Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Specialist

Job Title:  Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Specialist

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Employment Type: Temp to Direct (12 Months)

Industry:  Aerospace and Defense

Compensation: $62.00-$67.00/Hour

Schedule: 40 Hours/Week 

About the Opportunity:

• Take the lead on integrated logistics and sustainment strategy for complex programs spanning legacy systems, technology refresh initiatives, and future system development. In this highly autonomous role, you'll shape supportability, maintenance, provisioning, and lifecycle cost strategies while partnering with engineering, program management, supply chain, field support, and customer teams.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Lead integrated logistics support planning and ensure supportability requirements are incorporated throughout the system lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain key sustainment deliverables, including ILSPs, LCSPs, LCCAs, LORAs, PPLs, MTAs, SERDs, and related PSA/LSA documentation.
• Perform supportability, provisioning, sparing, repair-level, DMSMS, maintenance, and sustainment risk analyses and translate findings into actionable program recommendations.
• Define organizational, intermediate, and depot-level maintenance concepts for electronic systems and equipment while evaluating lifecycle cost, readiness, maintainability, and affordability.
• Provide technical leadership during design and program reviews, customer engagements, and cross-functional activities while mentoring others within the ILS discipline.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 10+ years of integrated logistics support, sustainment, or logistics systems engineering experience.

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• 6+ years of experience in logistics engineering, sustainment engineering, or integrated logistics support for defense, aerospace, or similarly regulated technical programs.
• Experience performing Product Support Analysis (PSA) and Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) in accordance with GEIA-STD-0007, MIL-STD-1388-2B, or equivalent industry standards.
• Proficiency using LSA, PSA, and logistics data management tools and databases such as Slicwave, EAGLE, Powerlog, or similar applications.
• Experience using supportability and cost analysis tools such as Compass (LORA), CASA (LCCA), and comparable applications.
• Military experience in logistics, with hands‑on involvement in ILS elements such as supply support, maintenance planning, and sustainment operations.
• Demonstrated experience developing lifecycle sustainment documentation and supportability artifacts for complex hardware systems.
• Experience defining and implementing support and maintenance concepts at the organizational, intermediate, and depot levels.
• Experience collaborating across systems engineering, design engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, program management, and customer organizations to influence product support outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging artificial intelligence tools and techniques to enhance quality, improve decision-making, and increase efficiency across core job functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex logistics and sustainment concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills
• Research skills
• Professional communication

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
• Travel up to 10% in support of customer meetings, technical interchange meetings, program reviews, and other off-site program activities.
• Requires the ability to obtain an Active Secret Clearance
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person,' as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.

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