L3Harris

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Space Operations Joint Exercise Planner (Active TS/SCI w Poly Required)

Job Code: 11942

Job Location:  Springfield, VA

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies has an opening for a Space Ops Joint Exercise Planning Engineer for an important national Security Program.

The successful candidate will support a high performing team of Government and Contractor professionals to develop a concept of operations and notional system architecture to conduct future live, virtual and constructive training, exercise, and experiments for command and control of USSPACECOM assigned tactical units. The successful candidate will have experience with space operations, COA and TTP execution, and the Space Warfighting mission. The successful candidate will also have demonstrated the ability to operate in a dynamic and high energy environment with constantly changing tasking and priorities. This position will be supporting the Space Superiority Business Division of the Space Superiority and Geospatial Sector within the Space and Airborne Systems Segment.

Essential Functions:

• Develop a concept of operations and notional system architecture necessary to conduct future live, virtual and constructive training, exercise, and experiments for command and control of USSPACECOM assigned tactical units.
• Support the Training and Exercises Division in developing all aspects of exercises and experiments (e.g., Concept Development and Planning Conferences).
• Support the Training and Exercises Division in all phases of exercise and experiment execution. This includes Pre-Start of Exercise (pre-STARTEX) training, road-to-war preparation and briefings, execution, White Cell support and the Lessons Learned process.
• Participating in exercises and other government driven events to derive performance benchmarks and technical utility.
• Generate, share, present briefings and products for senior leadership and enterprise awareness.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Active Top-Secret clearance with CI Poly required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with exercise planning and the joint event lifecycle (JELC) of exercise planning.
• Excellent speaking skills—comfortable talking to senior military leadership.
• Experienced in developing tactical, operational and higher headquarters level exercises, wargames and experiments.
• Able to derive senior leadership guidance and recommendations for dynamic training environments and help shape future training needs.
• Possess working knowledge of tools used for exercise planning such as Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS), Joint Master Scenario Events List (JMSEL), Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS), Defense Collaboration Services (DCS), Primary Decision Aid System (PDAS), Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES), Time Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD).
• Experience working across multiple organizations, directorates and functions such as space operations, plans, intelligence, cyber operations, logistics and senior leadership to develop comprehensive scenarios and learning objectives.