About this role
Job Description
Title: Logistics Management Specialist
Pay Plan-Series-Grade: NH-0346-02
Duty Location: Peterson SFB, CO, Future Guardian Campus TBD
Organization: Delta 1
PCS Funding/Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Eligible for relocation assistance / PCS funding in accordance with joint travel regulations (TBD based on final budget authority).
Telework: YA002: Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”
Mission
Transform Guardians into joint minded space professionals possessing the values, skills, confidence, and character required to protect, defend, and deliver Space Power.
Purpose of position: To serve as the lead logistics planner, coordinator, and operations specialist for the Civilian Guardian Course (CGC). The incumbent manages the lifecycle logistics, material support, supply coordination, travel operations, and tactical execution of learning cohorts. This includes coordinating student arrivals, managing facility setups, provisioning simulation materials (such as tabletop or escape room exercises), and serving as the primary liaison between STARCOM, visiting civilian cohorts, and operational space units to ensure seamless educational delivery.
Duties
Employee plans and carries out assignments independently; conceives and defines solutions to highly complex problems; analyzes, interprets, and reports findings of projects; and guides technical and programmatic work of team members in comparable junior grades.
Completed work and reports are reviewed for feasibility, compatibility with other work or effectiveness in meeting requirements or expected results. Provides guidance, direction, and technical assistance to appropriate personnel to ensure compliance with Supply DoD,
AF, AFMC, and AFGLSC regulations, instructions, directives and policy. Executes difficult, but well documented DoD logistical procedures along with service supplements to those procedures. Serves as logistical coordinator for various submitting/receiving agencies to provide transactions, purchases, oversight for situations requiring special provisions. Provides assistance for the development of formal and informal training programs to instruct Center personnel in all facets of the supply specialist process as required. Provides continuous guidance for Squadron personnel in current operations and new materials management concepts and methods.
Make recommendations for the development of new or revised procedures involving workflows and actual work to be accomplished to organizations involved. Represent the organization in conferences, meetings, and workgroups as the functional supply specialist and on new and revised policies and compatibility of related systems. Provides sound facts based on process and system recommendations. Maintains contact with other logistical management specialists from other dwellings with similar functional activities in order to meet mission requirements. Responsible for training, assisting, troubleshooting, and resolution of supply related issues. Provides guidance and required support and maintains a working knowledge of materials management, financial and supply policies and processes.
Applies established process procedures and plans for supporting material requirements and service requests from other government and outside agencies. Applies knowledge of spares procurement, in the areas of inventory management, inventory control, and supply management. Coordinates spares procurement requirements for local, DoD interagency, and other outside government agencies. Performs the functions required by a supply process to ascertain changes in current activities and operating procedures and ensures adequate supply support for specific systems/processes or projects is provided.
Identifies and resolves procedural and system problems, discrepancies, and deficiencies in conventional materials management and supply processes. Requires the ability to effectively apply analytical principles and techniques combined with knowledge of operating programs and their interrelationships. Provides recommendations and assists management with the development, standardization, and implementation of procedures, plans, methods and practices for a combination of operational and data management systems and supply processes.
Ascertains changes in current activities and operations to ensure continuous customer support is maintained. Works to achieve and support quality improvement in all products and services. Analyzes the relationships of logistics programs, developing and evaluating long- and shortrange support plans and policies, and coordinating overall logistics planning with the specialized logistics functions.
Presents ideas to management and obtain concurrences or recommendation for development of new or revised programmatic procedures involving workflows, actual work to be accomplished, and organizations involved. Provides technical assistance to lower graded personnel and ensures their work is performed in accordance with programmatic procedures. Routinely prepare messages to satisfactorily answer and resolve programmatic issues, problems, and inquiries.
Responsible for planning, logistic analysis, and coordination for a portion of a major system's acquisition and transfer into operational use or their work may involve. The work is carried out through constant and extensive contacts with technical specialists (e.g., engineers, supply and maintenance specialists, technical data experts, project managers, mission planners, training specialists) and with contract personnel. Involves close contact and coordination with counterparts in industry. Applies knowledge of spares procurement, in the areas of logistics support, inventory control, supply management and accounting and data processing.
Employee at this level is an expert within their functional area. Employee plans and carries out assignments independently in support of their academic department. They conceive and define solutions to highly complex problems; analyzes, interprets, and reports findings of projects; and guides technical and programmatic work of team members in comparable junior grades.
All eligible applicants should send resumes directly to: [email protected]
Subject line of email application must include: Logistics Management Specialist, NH-0346-02, Peterson, CO ***
Required Experience
Requirements for the position
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret (or Top Secret/SCI if operationally required) security clearance.
Strong written and oral presentation skills, with the ability to build relationships at high levels within Space Force leadership.
High adaptability and problem-solving skills to manage logistics in a “startup” style schoolhouse undergoing growth and eventual relocation.
Periodic CONUS travel required in support of cohort deliveries and future campus transitions.
Willingness to travel periodically to support cohort engagements, curriculum reviews, or future campus planning.
May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
Preferred Experience
Knowledge and skills for the position
Lifecycle Logistics & Operations: Planning, developing, and executing lifecycle logistics or product support plans within a defense, joint, or high-tempo training environment.
Cohort or Event Coordination: Managing end-to-end operational planning for large groups, including scheduling, lodging, security clearance checks, and travel arrangements.
Training Support & Material Management: Sourcing, inventorying, and organizing course supplies, physical simulation materials, and tech/facility infrastructure.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Leading or participating in integrated teams of military instructors, curriculum architects, facility managers, and senior government stakeholders.
Resource Optimization & Budgeting: Tracking supply chain expenditures, coordinating with finance offices on funding, and identifying logistical risks or bottlenecks.
Course Cohort Logistical Execution: Plan and execute all operational requirements for upcoming CGC cohorts, serving as the central point of contact for visiting students from arrival to graduation.
Supply Chain & Inventory Control: Procure, maintain, and distribute physical and digital training aids, classroom technology, and active learning simulation assets.
Liaison & Interagency Coordination: Coordinate facility requirements, base access, security badging, and travel coordination across various Space Force bases and training sites.
Operational Scheduling: Build and manage the master operational schedule for the course, aligning instructor availability, room reservations, and technology testing.
Process Improvement & Risk Mitigation: Evaluate logistical operations after each cohort delivery to identify areas for increased efficiency, cost savings, and process improvement.