Sustainment Engineer Capability Lead

The Logistics & Sustainment Department is seeking an experienced Sustainment Engineer Capability Lead to lead and develop the department’s sustainment engineering capability while directly supporting program execution. This is a first-level managerial position responsible for workforce leadership, capability development, program support, and integration of sustainment engineering practices across supported programs. The manager will lead sustainment engineering personnel, develop common processes and standards, build workforce proficiency, and ensure the capability remains aligned with current and emerging program requirements. The position operates within a matrix environment. Programs retain responsibility for program requirements, priorities, technical direction, cost, and schedule. The Sustainment Engineer Capability Lead provides functional and people leadership for the sustainment engineering discipline and works closely with program leadership to ensure qualified personnel, effective processes, and appropriate capabilities are available to meet program needs. Primary Responsibilities - The Sustainment Engineer Capability Lead will: ● Lead, manage, develop, and mentor sustainment engineering personnel supporting multiple programs. ● Perform and oversee direct sustainment engineering work to maintain an understanding of program requirements, workload, technical challenges, and workforce needs. ● Manage employee performance, development, objectives, workload alignment, and professional growth. ● Lead the department’s sustainment engineering capability and ensure it evolves with program and business requirements. ● Assess workforce capacity, skills, experience, and future demand to identify capability gaps and support hiring and staffing decisions. ● Develop, integrate, and continuously improve sustainment engineering processes, methods, templates, tools, and standards. ● Establish and maintain the People, Process, and Training required for an effective sustainment engineering capability. ● Support development of sustainment strategies beginning early in the system lifecycle and continuing through fielding, operations, and sustainment. ● Integrate reliability, maintainability, availability, supportability, maintenance, supply support, technical data, training, facilities, support equipment, and other sustainment considerations into system and program decisions. ● Lead or oversee sustainment analyses supporting maintenance concepts, sparing, support equipment, manpower, training, lifecycle cost, readiness, and support strategies. ● Work across engineering, product support, provisioning, technical publications, training, field services, depot operations, program management, and other disciplines to integrate end-to-end logistics. ● Participate in design and technical reviews to ensure sustainment considerations are identified early enough to influence system design and lifecycle decisions. ● Establish peer review and quality-control practices for sustainment engineering products. ● Support development and review of contract deliverables and program documentation requiring sustainment engineering input. ● Identify opportunities to use data, digital tools, automation, and analytics to improve sustainment planning and decision-making. ● Support recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, development, and succession planning for sustainment engineering personnel. ● Provide department and program leadership visibility of workforce capacity, capability health, execution risks, and opportunities for improvement. Capability Leadership - The Sustainment Engineer Capability Lead is accountable for three primary areas: 1. People : Build and develop the sustainment engineering workforce through leadership, coaching, performance management, workforce planning, recruiting, succession planning, and deliberate professional development. 2. Process: Establish repeatable and scalable sustainment