Sustainment Project Lead - Integrated Surveillance Tower

LMI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI seeks a Sustainment Project Lead – Integrated Surveillance Towers to support a CBP program within the USBP PMO. The role provides leadership for sustainment, acquisition support, program management, systems engineering, deployment, and logistics across the Integrated Surveillance Tower portfolio.

The successful candidate will lead a cross-functional team, engage government managers, vendors, and stakeholders, and ensure reliable, available, and operational surveillance capabilities in border

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (engineering, computer science, logistics, etc.).
• Minimum 8 years in project management, systems engineering, or lifecycle sustainment.
• Experience managing sustainment for complex fielded systems.
• Ability to brief senior leaders and translate technical issues for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead sustainment planning and execution for the Integrated Surveillance Tower portfolio.
• Coordinate across operations, engineering, logistics, and acquisition teams.
• Track performance metrics and lifecycle cost drivers; report findings.
• Develop sustainment strategies, risk mitigation, and change control processes.
• Support budget, schedules, and executive-level communications.

Skills

Systems engineering

Lifecycle sustainment

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Configuration management

Risk management

Executive briefing

Travel readiness

In-person collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field

Experience with DoD/ DHS programs

Job description

Overview

LMI seeks a Sustainment Project Lead – Integrated Surveillance Towers to support a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program within the U.S. Border Patrol Program Management Office Directorate. The Sustainment Project Lead will provide leadership and oversight for sustainment, acquisition support, program management, systems engineering, deployment, and logistics activities supporting the Integrated Surveillance Tower portfolio.

The Sustainment Project Lead leads a cross-functional team of acquisition, program management, engineering, deployment, and logistics professionals; ensures high-quality delivery of project products and services; and works closely with Government program managers, contracting officials, operational users, vendors, and other stakeholders. The position requires a customer-service mindset, strong leadership, technical and programmatic judgment, and proactive engagement.

The successful candidate will manage sustainment planning and execution, system performance monitoring, lifecycle support, configuration management, risk management, and continuous improvement activities to help ensure deployed surveillance tower capabilities remain reliable, available, supportable, and operationally effective in support of USBP border security operations.

The position requires in-person presence at National Place in Washington, DC, one day per week, and travel up to 25% to support field engagement, Project reviews, site assessments, vendor coordination, and operational stakeholder meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead sustainment planning and execution for the Integrated Surveillance Tower portfolio within the U.S. Border Patrol Program Management Office Directorate.
• Manage sustainment activities across system operations, maintenance, logistics, technical refresh, configuration control, reliability, availability, and lifecycle support.
• Apply systems engineering principles to assess system performance, identify sustainment issues, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend technical and Project solutions.
• Coordinate with operational users, engineering teams, acquisition staff, logistics personnel, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure deployed systems remain operationally effective.
• Track and report system performance metrics, including availability, reliability, maintainability, service response times, repair trends, and lifecycle cost drivers.
• Support development and maintenance of sustainment strategies, lifecycle management plans, integrated logistics support plans, performance work statements, acquisition documentation, and related Project artifacts.
• Identify sustainment risks, issues, and dependencies, and develop mitigation plans for Government review and approval.
• Support configuration management and change control processes for hardware, software, network, sensor, communications, and infrastructure components.
• Evaluate obsolescence, technical refresh, sparing, maintenance, cybersecurity, and interoperability considerations across the tower portfolio.
• Coordinate field site visits, assessments, acceptance activities, operational feedback sessions, and sustainment reviews.
• Support budget formulation, execution tracking, cost estimates, and resource planning related to sustainment activities.
• Prepare briefings, decision papers, status reports, risk registers, issue logs, schedules, and executive-level communications.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and ensure timely follow-up on action items, deliverables, risks, and stakeholder decisions.
• Ensure sustainment activities align with applicable DHS, CBP, and U.S. Border Patrol policies, standards, acquisition processes, and operational priorities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, engineering management, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, information systems, operations research, logistics, Project management, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in Project management, systems engineering, lifecycle sustainment, integrated logistics support, or technology portfolio management.
• Experience managing sustainment or lifecycle support for complex fielded technology systems.
• Demonstrated ability to apply systems engineering practices to operational systems, including requirements analysis, configuration management, risk management, performance assessment, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience coordinating across technical, operational, logistics, acquisition, and executive stakeholder groups.
• Ability to develop and manage Project documentation, schedules, briefings, risk registers, performance reports, and decision support materials.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing senior leaders and translating technical issues for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Ability to work in person at National Place in Washington, DC, one day per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, engineering management, business administration, public administration, logistics, acquisition management, or a related field.
• PMP, DAWIA, FAC-P/PM, INCOSE CSEP, ITIL, or other relevant certification.
• Experience supporting DHS, CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, DoD, or another federal law enforcement or national security organization.
• Experience with surveillance systems, sensor towers, remote video surveillance systems, communications systems, command and control systems, border security technology, or similar fielded operational technology.
• Experience with sustainment planning for geographically dispersed assets in remote or austere environments.
• Familiarity with federal acquisition lifecycle processes, contract oversight, vendor performance management, and government Project management reviews.
• Experience with reliability, availability, maintainability, and supportability analysis.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, network sustainment, software maintenance, hardware refresh, or technology obsolescence management.
• Experience developing or reviewing lifecycle cost estimates, spend plans, independent government cost estimates, and acquisition planning documentation.

Core Competencies

• Project and portfolio management
• Systems engineering and lifecycle management
• Sustainment strategy and execution
• Integrated logistics support
• Risk, issue, and change management
• Technical performance analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• Vendor and contract coordination
• Executive communication
• Operational problem solving
• Fielded technology support

Salary Range: $125,000.00 To $175,000.00

The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.

Job Locations

US-DC-Washington, DC