# Site Lead / PMO Liaison **Company**: Leidos **Location**: St. Louis, MO **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/St-Louis-MO/Daily-Operations-Manager---GEOINT-Operations-Support_R-00195915-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_014a9a8c-eae ## Description Leidos is seeking a dynamic, mission-focused Site Lead / PMO Liaison to support its GEOINT operations at a customer site in St. Louis, Missouri. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who thrives at the center of mission operations,building relationships, solving problems, supporting employees, and ensuring teams have what they need to succeed. As the primary on-site representative for Leidos, you will serve as a critical connection between employees, customer leadership, and the Leidos Portfolio Management Office (PMO). You will maintain a strong presence across the site, engage directly with mission stakeholders, anticipate operational challenges, and drive solutions that keep the mission moving forward. **Primary Responsibilities** **Site Leadership & Daily Operations** - Serve as Leidos' primary on-site representative and point of contact for daily operational matters at the St. Louis customer location. - Maintain an active, visible presence across the site, engaging regularly with employees, customer representatives, and mission stakeholders. - Proactively identify operational challenges, develop practical solutions, and take ownership of issues through resolution. - Coordinate daily site activities to support mission continuity, operational readiness, and employee effectiveness. - Respond quickly to emerging issues, exercising sound judgment and escalating matters to the PMO when appropriate. - Support employee onboarding, site access coordination, and integration into customer operations. **Customer Engagement & Relationship Management** - Build and maintain strong, productive relationships with customer leadership, mission partners, and site personnel. - Serve as a trusted liaison between Leidos employees, customer representatives, and the PMO. - Navigate complex customer environments with professionalism, diplomacy, and a solutions-oriented mindset. - Anticipate customer concerns, clarify expectations, and work collaboratively to resolve issues before they affect mission performance. - Represent Leidos during customer meetings, site visits, leadership engagements, and other operational activities. - Coordinate and support visits from Leidos leadership, customer representatives, and newly arriving personnel. **PMO Coordination & Program Support** - Serve as the primary coordination link between St. Louis site operations and the Leidos PMO. - Maintain accurate staffing information, including personnel assignments, vacancies, employee transitions, and onboarding status. - Prepare, validate, and submit customer staffing sheets, operational updates, and required program deliverables. - Track action items, reporting deadlines, and administrative requirements to ensure timely and accurate completion. - Coordinate with PMO stakeholders on staffing, personnel concerns, site requirements, and operational priorities. - Keep program leadership informed of site activities, emerging challenges, customer concerns, and potential risks. - Support program management activities while maintaining a primary focus on daily operational execution and customer engagement. **Security, Compliance & Site Coordination** - Coordinate with Leidos Security, customer security representatives, and program leadership to support personnel access and site security requirements. - Assist with security-related administrative processes, onboarding requirements, and compliance tracking. - Help ensure personnel understand and follow applicable customer site procedures, security protocols, and operational requirements. - Coordinate visitor arrivals, leadership visits, facility access, and associated logistical requirements. - Identify potential security or compliance concerns and communicate them through established reporting channels. **Employee Engagement & Mission Support** - Foster a positive, accountable, mission-focused environment that promotes employee engagement, performance, and retention. - Maintain an accessible leadership presence, serving as a trusted resource for employees navigating workplace concerns or operational challenges. - Build strong working relationships with team leads, analysts, and other on-site personnel. - Proactively recognize staffing challenges, employee concerns, and emerging morale issues before they affect mission execution. - Partner with program leadership and the PMO to address workforce needs, support employee development, and improve operational effectiveness. - Promote a culture of ownership, responsiveness, teamwork, and continuous improvement. **Required Qualifications** - Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain approval for a polygraph. - Bachelor's degree and relevant professional experience in intelligence operations, site leadership, operations management, or a related discipline. - Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), or similarly complex mission environments. - 5+ years of experience supporting GEOINT operations or related intelligence missions. - Previous experience as a Team Lead, Site Lead, Operations Lead, Mission Lead, or similar customer-facing leadership role. - Familiarity with GEOINT and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) operations and mission workflows. - Demonstrated ability to coordinate daily operations, manage competing priorities, and resolve challenges in dynamic environments. - Experience engaging directly with government customers, senior stakeholders, or mission leadership. - Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust, establish credibility, and maintain effective relationships across diverse teams. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience preparing status reports, briefing leadership, and coordinating operational requirements. - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, particularly in staffing accountability, deliverable tracking, and operational reporting. - Working knowledge of personnel security, facility access procedures, and compliance requirements within classified environments. - Demonstrated initiative, independent judgment, adaptability, and the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision. - Ability and willingness to work on-site at the customer location in St. Louis, MO, five days per week. **Preferred Qualifications** - 10+ years of experience supporting DoD or IC missions. - Experience supporting multiple work teams or coordinating operations across different mission elements. - Experience maintaining government staffing reports, contractor personnel accountability records, and contractual deliverables. - Familiarity with security coordination, personnel onboarding, and access procedures at classified government facilities. - Demonstrated success building relationships and resolving challenges in complex customer environments. - Experience working with geographically distributed program management teams. - Familiarity with Leidos processes and program management support functions. ## Skills ### Required - GEOINT - Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) - intelligence operations - site leadership - operations management - TS/SCI clearance - polygraph ### Nice to have - 10+ years of experience supporting DoD or IC missions - security coordination - personnel onboarding - access procedures at classified government facilities --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/St-Louis-MO/Daily-Operations-Manager---GEOINT-Operations-Support_R-00195915-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)