L3Harris

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Space Operations Mission Protection (Active TS/SCI w/ Poly Required)

Job Code: 9758

Job Location:  Springfield, VA

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies has an opening for a Space Ops Mission Protection Engineer for an important national Security Program.

The successful applicant will provide systems engineering and advisory support as a Mission Protection Engineer.

This role will provide support for space threat analysis and protection, tactical planning, and will support and participate in various internal and mission partner external exercises, Master Scenario Event Lists (MSEL), plans, procedures, checklists, after action reports, and final technical reports. The role will also require support in planning and execution meetings, participating in working groups and execution events, managing Courses of Action (COAs), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), effectiveness assessment activities, and developing Lessons Learned summaries and products.

The successful candidate should also have experience in developing space threat response plans, and identifying and updating training objectives from approved plans in coordination with the respective customers and participants, identifying existing and/or emerging exercise and advance training opportunities in which training objectives may be fulfilled, matching training objectives with identified exercise/advanced training opportunities, and compiling all data into a presentation for senior leadership review and approval.

Essential Functions:

• Support the Mission Protection Division in developing all aspects of space threat analysis and response.
• Participating in exercises and other government driven events to derive performance benchmarks and technical utility.
• Work full time at a customer site.
• Generate, share, present briefings and products for senior leadership and enterprise awareness.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required 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.
• Experience with space asset threat analysis and protection.
• Understanding of orbital mechanics.
• Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with formal DoD Planning functions to include crisis action planning, deliberate planning, and orders development processes.
• Excellent speaking skills—comfortable talking to senior military leadership.
• Able to derive senior leadership guidance and recommendations for dynamic training environments and help shape future training needs.
• 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.
• Experience or Proficiency in:
  • Understanding of JP5 with a focus on tactical planning.
  • Mission Partner/Stakeholder collaboration.
  • Space operations.
  • Database management.
  • Confluence, JIRA, and/or SharePoint proficiency.