Senior B-1 Readiness & Sustainment SME

ASI Government; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ASI Government is seeking a Senior B-1 Readiness and Sustainment SME to support the Air Force B-1 SPO at Tinker AFB. The role focuses on establishing baselines, data assessment, and an MVP roadmap to improve fleet readiness and decision making.

The ideal candidate has DoD aviation experience, can translate complex operations into actionable requirements, and will work with engineers, logisticians, and leaders to drive practical solutions. On-site work at Tinker AFB is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and eight or more years of relevant DoD experience in aviation readiness, weapon-system sustainment, logistics, maintenance, supply chain, engineering, product support, or program management.
• Strong facilitation and executive communication skills, including the ability to lead discussions with senior leaders and technical specialists and produce clear written decision products.
• Experience assessing current processes and converting findings into a future-state operating approach, prioritized improvements, and specific implementation actions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the team's senior B-1 readiness and sustainment advisor, providing practical context on fleet management, maintenance, engineering, logistics, supply, depot production, and field operations.
• Lead interviews and working sessions that document current readiness processes, decision rights, information flows, constraints, and pain points across the sustainment ecosystem.
• Help define the future-state readiness management approach, including decision forums, roles, key performance indicators, business rules, escalation paths, and recurring management routines.
• Translate operational needs into functional use cases, analytic requirements, data definitions, and acceptance criteria for a prioritized minimum viable product.
• Guide the assessment of readiness data sources, mappings, normalization needs, data quality, system interfaces, and integration constraints in partnership with data engineers and architects.
• Conduct or advise root-cause analyses of readiness drivers, including maintenance, supply, MICAP, production, engineering, and reliability issues, using FMEA or comparable methods when appropriate.
• Develop decision-ready briefings, process maps, requirements, risk and action trackers, and an implementation roadmap that can be incorporated into the SPO's routine operations.
• Engage B-1 stakeholders, including depot, wing and squadron, supply-chain, DLA, and other enterprise partners, to validate findings and remove barriers.

Skills

Facilitation skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree and 8+ years DoD experience

Job description

ASI Government is seeking a Senior B-1 Readiness and Sustainment SME to support the Air Force B-1 SPO at Tinker AFB. The role focuses on establishing baselines, data assessment, and an MVP roadmap to improve fleet readiness and decision making.

The ideal candidate has DoD aviation experience, can translate complex operations into actionable requirements, and will work with engineers, logisticians, and leaders to drive practical solutions. On-site work at Tinker AFB is required.