Sustainment Project Lead (Integrated Surveillance Towers)

Location: Hybrid in Washington, DC, US; in-person presence at National Place one day per week and travel up to 25% required.

Salary: $125,000–$175,000 per year.

Company

Support a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program within the U.S. Border Patrol Program Management Office Directorate.

What you will do

• Lead sustainment planning and execution for the Integrated Surveillance Tower portfolio.
• Manage operations, maintenance, logistics, technical refresh, configuration control, reliability, availability, and lifecycle support activities.
• Apply systems engineering practices to assess performance, identify issues, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend technical and project solutions.
• Coordinate acquisition, engineering, deployment, logistics, operational, vendor, and executive stakeholders to maintain operationally effective fielded systems.
• Track performance metrics, sustainment risks, lifecycle cost drivers, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Prepare lifecycle plans, logistics support plans, acquisition documentation, briefings, decision papers, reports, schedules, risk registers, and executive communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, engineering management, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, information systems, operations research, logistics, project management, or a related technical field.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in project management, systems engineering, lifecycle sustainment, integrated logistics support, or technology portfolio management.
• Experience managing sustainment or lifecycle support for complex fielded technology systems.
• Experience applying systems engineering practices to operational systems, including requirements analysis, configuration management, risk management, performance assessment, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience coordinating technical, operational, logistics, acquisition, and executive stakeholder groups.
• Ability to develop and manage project documentation, schedules, briefings, risk registers, performance reports, and decision-support materials.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including briefing senior leaders and translating technical issues for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to travel up to 25% and work in person at National Place in Washington, DC one day per week.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, engineering management, business administration, public administration, logistics, acquisition management, or a related field.
• PMP, DAWIA, FAC-P/PM, INCOSE CSEP, ITIL, or another relevant certification.
• Experience supporting DHS, CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, DoD, or another federal law enforcement or national security organization.
• Experience with surveillance systems, sensor towers, remote video surveillance, communications, command and control, border security technology, or similar fielded operational technology.
• Experience sustaining geographically dispersed assets in remote or austere environments.
• Familiarity with federal acquisition lifecycle processes, contract oversight, vendor performance management, and government project management reviews.
• Experience with reliability, availability, maintainability, supportability, cybersecurity, network sustainment, software maintenance, hardware refresh, or technology obsolescence management.
• Experience developing or reviewing lifecycle cost estimates, spend plans, independent government cost estimates, or acquisition planning documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work with government program managers, contracting officials, operational users, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Regular field engagement, site assessments, acceptance activities, operational feedback sessions, and sustainment reviews.
• Work supporting border security operations and the reliability, availability, supportability, and operational effectiveness of deployed systems.