Life Cycle Logistician

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Sustainment Division, located in Washington, DC.

This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first.

Qualifications:

Specialized Experience: You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as:

• Applied a variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods to assess logistics support strategies, evaluate program performance metrics, and recommend improvements to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of acquisition and sustainment activities across organizational components.
• Utilized Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) principles to plan and coordinate logistics activities, including the acquisition of repair parts, maintenance resources, and supply chain elements, ensuring effective supportability and operational readiness for assigned programs.
• Assisted in developing and updating life cycle sustainment plans, ensuring logistics support requirements and resource allocations were aligned with program objectives throughout all phases of system operation.
• Supported the development and implementation of Life Cycle Logistics plans by identifying logistics requirements, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring integration of support strategies across all phases of system acquisition and sustainment.

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Please see the "Required Documents" section below for additional resume requirements.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

You must:

• Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process; and
• Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 04/28/2026.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Background Investigation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a federal law enforcement agency that requires all applicants to undergo a thorough background investigation prior to employment in order to promote the agency's core values of vigilance, service to country, and integrity. During the screening and/or background investigation process, you will be asked questions regarding any felony criminal convictions or current felony charges, the use of illegal drugs (e.g., marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, methamphetamines, ecstasy), and the use of non-prescribed controlled substances including any experimentation, possession, sale, receipt, manufacture, cultivation, production, transfer, shipping, trafficking, or distribution of controlled substances. For additional information on the preemployment process, review the following link: Applicant Resources | CBP Careers

Residency: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP. Individuals are required to have physically resided in the United States or its protectorates (as declared under international law) for at least three of the last five years. If you do not meet the residency requirement and you have been physically located in a foreign location for more than two of the last five years, you may request an exception to determine if you are eligible for a residency waiver by meeting one or more of the following conditions:

• Working for the U.S. Government as a federal civilian or as a member of the military
• A dependent who was authorized to accompany a federal civilian or member of the military who was working for the U.S. government
• Participation in a study abroad program sponsored by a U.S. affiliated college or university
• Working as a contractor, intern, consultant or volunteer supporting the U.S. government

Probationary Period: All employees new to the federal government must serve a one year probationary period during the first year of his/her initial permanent federal appointment to determine fitness for continued employment. Current and former federal employees may be required to serve or complete a probationary period.

Responsibilities:

Joining Customs & Border Protection (CBP) will allow you to utilize your expertise to provide guidance, coordination, management, and planning for acquiring or procuring logistics and sustainment support for operational users across the CBP enterprise. This position starts at a salary of $143,913.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $187,093.00 (GS-14, Step 10). Apply for this exciting opportunity to strengthen the Department's ability to perform homeland security functions by serving as a logistics management specialist supporting Enterprise Logistics Life Cycle Management (ELLCM) and Cost Wise Readiness (CWR) initiatives.

In this Life Cycle Logistician position you will become a key team member of Homeland Security professionals involved in coordinating and integrating sustainment planning, sustainment engineering, modification program management, program control, analytical studies, logistic and maintenance efforts; performing varied duties that require resolving difficult and complex problems in logistics programs; project studies and/ or other assignments requiring analyses of interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of substantive logistics programs; developing detailed plans, goals, and objectives; evaluation of long-range implementation of logistics programs and activities; critical decisions about how to proceed in planning, organizing, and conducting product support; and performing in-depth analyses, extensive coordination, and intensive negotiations with different high-level officials.

Typical Work assignments include:

• Plan and manage cost and performance across the product support value chain, from design through disposal.
• Identify, plan for, resource, and implement management actions to acquire repair parts, spares, and all classes of supply to ensure the best equipment/capability is available to support CBP requirements.
• Identify, plan, resource, and acquire packaging/preservation, handling, storage and transportation (PHS&T) requirements to maximize availability and usability of the materiel to include support items whenever they are needed for training or mission.
• Identify, plan, resource, and implement maintenance concepts and requirements to ensure the best possible equipment/capability is available to meet CBP requirements at the lowest possible Total Ownership Cost (TOC).
• Participate in and leverage the systems engineering process to impact the design from its inception throughout the life cycle, facilitating supportability to maximize the availability, effectiveness and capability systems at the lowest Total Ownership Cost (TOC).
  

Salary : $143,913