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Support Equipment Engineer (R5913)

Shield AI· Aircraft Operations Division – Customer Operations
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Dallas, TX, Washington, DC$100k - $150kFull Time EmployeePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff level logistics and sustainment role for an autonomous aircraft program, leading logistics planning, supply support, sustainment analysis, and lifecycle support across development, flight test, production, and operational sustainment.

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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance, business, or a related field; equivalent military or defense logistics experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment
  • Demonstrated 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, maintainability drivers, reliability growth, availability metrics, and field performance analysis, 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.
  • Active and current security clearance with ability to obtain SAP

Skills

Required:Maintenance Task AnalysisLogistics Control Number (LCN)Support Equipment design and developmentSpare parts provisioning & inventory managementReliability and Maintainability (R&M)Engineering drawing & BOM interpretation

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
  • Salary compensation influenced by skill set, experience, licenses/certifications, and location
  • Offers contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check
  • Equal opportunity employer; accommodations available on request
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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