# Depot Operations Manager **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Lawton, OK **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $105,300.00 - $190,350.00 **Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain **Industry**: Aerospace & Defence **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Lawton-OK/Depot-Operations-Manager_R-00196922-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/depot-operations-manager-8bc29bca-00b/ ## Description The Logistics & Sustainment Department at Leidos is seeking a Depot Operations Manager to establish, lead, and continuously improve depot maintenance and sustainment operations supporting advanced defense systems across the Land Systems portfolio. The Depot Operations Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and integrating depot activities including induction, inspection, repair, overhaul, modification, testing, configuration management, inventory control, production scheduling, and equipment return to operational readiness. **Primary Responsibilities** **Depot Operations Leadership** - Lead all depot maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification, reset, refurbishment, and modernization activities. - Establish and execute depot operating procedures, work instructions, and standardized business processes. - Direct production scheduling and workload balancing to achieve customer commitments for cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance. - Manage equipment induction, diagnostics, repair, testing, acceptance, packaging, shipment, and return-to-service activities. - Ensure depot operations comply with contractual requirements, company policies, and applicable government regulations. **Sustainment Integration** - Integrate depot operations with Product Support, Field Services, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Publications Operations, and Training & Curriculum. - Coordinate engineering changes, technical directives, maintenance procedures, and configuration management activities. - Support development and execution of Life Cycle Sustainment Plans, Product Support Strategies, and Integrated Product Support activities. - Participate in Integrated Product Teams and customer technical reviews. **Operational Planning** - Develop depot production plans, workforce requirements, facility utilization plans, and resource forecasts. - Establish depot performance metrics and monitor throughput, turnaround time, schedule adherence, backlog, labor utilization, inventory accuracy, and quality performance. - Identify operational risks and implement corrective actions to improve efficiency and readiness. - Support proposal development through labor estimates, Basis of Estimate (BOE) inputs, depot concepts, and sustainment planning. **Asset and Materiel Management** - Ensure accountability of Government Furnished Property (GFP), Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), and company assets. - Oversee warehouse operations, inventory management, repairable assets, spares, and material flow throughout depot operations. - Coordinate with supply chain personnel to ensure material availability aligns with production schedules. **Leadership** - Build, mentor, and lead a multidisciplinary workforce supporting depot operations. - Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, safety, collaboration, and technical excellence. - Develop standardized training and qualification requirements for depot personnel. - Provide regular operational updates and performance assessments to department and program leadership. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience. - Experience leading depot maintenance, production, logistics, sustainment, manufacturing, or repair operations supporting Department of Defense programs. - Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams. - Knowledge of Integrated Product Support (IPS) principles and lifecycle sustainment. - Experience with production scheduling, workforce planning, and operational resource management. - Experience managing government or commercial property accountability. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience supporting Integrated Air and Missile Defense, radar, missile, command and control, or other complex defense systems. - Previous experience supporting IFPC or comparable Army weapon systems. - Knowledge of DoDI 5000.91, Product Support Management, and Life Cycle Sustainment Planning. - Experience using enterprise business systems such as Costpoint, Solumina, ProVM, SAP, Windchill, Teamcenter, JIRA, or equivalent tools. - Lean Six Sigma certification. - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. - DAU Life Cycle Logistics certification. - Prior military maintenance, logistics, sustainment, or depot leadership experience. - Experience supporting proposal development and Basis of Estimate preparation. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Depot maintenance operations - Production planning and scheduling - Logistics and sustainment management - Repair and overhaul operations - Configuration management - Supply chain integration - Inventory and warehouse management - Government property accountability - Integrated Product Support - Root cause analysis - Continuous process improvement - Workforce development - Cross-functional leadership - Executive communication - Customer engagement ### Nice to have - Experience supporting Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Previous experience supporting IFPC or comparable Army weapon systems - Knowledge of DoDI 5000.91 - Lean Six Sigma certification - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification - DAU Life Cycle Logistics certification --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Lawton-OK/Depot-Operations-Manager_R-00196922-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)