Senior UAS Logistics & Sustainment Lead

Shield; Washington; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a seasoned Staff Product Support professional to lead the logistics planning, supply support, and lifecycle sustainment of a next-gen autonomous aircraft program. You will drive maintenance concepts, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation across design, test, production, and field operations.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in UAS or defense aviation logistics, hands-on Maintenance Task Analysis, and strong cross-functional collaboration with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment.
• Experience with Maintenance Task Analysis and development of maintenance planning data.
• Expertise with 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 LORA development.
• Hands-on supply support experience, including spares planning, provisioning, inventory management, parts forecasting, repairables management, and sustainment execution.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, bills of material, configuration data, maintenance data, and technical documentation.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, program management, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, field service, and customer teams.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to lead logistics efforts in a fast-paced program environment.

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

Logistics planning

Supply chain management

Maintenance planning

Reliability and Maintainability

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance, business

Tools

PowerLOG-J

SLICwave

COMPASS

CASA

OPUS10

EAGLE

SAP / Oracle / Costpoint

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a seasoned Staff Product Support professional to lead the logistics planning, supply support, and lifecycle sustainment of a next-gen autonomous aircraft program. You will drive maintenance concepts, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation across design, test, production, and field operations.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in UAS or defense aviation logistics, hands-on Maintenance Task Analysis, and strong cross-functional collaboration with