Senior UAS Logistics & Sustainment Lead

Shield; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI seeks an experienced Staff Product Support professional to lead logistics planning, sustainment analysis, and lifecycle support for a next-generation autonomous aircraft system. The role spans design through field support and requires hands-on experience with maintenance task analysis and supply chain execution.

The ideal candidate has strong defense aviation logistics background and will coordinate with engineering, program management, manufacturing, and customer teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 8+ years in UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment.
• Experience with Maintenance Task Analysis and development of maintenance planning data.
• Expertise in Logistics Control Number structures and their use in provisioning, maintenance planning, and supportability analysis.
• Experience with Reliability and Maintainability principles, including failure modes, maintainability drivers, reliability growth, availability metrics, and field performance analysis.
• Hands-on supply support experience, including spares planning, provisioning, inventory management, parts forecasting, repairables management, and sustainment execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead logistics and sustainment planning activities for a UAS program across design, production, deployment, and field support phases.
• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated logistics support products, including maintenance concepts, support equipment design, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation.
• Perform and manage Maintenance Task Analysis to define preventive and corrective maintenance requirements, task frequencies, required tools, support equipment, skill levels, labor hours, and maintenance levels.
• Develop and maintain Logistics Control Number structures to support provisioning, maintenance planning, technical documentation, configuration tracking, and sustainment data management.
• Partner with engineering, program management, manufacturing, supply chain, field operations, and customer stakeholders to ensure logistics requirements are incorporated into system design and program execution.
• Support Reliability and Maintainability activities, including Level of Repair Analysis, FMECA data analysis, maintainability assessments, corrective action planning, reliability growth inputs, and operational availability improvement initiatives.
• Lead supply support activities, including spares analysis, provisioning, parts forecasting, inventory planning, reorder recommendations, repair pipeline coordination, sustainment risk identification, and obsolescence management.
• Coordinate with suppliers, depots, repair vendors, and internal teams to ensure timely availability of parts, support equipment, and logistics resources.
• Support proposal development, basis of estimate inputs, staffing plans, sustainment strategies, and logistics cost estimates for new and existing UAS programs.
• Ensure logistics activities comply with applicable defense standards, contract requirements, export control requirements, and company processes.

Skills

UAS Logistics

Sustainment planning

Maintenance analysis

Supply chain

Cross-functional

Security clearance

Education

Bachelors degree

Tools

SAP

Oracle

PowerLOG-J

SLICwave

COMPASS

OPUS10

EAGLE

Job description

Shield AI seeks an experienced Staff Product Support professional to lead logistics planning, sustainment analysis, and lifecycle support for a next-generation autonomous aircraft system. The role spans design through field support and requires hands-on experience with maintenance task analysis and supply chain execution.

The ideal candidate has strong defense aviation logistics background and will coordinate with engineering, program management, manufacturing, and customer teams to ensure