Description
Description
SAIC is seeking an experienced IBCS Regional Lead to direct operational execution and mission support across a geographically dispersed group of Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) sites. The Regional Lead serves as the primary operational leadership point for the assigned region, translating program priorities into coordinated site-level action while maintaining readiness, customer confidence, and continuity of support.
This full-time position is fully on-site at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The Regional Lead reports to the Operations Manager, supervises multiple site leads, and requires up to 50% travel to CONUS and OCONUS customer locations.
The successful candidate will lead distributed field-support personnel, synchronize competing requirements, and integrate field operations with technical, logistics, training, property, security, travel, and program-management functions. This position requires a leader who can make sound day-to-day decisions within delegated authority, communicate difficult information clearly, and promptly elevate contractual, funding, scope, safety, security, or other material risks to the appropriate authority.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIESDirect day-to-day operational execution across multiple IBCS sites within the assigned region.
Supervise multiple site leads and provide performance management, leave management, staffing, employee development, expectations, and accountability.
Translate program priorities into regional operating plans, site tasking, staffing coverage, schedules, and measurable outcomes.
Maintain visibility of personnel, system, equipment, training, fielding, maintenance, and customer-support readiness across the region.
Lead, coach, and develop geographically dispersed site leads and field-support personnel while sustaining accountability despite limited face-to-face contact.
Serve as a trusted customer-facing representative to supported Army organizations, site leadership, senior stakeholders, and the IBCS program office.
Deliver timely and candid status, including limitations, schedule impacts, recovery plans, and decisions required from leadership or the customer.
Prioritize competing fielding, test, training, maintenance, travel, and surge-support requirements; allocate or recommend resources within delegated authority and communicate tradeoffs to affected stakeholders.
Integrate regional activity with systems integration, field service, logistics, training, property, security, deployment, travel, program control, and other program functions.
Identify operational and program risks early, assign and track mitigation actions, and escalate matters involving scope, funding, contractual direction, safety, security, or customer commitments.
Establish and maintain an accurate reporting rhythm for readiness, staffing, schedule, risks, actions, and customer concerns.
Maintain operational continuity during deployments, leave, staffing gaps, urgent customer requirements, and changes in mission tempo.
Support process improvement, lessons learned, cross-training, succession coverage, and standardization across regional sites while accounting for legitimate site-specific requirements.
- Travel to supported sites and customer locations as mission needs require
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in any field and nine (9) or more years of related experience, or a master's degree in any field and 8 or more years of related experience; Six (6) additional years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
Clearance Requirements:
Active Secret security clearance required by the start date and must be maintained throughout employment.
U.S. citizenship required.
Required Qualifications:
Five or more years of experience leading geographically dispersed technical or operational personnel, multiple locations, or comparable complex operations.
Demonstrated U.S. Army experience through military service, Army civilian employment, or contractor support to Army programs or units.
Demonstrated experience planning and coordinating personnel, schedules, priorities, and resources in a complex, high-operational-tempo environment.
Demonstrated ability to represent an organization directly to Army customers and senior leaders, including communicating limitations, schedule impacts, risks, and recovery options.
Demonstrated judgment in resolving competing operational priorities, identifying risk, and escalating matters outside delegated authority.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical or operational complexity into information leaders can use to make decisions.
Ability to travel up to 50%, including travel to CONUS and OCONUS locations.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. passport and meet applicable medical, security-training, country-clearance, theater-entry, and deployment requirements for supported locations.
Preferred Qualifications
Direct experience with IBCS.
Experience supporting operations in the Pacific region, at OCONUS locations, or with allied-partner or Foreign Military Sales missions.
Experience with Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Army air defense, mission command, command-and-control systems, field service, sustainment, systems integration, testing, training, or logistics.
Experience as a regional manager, operations manager, field-operations lead, site lead, senior field service engineer, sustainment lead, or military operations leader.
Formal civilian supervisory experience or comparable military leadership experience.
Experience developing site leads, building cross-site coverage, and improving employee retention or team resilience.
Familiarity with field-support readiness, technical issue escalation, configuration discipline, property accountability, travel and deployment requirements, and customer reporting.
Work Environment:
Work is performed fully on-site at Redstone Arsenal and, when traveling, at office, laboratory, military-installation, and field locations based on mission requirements.
Ability to travel by commercial or military transportation and work at CONUS and OCONUS customer locations.
Ability to comply with applicable site-access, safety, security, medical, and theater-entry requirements.
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