Foreign Language Speaker (FLS) Role Players – NTC

Check Defense is a fast-growing federal contractor seeking Foreign Language Speaker (FLS) Role Player professionals to create a real world Battlefield in support of a new opportunity at Fort Irwin, CA. The Role Players provide operations support to the National Training Center (NTC) mission: to provide realistic joint and combined arms training focused on developing soldiers, leaders, and units of the United States Military for success on the 21st Century Battle Field.

FLS Role Player must be able to replicate cultural backgrounds, support services and assist in training for the Department of Defense (DoD) to the full spectrum of the US Armed Forces. Realistic world training for deployment training with cultural awareness.

Foreign Language Speaker (FLS) Role Players will operate at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. 

(7.) Mandarin

Responsibilities:

• Wear assigned wardrobe and safety equipment while responding accordingly based on the scenario.
• Deliver a realistic performance based on the scenario objectives for training; prohibited from any deviation from the training scenario without guidance from the role player manager.
• Replicate and act in roles as: Local Government Authorities, members of the country security force, members of local tribes and their leaders, members of religious groups and their leaders, refugees and displaced persons oppressed by the former regime, hostile combatant detainees in a prison environment, criminal detainees, and criminal detainees in a prison environment.
• Participate in routine activities (meetings, social events, etc.) within their assigned areas to blend into the local populace.
• Stand on feet and lay prone for long periods of time.
• Able be able to read, write, and speak both the required foreign language and English.
• The FLSs shall translate scenario elements into the required language (RL), act as RL/English linguists for exercise participants, and/or act as the RL-training-focus-area insurgent/terrorist detainees to provide cultural and linguistic realism to the training and scenarios.
• Shall be trained and proficient in the use of simulated/blank firing weapons.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to meet all security requirements for access to a federal installation.
• Possess a High School diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Possess excellent oral & written skills to include the ability to listen & interpret messages correctly.
• Must possess outstanding communicative skills (verbal & nonverbal).
• Able to speak, read, and write in both English and target language.

Working condition:

• Physically capable of performing assigned work under normally anticipated climatic conditions, such as extreme weather (heat, humidity, sleet, rain, et).
• Able to spend extended periods of time (up to 14 Days at a time) in a field environment with tactical field conditions in all seasons of the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, CA.
• Can maintain appropriate level of physical endurance and health to operate in austere tactical field conditions under simulated combat operations and under the life support conditions of the Soldiers in the exercise; able to walk up to five (5) kilometers per day over broken ground.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Do repetitive tasks.
• Able to ride in tactical and/or non-tactical vehicles to include Army Helicopters wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Required to climb or balance, stoop under or squat, kneeling, crouching, and able to move quickly and safely across all types of terrain.
• Able to reach with your hands and arms, talk, and hear.
• Lifting: frequently lift and move up to 70lbs.
• Vision: required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel:

• Able to perform periodic travel lasting up to Sixteen (16) days.

Check Defense, LLC participates in E-Verify to determine an individual’s identity and employment eligibility to work in the United States. E-Verify is a service of DHS and SSA. We are a small business Employer.