Senior Industrial Engineer, Fleet Sustainment Analytics

Lever, Inc.; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI in the United States seeks a Staff Industrial Engineer, Sustainment Analytics, to lead data-driven sustainment decisions by integrating maintenance, FRACAS, failure and repair, supply-chain, labor, and fleet data. You will craft analyses and recommendations that optimize maintenance levels, spares, manpower, and lifecycle cost, improving fleet availability and total cost of ownership.

The role partners with multiple engineering and operations teams to ensure sustainment decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Data Analytics, or related discipline (equivalent practical experience considered).
• 5+ years in industrial engineering, sustainment, logistics, or related complex hardware environments.
• Experience using maintenance, reliability, repair, inventory, supply-chain, or fleet data to build quantitative analyses and recommendations.
• Experience performing sustainment trade studies; ability to build structured models and communicate uncertainty and risk.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, R, MATLAB, or comparable tools for data analysis and reporting.
• Ability to integrate cross-functional inputs into actionable, data-driven sustainment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own sustainment decision analysis for fielded aircraft systems, incl. maintenance-level determinations and spares optimization.
• Build and maintain integrated fleet-readiness models linking reliability, demand, inventory, and readiness outcomes.
• Develop repair-versus-replace and repair-network business cases using data-driven insights.
• Analyze maintenance records and supply-chain data to identify downtime drivers and opportunities for efficiency.
• Develop demand forecasts, provisioning strategies, and manpower analyses to improve readiness and cost.

Skills

SQL

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

R

MATLAB

data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering

Tools

Salesforce

Foundry

Job description

Shield AI in the United States seeks a Staff Industrial Engineer, Sustainment Analytics, to lead data-driven sustainment decisions by integrating maintenance, FRACAS, failure and repair, supply-chain, labor, and fleet data. You will craft analyses and recommendations that optimize maintenance levels, spares, manpower, and lifecycle cost, improving fleet availability and total cost of ownership.

The role partners with multiple engineering and operations teams to ensure sustainment decisions