# Sustainment Program Manager

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Sensors organisation seeks an experienced Sustainment Program Manager for the Army's long-range persistent surveillance program.

The successful candidate will support a multidisciplinary team, drive system availability, proactively manage risks and opportunities, and resolve complex technical and operational issues in a fast-paced environment.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Manage day-to-day sustainment activities for multiple fielded sensor systems both CONUS and OCONUS supporting STARE and DHS customer.

- Oversee sustainment contracts, including cost, schedule, performance, and contractual deliverables.

- Work closely with the Logistics & Sustainment Functional department.

- Lead team in Coordinating maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and logistics support to maintain system operational availability.

- Work closely with Field Service Representatives (FSRs), engineering, logistics, procurement, and program leadership.

- Manage sustainment budgets, labor, material purchases, travel, and funding requirements.

- Track system performance, identify risks, and develop corrective action plans to resolve issues.

- Coordinate CONUS and OCONUS field support, deployments, and maintenance activities.

- Monitor material requirements, spare parts availability, shipping, and supply chain issues.

- Serve as a primary point of contact for customers regarding sustainment activities, priorities, and system status.

- Develop and maintain program schedules, status reports, risk registers, and other contractual deliverables.

- Identify opportunities to improve sustainment processes, reduce costs, and increase system reliability.

- Support proposal development, cost estimates, contract modifications, and future sustainment planning.

- Coordinate across multiple departments to ensure resources are available to meet program requirements.

- Ensure compliance with company policies, contractual requirements, and government regulations.

**Required Qualifications**

- BA/BS or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 years or prior relevant experience.

- Experience in program management, sustainment, logistics, or field service operations.

- Strong understanding of government contracts, budgets, schedules, and program execution.

- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities.

- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, leadership, engineers, and field personnel.

- Strong problem-solving, organisational, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

- Active DoD Secret clearance. (U.S. Citizenship is required)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience supporting DoD programs and deployed military systems.

- Familiarity with IDIQ, CPFF, and FFP contract structures.

- Experience with OCONUS logistics, transportation, and export requirements.

- Knowledge of system availability metrics, reliability, maintenance planning, and lifecycle sustainment.

- Experience with government contract deliverables (CDRLs), risk management, and financial reporting.

- Familiarity with Leidos program management and financial systems.

**Benefits**

No benefits mentioned in the job posting.

**Pay Range:** $116,350.00 - $210,325.00

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## Skills

### Required
- program management
- sustainment
- logistics
- field service operations
- government contracts
- budgets
- schedules
- program execution
- Microsoft Office applications

### Nice to have
- DoD programs
- IDIQ
- CPFF
- FFP contract structures
- OCONUS logistics
- transportation
- export requirements
- system availability metrics
- reliability
- maintenance planning
- lifecycle sustainment

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