Logistics and Sustainment Division Lead Customs and Border Protection Office of Acquisitions

Responsibilities

Noblis pursues new opportunities and contracts in order to ensure that teammates have opportunities for growth and development, and to identify places where we can bring Noblis’ strengths to the Federal Government services. To this end, we are pursuing new opportunities in the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Acquisition (OA).  We are seeking to identify personnel to join our team of talented professionals who possess the experience, vision, commitment, and integrity to successfully support the strategic goals of CBP OA and to aid Noblis in building and establishing a new team and presence at this organization.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is charged with managing, securing, and controlling the nation’s borders while facilitating lawful international travel and trade. The Office of Acquisition (OA) within CBP’s Enterprise Services (ES) supports CBP’s mission to efficiently and effectively manage the Nation’s borders by facilitating the acquisition of a mix of services, infrastructure and technology solutions.

This position may have two roles.  First, this role is to provide the supportive environment for teammates to ensure job satisfaction through professional development, mentoring, coaching, and promoting growth opportunities. Noblis’ recognition in the Washington Post as a top workplace reflects the dedication and commitment of our managers to promoting workplace development and professional growth for all teammates.   To this end, Noblis seeks proactive, engaged, committed, communicative, invested managers to strengthen and support the core of our team: our people.  Second, this role has direct client and project support responsibilities as the Logistics and Sustainment Lead.

The Logistics and Sustainment Division (L&S) is responsible for influencing and enhancing CBP’s mission readiness by providing effective enterprise-wide transformational logistics and sustainment capabilities. It accomplishes this responsibility through the management and oversight of logistics and sustainment requirements for all CBP acquisition programs. The division develops and implements life-cycle sustainment requirements for new technology programs; provides for the management and oversight of systems in the support phase of the system lifecycle and develops tools and business processes focused on enhancing system performance and reducing system life-cycle costs. The division also has overall responsibility for Cost Wise Readiness (CWR). L&S has four primary goals: 1) Provide program analyses for the Component Acquisition Executive (CAE), 2) Provide acquisition and sustainment logistics support to CBP programs, 3) Train and Mentor Life-Cycle Logisticians (LCLs), 4) Provide oversight of enterprise logistics and sustainment Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) as well as an Intergovernmental Reimbursable Work Agreement (IRWA) and related support for CBP. The directorate consists of the Policy, Assessment & Sustainment Branch, the Systems Support Services Branch and a Readiness Cost Branch Team. This position requires onsite work at the client site in Washington, DC and in Ashburn, VA, in accordance with the contract.

 Client Delivery Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Logistics and Sustainment Lead contractor providing strategic feedback and advice and contributing to the efficient execution of the division’s activities.
• Provide leadership and guidance to a small team of colleagues providing support to adjacent programs and projects within the same portfolio to include coaching, review of and feedback on deliverables, monitoring completion of assigned activities, and assisting in balancing workloads in consultation with CBP program managers and leadership.
• Providing required team leadership and guidance; consult with senior leadership in support of engineering day to day operations; and leverage other functional competencies to enable proper planning, accountability, and mission performance outcomes
• Providing leadership and support for activities including:
  • Collaboration with OA and its internal/external customers to facilitate L&S activity coordination throughout the CBP enterprise
  • Oversight of activities related to:
    • Lifecycle logistics policy development
    • Integrated lifecycle logistics and sustainment planning and implementation support for systems/technologies through concept, acquisition, deployment, and retirement
    • Enterprise strategic, operational, and tactical cost-wise readiness mission required performance-based outcomes
    • Independent Logistics Assessment support
    • Lifecycle Logistics Management workforce development support
    • Enterprise logistics and sustainment data-driven analytical rigor support across all product support elements for planned and deployed systems and tec