Senior DoD Maintenance Specialist Team Lead - Clearance Required

Overview

LMI is seeking a skilled Sr. DoD Maintenance Specialist Team Lead in providing senior leadership support to a DoD organization. This position will provide advanced analytical and policy advocacy and assessments in the area of DoD organic industrial base strategy, materiel readiness, and maintenance management. The work will be performed in the Pentagon (Arlington, VA). This position requires an active SECRET clearance.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

As a Sr. DoD Maintenance Specialist, you will serve the government client by: 

• Act as on-site team lead supporting PM in managing day to day tasks for LMI MR personnel to include managing schedules, workload, processes, and personnel issues in consultation with the PM.
• Providing organic industrial base, materiel readiness, maintenance, or sustainment technology subject matter expertise in support of the client, ensuring work products address weapon system acquisition and sustainment requirements. Conceptualize and offer approaches and techniques that strengthen the organic industrial base from resourcing, infrastructure, and policy perspectives.
• Apply advanced analytical skills and maintenance policy expertise to quantify trends, anomalies or performance gaps in DoD organic industrial base performance and materiel readiness outcomes. Effectively identify and scope descriptive and prescriptive performance data, conduct trend and root cause analysis, and synthesize relevant findings and recommendations to the client.
• Analyze and assess potential effects and impacts of existing and proposed legislation on DoD policy as it relates to organic industrial base performance, industrial base capabilities, and weapon system availability.
• Employ specialized knowledge and experience to assessments designed to increase the government’s ability to enhance the viability and resilience of its depot maintenance activities. Applicable statute and policy expertise is required in order to address topics such as maintenance levels of repair, core capability determination, testability requirements, support equipment needs, site activation, development of preventive maintenance programs using reliability centered maintenance, sustainment and product support planning, and postproduction software support.
• Conduct detailed research and prepare point papers/speeches/remarks for use by senior DoD officials to internal and external organizations related to the organic industrial base and its importance to the overall defense industrial base. Produce charts and other presentation materials. Prepare and finalize correspondence including letters, memoranda, briefings, speeches, presentations, meeting minutes, and reports.
• Clearly communicate analytical and/or policy-related outcomes in advocacy, briefings, papers, and/or associated products to a variety of senior level DoD stakeholders and audiences.
• Provide information-based counsel and advocacy to senior DoD sustainment and materiel readiness leaders. Focused effort will be required to shape and elaborate on organic industrial base strategic goals and initiatives, as well as how to measure progress on those efforts.
• Collaborate with analysts, specialists, and industrial base experts throughout DoD organizations and industry to provide data-driven observations, feedback, and recommendations that strengthen the client’s capability to understand, monitor, and shape the organic industrial base and its ability to deliver on materiel readiness outcomes.
• Have familiarity with Depot Source of Repair (DSOR) recommendations, CORE report, Bearing report, and DoD Instructions 3110.05 and 4151.18
• Coordinate monthly Joint Technology Exchange Group (JTEG) meetings and reports.
• Collaborate with subject-matter experts on researching, writing, and editing strategy and policy papers
• Support client in the planning and logistics of annual defense symposium

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in management, operations research, mathematics, d