Logistics Specialist

Logistics Specialist 

Company Overview

Covan Group is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in the National Capital Region. Our team consists of high-performing, experienced, and adaptive veterans and civilians who bring a multi-tiered perspective and deep expertise to our clients. Covan Group combines military and civilian experience across key areas, including MAGTF Planning, MEU and Special Operations, Military Instruction, Fires, Networking, Data Analytics, and Multimedia Production. Our capabilities are rooted in experience at all levels, from squad leaders to division leaders. With a strong foundation of recently separated service members—many still serving in the reserve component—Covan Group provides clients with firsthand military insight into research, development, and operational innovation.

Key Outcomes (First 90–180 Days)

• Understands Logistics Section equipment accountability, readiness, movement, and lifecycle processes supporting Experiment Division activities.
• Develops working knowledge of existing inventory records, deployment packages, shipment, maintenance, and recovery procedures.
• Demonstrates reliable asset accountability and logistics readiness across deployment, execution, recovery, and reconciliation activities.
• Identifies shortages, discrepancies, lifecycle risks, and logistics constraints early and provides practical recommendations to leadership.

Core Responsibilities

Operational SME Track

• Participate in scenario development, structured test design, and event reporting.
• Provide operational insights into emerging technologies, integration, and employment.
• Lead portions of field execution and ensure accurate data capture.

Project Responsibilities

The Logistics Specialist coordinates equipment accountability, readiness, storage, movement, and lifecycle tracking within the Logistics Section. The role synchronizes deployment and recovery requirements with project and functional teams. It produces complete equipment records, prepared deployment packages, and reliable logistics support for experiments and operational events.

• Coordinate equipment requirements and logistics timelines across supported efforts.
• Maintain accountability for serialized and nonserialized assets from receipt through reconciliation.
• Maintain and reconcile Sortly, Excel, manifests, and authorized asset records.
• Plan and verify deployment kits, packing lists, staging, issue, and recovery records.
• Coordinate approved domestic and international shipments with authorized support.
• Conduct inventories, asset audits, condition checks, and resolve discrepancies.
• Track maintenance, calibration, repair, replacement, and lifecycle status.
• Coordinate loading, movement, deployment, and retrograde with operational teams.
• Report shortages, damaged or missing equipment, readiness risks, and priorities.
• Improve inventory controls, warehouse organization, procedures, and deployment readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Military experience at the NCO level (E4-E6), OR equivalent foundational operational or field-support experience in a federal or state organization.
• Foundational operational or technical experience consistent with Tactical Analyst I, including accurate observation, writing, and recordkeeping.
• Ability to follow collection instructions, distinguish facts from inference, and work reliably in field settings.
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and reliability while working under supervision and established collection, safety, and reporting procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DoD test events, experimentation, or operational analysis.
• Familiarity with field-event equipment integration and operational support requirements.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience; Sortly or comparable inventory platform; field-event logistics; international shipping or regulated-material training.

Specialized Tools / Systems / Capabilities

• Sortly; Excel; asset registers; serialized inventories; manifests; packing lists.
• Approved shipment, maintenance, and lifecycle trackers.

Clearance Requirements

• Secret eligibility required; Secret preferred. Higher access only as required by the assigned contract or program.
• Must comply with all applicable security procedures and reporting requirements.

Work Environment & Travel

• Fredericksburg, VA area; approximately 50–80% annual travel, including recurring CONUS/OCONUS travel and frequent local driving.
• Regulated shipments require appropriate training and authorization. May require moving equipment up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation. Event execution may require extended/shift hours, evenings, weekends, and schedule changes; routine overnight field living is not expected.
• Travel governed by Covan Group's Travel Policy.

Compensation

2026 Pay Band: $66,500 – $98,000

EEOC & Accommodation Statement

Covan Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.