Overview In this role you plan and execute the multimodal movement of autonomous platforms and mission-critical cargo, ensuring compliant, timely transportation across domestic and international missions. You work closely with military and civilian transportation networks to optimize routes, schedules, and documentation. You will manage hazardous materials movement, export compliance, and in-transit visibility, shaping reliable deployment and operational support. This role offers meaningful impact by enabling rapid, compliant mobility for government programs in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities- Plan and coordinate multimodal movement of autonomous platforms, payloads, batteries, support equipment and cargo by air, sea, rail, and ground
- Develop transportation plans, schedules, routing options, load plans, packaging requirements, documentation, and delivery milestones
- Coordinate with US Transportation Command, military services, combatant commands, installation transportation offices, carriers, vendors, customs, and receiving units
- Move hazardous materials, lithium batteries, energetic systems, and other regulated cargo in compliance with DoD, federal, international, carrier, and host-nation requirements
- Support export authorization and compliance activities related to ITAR and EAR
- Track shipments from origin through delivery, maintain in-transit visibility, resolve exceptions, and provide timely status
- Coordinate staging, secure storage, handling, loading/unloading, and handoff at operational, test, training, and industry locations
- Develop contingency movement options for denied, disrupted, or compressed operational timelines
- Maintain transportation records, shipping documentation, customs information, hazardous material certifications, and audit-ready files
- Assess transportation capacity, lead times, cost drivers, regulatory constraints, and risk to mission schedules
- Support exercises, demonstrations, deployments, and recovery operations
- Prepare movement briefs, transportation estimates, risk assessments, and recommended courses of action for leadership
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience in transportation, logistics, or related field
- Four+ years in military transportation, deployment and distribution, freight operations, strategic mobility, hazardous material movement, or related field
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Working knowledge of DoD transportation processes, multimodal shipment planning, in-transit visibility, customs, and cargo documentation
- Experience coordinating movement of sensitive, high-value, hazardous, or mission-critical equipment
- Knowledge of hazardous material packaging, labeling, handling, documentation, and carrier requirements; ability to obtain required certifications
- Knowledge of ITAR, EAR, or other export/import compliance requirements
- Experience coordinating across government transportation organizations, operational units, vendors, carriers, and receiving activities
- Strong planning, problem-solving, written communication, briefing, and records-management skills
- Ability to travel and support transportation activities at ports, airfields, installations, ranges, warehouses, and industry locations
- Strong planning and problem-solving abilities
- Clear, concise written communication
- Effective briefing and stakeholder management
- DoD transportation processes
- Multimodal shipment planning
- In-transit visibility
