B1 Bomber Readiness and Sustainment SME

Job Title: B1 Bomber Readiness and Sustainment SME
Job Location: Tinker AFB, OK
Compensation: $140,000 - $180,000
Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a senior B-1 Readiness and Sustainment Subject
Matter Expert to support the Air Force B-1 System Program Office at
Tinker Air Force Base. The initial 16-week effort will improve how the
SPO manages fleet readiness by establishing a current-state baseline,
assessing the data and integration landscape, prioritizing and designing
a minimum viable product, and developing an implementation roadmap. You
will bring the weapon-system and sustainment context that allows the
team to distinguish how readiness decisions are actually made from how a
process appears on paper. You will work with System Program Office (SPO)
leaders, logisticians, engineers, program managers, depot and production
personnel, supply-chain stakeholders, and an integrated consulting and
digital team. Ideal candidates understand the B-1 sustainment ecosystem
and can turn incomplete data, cross-organizational dependencies, and
ambiguous operational problems into practical decisions, clear
requirements, and executable plans.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the team's senior B-1 readiness and sustainment advisor,
providing practical context on fleet management, maintenance,
engineering, logistics, supply, depot production, and field operations.
Lead interviews and working sessions that document current readiness
processes, decision rights, information flows, constraints, and pain
points across the sustainment ecosystem.
Help define the future-state readiness management approach, including
decision forums, roles, key performance indicators, business rules,
escalation paths, and recurring management routines.
Translate operational needs into functional use cases, analytic
requirements, data definitions, and acceptance criteria for a
prioritized minimum viable product.
Guide the assessment of readiness data sources, mappings, normalization
needs, data quality, system interfaces, and integration constraints in
partnership with data engineers and architects.
Conduct or advise root-cause analyses of readiness drivers, including
maintenance, supply, MICAP, production, engineering, and reliability
issues, using FMEA or comparable methods when appropriate.
Develop decision-ready briefings, process maps, requirements, risk and
action trackers, and an implementation roadmap that can be incorporated
into the SPO's routine operations.
Engage B-1 stakeholders, including depot, wing and squadron,
supply-chain, DLA, and other enterprise partners, to validate findings
and remove barriers.
Required:
Bachelor's degree and eight or more years of relevant Department of
Defense experience in aviation readiness, weapon-system sustainment,
logistics, maintenance, supply chain, engineering, product support, or
program management.
Direct experience supporting the B-1, another Air Force bomber, or a
comparably complex Air Force weapon system in a program office, depot,
operational unit, supply-chain organization, or sustainment command.
Working knowledge of the relationships among program management, product
support, depot maintenance, field maintenance, engineering, supply
support, and operational readiness.
Experience assessing current processes and converting findings into a
future-state operating approach, prioritized improvements, and specific
implementation actions.
Ability to define and interpret readiness measures, identify underlying
drivers, and connect metrics to authoritative data sources and
management decisions.
Strong facilitation and executive communication skills, including the
ability to lead discussions with senior leaders and technical
specialists and produce clear written decision products.
Ability to work on site at Tinker Air Force Base and meet customer
security, installation access, and suitability requirements.
Preferred:
Current or prior B-1 experience within the System Program Office, Air
Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Sustainment Center,
Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Air Force Global Strike Command,
the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, DLA, or a B-1 operational or
maintenance unit.
Experience as a Product Support Manager, logistician, maintenance or
production leader, systems engineer, equipment specialist, program
manager, or readiness analyst.
Experience with readiness dashboards, digital-product or
minimum-viable-product development, data integration, data governance,
or the improvement of weapon-system management information.
Experience performing MICAP, FMEA, reliability, availability,
supply-chain, or other structured root-cause analysis for aviation
readiness.
Active Department of Defense Secret clearance or higher.
Education:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal
employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,
national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic
information, or mental or physical disability