Daily Operations Manager - GEOINT Operations Support

Description

Leidos is seeking a dynamic, mission-focused Site Lead / PMO Liaison to support our GEOINT operations at a customer site in St. Louis, Missouri.

This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who thrives at the center of mission operations-building relationships, solving problems, supporting employees, and ensuring our teams have what they need to succeed.

As the primary on-site representative for Leidos, you will serve as a critical connection between our employees, customer leadership, and the Leidos Portfolio Management Office (PMO). You will maintain a strong presence across the site, engage directly with mission stakeholders, anticipate operational challenges, and drive solutions that keep the mission moving forward.

This role is about leadership in action. You'll spend your days connecting with people, strengthening customer partnerships, removing obstacles, and staying ahead of issues before they impact operations. From coordinating with senior customer leadership to resolving unexpected challenges on the ground, you'll be trusted to take initiative, make sound decisions, and deliver results.

While program coordination, reporting, and administrative responsibilities are important components of the position, the real impact comes from being present, building trust, and making things happen.

The ideal candidate brings energy, initiative, sound judgment, and a genuine commitment to both mission success and the people behind it. If you're a natural problem-solver who enjoys being where the action is, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference every day.

Primary Responsibilities

Site Leadership & Daily Operations

• Serve as Leidos' primary on-site representative and point of contact for daily operational matters at the St. Louis customer location.
• Maintain an active, visible presence across the site, engaging regularly with employees, customer representatives, and mission stakeholders.
• Proactively identify operational challenges, develop practical solutions, and take ownership of issues through resolution.
• Coordinate daily site activities to support mission continuity, operational readiness, and employee effectiveness.
• Respond quickly to emerging issues, exercising sound judgment and escalating matters to the PMO when appropriate.
• Support employee onboarding, site access coordination, and integration into customer operations.

Customer Engagement & Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong, productive relationships with customer leadership, mission partners, and site personnel.
• Serve as a trusted liaison between Leidos employees, customer representatives, and the PMO.
• Navigate complex customer environments with professionalism, diplomacy, and a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Anticipate customer concerns, clarify expectations, and work collaboratively to resolve issues before they affect mission performance.
• Represent Leidos during customer meetings, site visits, leadership engagements, and other operational activities.
• Coordinate and support visits from Leidos leadership, customer representatives, and newly arriving personnel.

PMO Coordination & Program Support

• Serve as the primary coordination link between St. Louis site operations and the Leidos PMO.
• Maintain accurate staffing information, including personnel assignments, vacancies, employee transitions, and onboarding status.
• Prepare, validate, and submit customer staffing sheets, operational updates, and required program deliverables.
• Track action items, reporting deadlines, and administrative requirements to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Coordinate with PMO stakeholders on staffing, personnel concerns, site requirements, and operational priorities.
• Keep program leadership informed of site activities, emerging challenges, customer concerns, and potential risks.
• Support program management activities while maintaining a primary focus on daily operational execution and customer engagement.

Security, Compliance & Site Coordination

• Coordinate with Leidos Security, customer security representatives, and program leadership to support personnel access and site security requirements.
• Assist with security-related administrative processes, onboarding requirements, and compliance tracking.
• Help ensure personnel understand and follow applicable customer site procedures, security protocols, and operational requirements.
• Coordinate visitor arrivals, leadership visits, facility access, and associated logistical requirements.
• Identify potential security or compliance concerns and communicate them through established reporting channels.

Employee Engagement & Mission Support

• Foster a positive, accountable, mission-focused environment that promotes employee engagement, performance, and retention.
• Maintain an accessible leadership presence, serving as a trusted resource for employees navigating workplace concerns or operational challenges.
• Build strong working relationships with team leads, analysts, and other on-site personnel.
• Proactively recognize staffing challenges, employee concerns, and emerging morale issues before they affect mission execution.
• Partner with program leadership and the PMO to address workforce needs, support employee development, and improve operational effectiveness.
• Promote a culture of ownership, responsiveness, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain approval for a polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree and relevant professional experience in intelligence operations, site leadership, operations management, or a related discipline. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), or similarly complex mission environments.
• 5+ years of experience supporting GEOINT operations or related intelligence missions.
• Previous experience as a Team Lead, Site Lead, Operations Lead, Mission Lead, or similar customer-facing leadership role.
• Familiarity with GEOINT and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) operations and mission workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate daily operations, manage competing priorities, and resolve challenges in dynamic environments.
• Experience engaging directly with government customers, senior stakeholders, or mission leadership.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust, establish credibility, and maintain effective relationships across diverse teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience preparing status reports, briefing leadership, and coordinating operational requirements.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, particularly in staffing accountability, deliverable tracking, and operational reporting.
• Working knowledge of personnel security, facility access procedures, and compliance requirements within classified environments.
• Demonstrated initiative, independent judgment, adaptability, and the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision.
• Ability and willingness to work on-site at the customer location in St. Louis, MO, five days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience supporting DoD or IC missions.
• Experience supporting multiple work teams or coordinating operations across different mission elements.
• Experience maintaining government staffing reports, contractor personnel accountability records, and contractual deliverables.
• Familiarity with security coordination, personnel onboarding, and access procedures at classified government facilities.
• Demonstrated success building relationships and resolving challenges in complex customer environments.
• Experience working with geographically distributed program management teams.
• Familiarity with Leidos processes and program management support functions.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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