Title:
Acquisition Logistics Subject-Matter Expert (SME)
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Position Summary:
KBR is seeking an experienced Acquisition Logistics Subject-Matter Expert (SME) to provide senior lifecycle logistics, product support, and sustainment planning support to a U.S. Government program office executing a rapid acquisition effort to field next-generation ground-launched counter-air capabilities. The Acquisition Logistics SME will serve as a key advisor to program leadership and technical teams, helping integrate logistics and supportability requirements across program planning, engineering, testing, production, fielding, and sustainment activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior acquisition logistics and product-support advisor for a rapid acquisition program fielding next-generation ground-launched counter-air capabilities.
- Provide lifecycle logistics expertise to support program planning, acquisition strategy, systems engineering, test and evaluation, production, fielding, sustainment, modernization, and disposal activities.
- Develop, update, and support execution of lifecycle sustainment plans, product-support strategies, acquisition logistics plans, and other logistics-related program documentation.
- Integrate supportability, maintainability, reliability, availability, supply support, technical-data, support-equipment, training, transportation, and maintenance requirements into program planning and technical baselines.
- Coordinate logistics planning with Government program managers, engineers, test organizations, contracting personnel, financial managers, production organizations, sustainment stakeholders, and operational users.
- Analyze and recommend sustainment concepts, maintenance approaches, supply-support strategies, interim support requirements, contractor logistics support, organic support options, and transition-to-sustainment approaches.
- Identify logistics, readiness, supply-chain, technical-data, maintenance, repair, obsolescence, and lifecycle-cost risks; develop mitigation options for Government consideration.
- Support logistics planning and execution for developmental testing, operational testing, production readiness, fielding, and post-fielding sustainment assessments.
- Author and review technical and programmatic documentation—including requirements documents, acquisition strategies, engineering change proposals, test plans, contract requirements, and contractor deliverables—for lifecycle logistics implications.
- Support development and tracking of logistics metrics, readiness measures, sustainment performance objectives, action items, risks, and decision logs.
- Prepare decision-ready briefings, issue papers, executive summaries, analysis products, and recommendations for Government program leadership.
- Participate in integrated product teams, technical reviews, logistics working groups, risk-review boards, and program-management reviews.
- Mentor junior logisticians and analysts and promote disciplined, data-driven acquisition logistics and product-support practices.
Work Environment:
- Location: On-site (Eglin AFB, FL)
- Travel Requirements: Low to Medium, 25%
- Working Hours: Standard – Core hours 0900 - 1500
Qualifications:
Required:
- Active DoD Secret clearance.
- Associates degree
- Extensive progressively responsible experience in acquisition logistics, lifecycle logistics, integrated product support, sustainment, or supply-chain management within a defense, Government, or similarly complex environment.
- Demonstrated experience supporting a major defense acquisition, rapid acquisition, aerospace, missile, air defense, counter-air, or other complex weapon-system program.
- Experience developing or supporting lifecycle sustainment plans, product-support strategies, acquisition logistics plans, sustainment strategies, or equivalent lifecycle logistics documentation.
- Demonstrated experience integrating logistics and supportability requirements into acquisition, program-management, and systems-engineering activities.
- Experience assessing logistics and sustainment factors, including reliability, maintainability, availability, supply support, maintenance planning, technical data, support equipment, training, transportation, obsolescence, and lifecycle cost.
- Experience supporting one or more acquisition lifecycle phases, including development, test and evaluation, production, fielding, sustainment, modernization, or disposal.
- Demonstrated ability to identify logistics and sustainment risks, evaluate alternatives, develop mitigation strategies, and provide recommendations to senior Government stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop briefings, issue papers, reports, and executive-level decision-support products.
Desired:
- Experience serving as a Product Support Manager, Deputy Product Support Manager, Life Cycle Logistics Manager, Integrated Product Team Lead, or equivalent senior logistics lead.
- Experience supporting an Acquisition Category I or Acquisition Category II program, or an equivalent major defense acquisition program, including authoring required program documentation
- Experience supporting ground-launched air-defense, counter-air, missile, munitions, launcher, radar, command-and-control, or integrated air and missile defense programs.
- Experience with rapid acquisition, rapid prototyping, rapid fielding, urgent delivery, or accelerated production activities.
- Experience with performance-based logistics, contractor logistics support, organic sustainment, depot maintenance planning, supply-chain management, or public-private partnerships.
- Experience with provisioning, cataloging, technical data, configuration management, support equipment, maintenance planning, supply-chain risk management, or obsolescence management.
- Experience supporting Government program offices, acquisition organizations, test organizations, or defense contractor program teams.
- Relevant professional certification in life cycle logistics, program management, systems engineering, supply-chain management, or related discipline.
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