Senior Aviation Logistics Specialist - San Diego CA

Senior Aviation Logistics Specialist (San Diego)

The Senior Aviation Logistics Specialist supports the planning, coordination, and execution of military aviation training and expeditionary operations. This role integrates aviation logistics, airspace coordination, infrastructure planning, safety, and stakeholder engagement in support of Marine Expeditionary Units, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Forces, and related aviation organizations. The position works across military commands, federal agencies, civilian airport authorities, and private-sector partners to coordinate training events, resolve operational constraints, and ensure readiness.

Security Clearance Requirements: Active DoD Secret clearance

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain exercise plans, schedules, coordination products, site surveys, briefing materials, and after-action documentation.
• Support aviation operations planning across MAGTF, expeditionary, amphibious, maritime, and distributed environments.
• Assist units with operational concepts, mission profiles, airfield requirements, training objectives, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with FAA, DoD, installation, and local authorities on airspace requirements, including SUA, ALTRVs, NOTAMs, TFRs, and parachute operations.
• Maintain awareness of the National Airspace System, military training routes, air traffic procedures, and civil-military coordination requirements.
• Coordinate aviation risk management and identify airspace, weather, safety, environmental, security, and operational risks.
• Support deconfliction of military aviation activities with civilian air traffic and commercial airport operations.
• Develop and coordinate logistics support for mobilization, staging, sustainment, redeployment, and retrograde operations.
• Plan and track requirements for fuel, ground support equipment, ramp space, hangars, maintenance, transportation, communications, security, lodging, and other resources.
• Coordinate airfield, ramp, and infrastructure support with installation personnel, airport authorities, vendors, and exercise participants.
• Track facilities, property, equipment, cost estimates, funding inputs, and accountability actions.
• Identify permitting, access, environmental, security, and facility constraints and escalate issues requiring formal authority.
• Participate in planning conferences, execution meetings, synchronization sessions, and post-exercise reviews.
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with military commands, installation staff, FAA representatives, air traffic organizations, civilian airport authorities, state and local government offices, and private-sector providers.
• Coordinate working groups, planning conferences, site visits, stakeholder engagements, and executive-level briefings.
• Translate operational requirements into clear taskings, schedules, resource needs, and decision points.
• Track stakeholder commitments, approvals, open actions, and interdependencies.
• Resolve routine coordination issues and elevate matters requiring policy, command, regulatory, or contractual decisions.
• Represent the organization professionally in meetings involving military, federal, state, local, and commercial stakeholders.