Life Cycle Engineering, Inc

Senior Aviation Logistics Specialist

Life Cycle Engineering, Inc • $100K — $120K *
San Diego, CA 92154In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's degree in aviation management, logistics, military studies, or related field.
  • 10+ years in military aviation operations or related field.
  • Active DoD Secret Clearance required.
  • Experience with Marine Expeditionary Units or related training environments.
  • Knowledge of military operational planning and airspace coordination.
  • Proven capability in producing clear documentation and executive communications.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain exercise plans, schedules, and briefing materials.
  • Support aviation operations planning across varied military environments.
  • Assist units with operational concepts and training objectives.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders on airspace requirements and operations.
  • Maintain awareness of and coordinate airspace and operational risks.
  • Plan and track logistical requirements for military operations.
  • Identify and escalate constraints in permitting and facility access.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with military and federal stakeholders.
  • Engagement in multifaceted aviation logistics operations.
  • Collaboration with diverse civilian and private sector partners.
  • Hands-on role in supporting critical military training and operational readiness.
Full Job Description
Senior Aviation Logistics Specialist

Position Summary
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 required

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.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience:
  • Master's degree in aviation management, logistics, Military studies, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in military aviation operations, or a related field.
  • Active Secret Clearance
  • Experience supporting Marine Expeditionary Units, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Forces, amphibious operations, distributed operations, or related training environments.
  • Knowledge of the Marine Corps Planning Process, Joint Planning Process, operational planning, exercise design, and training-readiness management.
  • Working knowledge of and experience coordinating with F irspace structures, Special Use Airspace, altitude reservations, Notices to Air Missions, temporary flight restrictions, parachute operations, and civil-military airspace coordination.
  • Demonstrated ability to produce clear written products, briefing materials, schedules, reports, and executive-level communications.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
  • Ability to travel frequently to military installations, commercial airports, training areas, and other operational locations.
  • Ability to work extended, weekend, or irregular hours during exercise planning and execution periods, when required.

Preferred Education, Skills and/or Experience:
  • Experience supporting Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations, stand-in-force concepts, maritime operations, tactical air control, unmanned aircraft systems, or distributed aviation operations.
  • Experience supporting live-fire training, ammunition coordination, range operations, flight simulation, or aviation training systems.
  • Experience with aviation maintenance logistics, aviation supply, parts accountability, repair-station operations, or aircraft sustainment.
  • Experience with cost estimating, budget tracking, resource allocation, schedule management, or performance reporting.
  • Current TS/SCI
  • Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School, or equivalent career-level PME from another military service.
  • Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Intermediate Level Education, or comparable intermediate-level military education
  • JPME I/II
  • Certified Aviation Manager (CAM), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), FAA Remote Pilot Certificate (Part 107)

Physical Demands and Expectations:
  • Regular physical activity to include walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, reaching, lifting (up to 30 pounds), and standing; occasional prolonged sitting
  • Ability to speak, read, hear, and write with or without assistance
  • Ability to use phone and computer systems, copier, fax, and other office equipment

This position description represents a summary of the major components and requirements of the outlined job. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned or required as business needs dictate. Questions regarding this description should immediately be addressed to the department manager or to Human Resources.

About Life Cycle Engineering, Inc

Life Cycle Engineering, Inc. (LCE) is a privately held engineering, consulting, and technical services firm headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1976, LCE provides engineering, programmatic, and technical support services to the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, United States Army, United States Air Force, and other federal agencies, as well as commercial clients. LCE specializes in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, information technology, program management, and business process engineering. The company has additional offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, California, Norfolk, Virginia, and Mayport, Florida.
Learn more about Life Cycle Engineering, Inc
Size
1,200 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$5 million
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+10%
Revenue
$100 million
* Ladders Estimates

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