Senior Specialist, ILS Systems Engineer

Salary: $100,000 - 145,000 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors degree and at least 6 years of relevant systems engineering, logistics engineering, sustainment, or integrated logistics support experience; or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of related experience; or, without a degree, at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Preferred: At least 6 years of logistics engineering, sustainment engineering, or integrated logistics support experience on defense, aerospace, or similarly regulated technical programs.
• Preferred: Experience with Product Support Analysis and Logistics Support Analysis under GEIA-STD-0007, MIL-STD-1388-2B, or equivalent standards.
• Preferred: Proficiency with logistics data management tools such as Slicwave, EAGLE, Powerlog, or similar applications, and supportability and cost analysis tools such as Compass (LORA) or CASA (LCCA).
• Preferred: Military logistics experience involving ILS elements such as supply support, maintenance planning, and sustainment operations.
• Preferred: Experience developing lifecycle sustainment documentation and supportability artifacts for complex hardware systems, and defining support and maintenance concepts at organizational, intermediate, and depot levels.
• Preferred: Experience working across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, program management, and customer organizations to improve product support outcomes.
• Preferred: Demonstrated use of artificial intelligence tools and techniques to improve quality, decision-making, and efficiency.
• Preferred: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex logistics and sustainment concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Must obtain and maintain any security clearances, statuses, or licenses required for the work; an active clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required clearance is preferred. Clearances may be granted only to U.S. citizens, and applicants must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

• Lead planning, development, and coordination of integrated logistics support elements, ensuring supportability requirements are addressed throughout the system lifecycle.
• Develop, review, and maintain logistics and sustainment documentation, including support plans, lifecycle cost analyses, repair and maintenance analyses, provisioning lists, and related product support and logistics analyses.
• Conduct and interpret supportability, provisioning, sparing, repair-level, DMSMS, maintenance, and sustainment-risk analyses, and turn findings into program recommendations.
• Define support and maintenance concepts for electronic systems and equipment at organizational, intermediate, and depot levels.
• Assess lifecycle cost drivers and help shape sustainment strategies that improve readiness, affordability, maintainability, and long-term supportability.
• Work with engineering, program management, manufacturing, supply chain, training, and customer stakeholders to integrate logistics and sustainment considerations into system design, development, fielding, and ongoing support.
• Present logistics and supportability considerations, risks, and recommended actions in technical, design, and program reviews.
• Use ILS, PSA, and LSA tools, models, and databases to manage logistics data, evaluate performance, and produce analyses, metrics, and reports.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship in ILS, and help improve logistics engineering processes, methods, tools, and practices.
• Engage with customers on sustainment approaches, supportability status, lifecycle impacts, logistics requirements, and data deliverables.
• Travel up to 10% for customer meetings, technical interchange meetings, program reviews, and other off-site program activities.

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We are L3Harris, a defense technology company delivering end-to-end solutions across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in support of national security. We offer an inclusive, engaging workplace focused on employee development, work-life success, community commitment, and excellence. This Senior Specialist Engineer – Integrated Logistics Support Systems Engineer role is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and follows a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, maintain a drug-free workplace, and conduct pre-employment substance testing and background checks where permitted by law. We are an E-Verify Employer. By applying, candidates agree that we may share application materials with our subsidiaries and affiliates for consideration for other positions.

last updated 42 week of 2026