Senior Training Support Specialist

Description

Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we deliver innovative solutions and services through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you an experienced training support professional, scheduler, logistics coordinator, or administrative manager who thrives in a high-tempo customer environment? Your search ends here! We're seeking a Training Support Manager to provide dependable, full-time support to senior managers, instructors, students, and training teams in Northern Virginia.

This role requires someone who can consistently support a Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule. The successful candidate must be able to work weekly at two customer locations in Northern Virginia, with local travel required. The Training Support Manager will bring order, follow-through, and calm coordination to a busy training environment where schedules, facilities, customer requirements, and senior leader priorities must be aligned every day.

As a successful candidate, you will be skilled at managing complex schedules, coordinating logistics, tracking competing requirements, and communicating clearly with team members, senior managers, instructors, students, and customers. You will need advanced interpersonal communication skills, including the diplomacy, tact, sound judgment, and professional presence required to support senior managers and customer stakeholders in a dynamic mission-focused environment.

You will also help manage and support a training facility with multiple classrooms. This includes preparing classrooms for use, supporting instructors and students during training events, helping coordinate resources and materials, and assisting with facility setup, reset, and cleanup so each training session is ready for successful delivery. Your ability to anticipate needs, deconflict priorities, and follow through on details will directly support the customer mission and the team's ability to deliver effective training.

You will be part of a larger program and will assist the team with customer communications, training coordination, team scheduling, logistics support, and administrative execution. You'll work closely with senior managers, instructors, project teams, and customer representatives to make sure requirements are understood, resources are coordinated, and activities are completed on time. If you're ready to bring your scheduling, logistics, administrative, and communication strengths to a mission that matters, we want to hear from you! Apply today and take the first step toward a fulfilling and rewarding career with Leidos.

Your greatest work is ahead!

The Mission

The Leidos Intelligence Sector uses a wide range of capabilities and enabling technologies, combined with our experienced and dedicated service solutions, to support our customers' missions to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team's focus is ensuring our intelligence customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

Are you ready to join a team dedicated to a mission? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career; share your resume with us today!

Your Main Mission:

• Provide full-time training support Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in support of customer training and senior management requirements.
• Work weekly at two Northern Virginia customer locations, with local travel required.
• Support senior managers by managing complex schedules, coordinating meetings, deconflicting priorities, and maintaining situational awareness of key activities and commitments.
• Coordinate logistics for training events, classroom activities, meetings, visitors, instructors, students, and customer engagements.
• Manage and support a multi-classroom training facility, including classroom setup, reset, cleanup, materials preparation, and day-of training support.
• Coordinate resources against dynamic requirements to accommodate multiple training, facility, and senior management needs.
• Communicate with diplomacy and professionalism when working with team members, instructors, senior managers, and customer stakeholders to identify requirements and develop action plans.
• Track, communicate, and manage administrative and logistics tasks to ensure deadlines, milestones, and customer expectations are met.
• Collaborate across the program to facilitate training schedules, project schedules, and support requirements.
• Identify process improvements that increase efficiency, clarity, responsiveness, and quality of training support operations.
• Adhere to customer security policies and procedures regarding the use of systems, equipment, facilities, and infrastructure.

What Sets You Apart (required):

• Possess a current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• Ability to consistently support a full-time Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule.
• Ability to work at two customer locations in Northern Virginia weekly, with local travel required.
• A bachelor's degree and at least 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior managers, customers, and/or executive-level stakeholders in a professional environment.
• Exceptional scheduling, calendar management, organizational, logistics, and administrative skills.
• Advanced verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including diplomacy, tact, sound judgment, and discretion.
• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Critical thinking skills with a proactive and creative approach to problem solving.
• Experience coordinating resources, tracking tasks, managing requirements, and communicating status across multi-functional teams.
• Experience with customer systems, logistics systems, scheduling tools, project tracking systems, or the demonstrated ability to quickly learn new systems.

You Might Also Have (desired):

• Experience managing or supporting training facilities, classrooms, training events, or customer learning environments.
• Experience using and/or creating JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, dashboards, or other project tracking mechanisms to manage schedules, tasks, or metrics.
• Experience working with reporting metrics and process improvement initiatives.
• Experience as an executive assistant, executive officer, office manager, training coordinator, logistics coordinator, or equivalent role.
• Direct experience supporting technical customer environments and familiarity with their training and project support needs.

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We're excited to learn more about you; apply today!

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit .

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at .

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.