Staff Logistics & Support Equipment Engineer

Shield; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI seeks an experienced Staff Logistics Manager, Support Equipment to lead logistics planning and sustainment for a next-generation autonomous aircraft program. You will drive maintenance concepts, provisioning inputs, and spares planning across development, production, and field support.

Requires hands-on experience with Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Numbers, reliability and maintainability artifacts, and extensive supply chain execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military/defense logistics experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment.
• Experience with Maintenance Task Analysis and development of maintenance planning data.
• Expertise of Logistics Control Number structures and their use in provisioning, maintenance planning, and supportability analysis.
• Experience with Reliability and Maintainability principles, including failure modes and maintainability drivers, reliability growth, availability metrics, and field performance analysis, and LORA development.

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.
• Lead support equipment design, development, and implementation across all IPTs common ground support equipment and peculiar support equipment.
• 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

Analytical skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military/defense logistics experience

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Costpoint

Teamcenter

Arena

Windchill

Job description

Shield AI seeks an experienced Staff Logistics Manager, Support Equipment to lead logistics planning and sustainment for a next-generation autonomous aircraft program. You will drive maintenance concepts, provisioning inputs, and spares planning across development, production, and field support.

Requires hands-on experience with Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Numbers, reliability and maintainability artifacts, and extensive supply chain execution.