, warranties, licenses, support contracts, and renewal schedules is preferred.

• Preferred experience in preparing disposition packages for obsolete, excess, surplus, damaged, or unneeded equipment.

• Experience in maintaining records for chain of custody, transfer, sanitization, shipping, return, and disposal is preferred.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management, Software Asset Management, configuration management databases, or similar asset-management platforms is preferred.

• Experience with automated inventory, discovery, barcode, RFID, or asset reconciliation tools is preferred.

• Preferred familiarity with ITIL asset management, configuration management, change management, and service request practices.

• Certifications such as Certified Hardware Asset Management Professional, Certified Software Asset Manager, Certified IT Asset Manager, ITIL Foundation, or comparable are preferred.

• Experience coordinating asset activities with procurement, finance, logistics, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and configuration management teams is preferred.

• Strong attention to detail, data reconciliation, documentation, audit support, organizational skills, and ability to coordinate with stakeholders.

• Willingness to travel to supported locations for physical inventories, asset validations, transfers, or disposition activities as needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Opportunity to be considered for other available positions requiring comparable skills, education, and experience.