Product Support Logistics Specialist

ARA; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Product Support Logistics Specialist to join their dynamic team in El Segundo, CA. This role is crucial for supporting mission-critical projects that impact national security and advanced space systems. You will manage product support strategies and logistics operations, ensuring seamless continuity from product development to sustainment. Your expertise will drive the integration of logistics planning into early design phases and support various space systems. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and have a passion for innovation, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Competitive Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Flexible Work Hours

Qualifications

• 3-10 years of experience in product support strategies aligned with DoD frameworks.
• Strong background in U.S. Space Force systems and organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive support throughout the acquisition lifecycle.
• Manage military airlift cargo using the government transportation network.

Skills

Product Support Strategies

Logistics Planning

Systems Engineering

DoD Acquisition Frameworks

Air Force Program Management

Space Force Program Management

Technical Order Management

Data-Driven Assessments

FMECA

Life Cycle Cost Modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Financial and Air Clearance Transportation System (FACTS)

Defense Enterprise and Accounting Management System (DEAMS)

Job description

Are you ready to work on mission-critical projects that directly impact national security and sustain advanced space systems? Then we are seeking your expertise in product support strategy, logistics, and system sustainment to join our dynamic team.

The Analytical Solutions Division (ASD) of Applied Research Associates (ARA), Inc., www.ara.com is seeking a full-time Product Support Logistics Specialistto provide support to a customer, on-site in El Segundo, CA. In this role, you will provide critical support for program acquisition lifecycle planning and systems while ensuring mission-critical space systems remain operational. Your expertise will be instrumental in managing product support strategies, coordinating sustainment activities, and implementing the twelve (12) DoD Product Support Elements (PSE) within Space Systems Command (SSC). The Product Support Logistics Specialistmust have experience and an in-depth understanding of the environments that include ground, near-space, space, and any system that operates in the SSC/SZ-BC environment. This is a contingent position.

What you’ll do as a Product Support Logistics Specialist:

• Provide comprehensive support throughout the acquisition lifecycle—including design, development, testing, production, sustainment improvement modifications, and system disposition. This covers systems engineering, architecture development, decision making, and integrated logistics planning and execution.
• Develop, deliver, and refine logistics operations to ensure seamless continuity from product development to sustainment.
• Manage military airlift cargo using the government transportation network and billing process, requiring intimate knowledge of Financial and Air Clearance Transportation System (FACTS) and Defense Enterprise and Accounting Management System (DEAMS).
• Providing product support to various space systems, including but not limited to Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) rapid prototyping initiatives.
• Develop and maintain technical order management and maintenance activities (TOMA).
• Collaborate with various teams such as engineering, finance, contracting, and operations to create data-driven logistics supportability assessments, define Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) frameworks, and ensure compliance.
• Lead efforts to integrate logistics planning into early design phases using tools such as Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Life Cycle Cost (LCC) modeling, and Logistics Support Analysis Records (LSAR).

Requirements for a Product Support Logistics Specialist:

• Possess a DoD Current/Active TS and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI Clearance
• 3-10 years of experience within product support strategiesthat are directly aligned withDoD acquisition frameworks
• Experience supporting Air Force and or Space Force Program Management Offices
• Facilitate logistics considerations are embedded throughout the system lifecycle
• Identify and operationalize infrastructure, sustainment processes, and frameworks for high-reliability space systems and components

• Experience in integrating systems engineering design attributes (RMAS) with the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements for informed decisions on manpower, maintenance planning, training, and supply chain architecture. product support, acquisition logistics, and sustainment

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, mission-focused environments

• A strong background in U.S. Space Force systems and organizations, with particular emphasis on Space Systems Command

• In-depth understanding of operating environments including ground, near-space, space, and systems operating within and between these domains

This will “WOW” us if you are:

• DAWIA (Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act) Certification for Life Cycle Logistics (LCL).

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Product Support Logistics Specialist position.

Compensation & Benefits:Pay Ranges: From $89,900.00 - $110,000.00 per year based on years of experience, degree and any special skills and knowledge that they may bring to the position. ARA offers competitive benefits that address our employees’ needs now and in the future. Learn more about each of our benefits at https://www.ara.com/benefits/. #LI-AB1

Qualifications Education

Preferred

Bachelors

Experience

Preferred

Product support strategy development and sustainment activities

Behaviors

Preferred

Team Player : Works well as a member of a group

Innovative : Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking

Detail Oriented : Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

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