Advisor, Senior (MPTE)

Core Services Group, Inc.; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Services Group, Inc. is seeking an Advisor, Senior to support a U.S. Navy customer.

The position focuses on readiness and sustainment to improve operational availability, mission effectiveness, and cost control. The role uses data-driven models and AI-enabled approaches to produce readiness assessments, analytics, and dashboards from diverse sources. The successful candidate will help define strategic directions, align with senior leadership, and apply state-of-the-art practices across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent specialized experience in a relevant field.
• Fifteen years of related experience with twelve years in MPTE-related areas.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance or higher; U.S. Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Develop the program's strategic direction, vision, and mission in collaboration with senior client leadership.
• Advise on evolving program plans and change management to improve business methodology.
• Analyze and optimize business, operational, and financial processes and relationships.
• Identify and propose approaches to redefine, plan, design, and modify current practices and processes.
• Develop program/project plans, guidelines, and controls.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, physics, operations research, statistics, or engineering

Six years of additional related work experience (substitution)

Job description

Hiring an Advisor, Senior to support a U.S. Navy customer. This program provides readiness and sustainment support to improve operational availability and mission effectiveness while controlling cost and optimizing constrained resources. Uses collaborative, data-driven operating models that include end-to-end readiness ecosystems (operations, maintenance, engineering, supply chain, manpower/training, and financial management). AI-enabled approaches are a desired element of the solution to improve the speed, scale, and consistency of analysis and decision support. The work includes producing readiness assessments and decision-support products; establishing and maintaining consistent readiness metrics and reporting; and integrating data from multiple authoritative and legacy sources to deliver actionable analytics and dashboards. Advanced analytics and, where appropriate, AI/ML techniques (e.g., forecasting, anomaly detection, natural language processing of maintenance narratives) are used to identify readiness drivers and constraints, improve predictive analytics, and inform trade-space decisions that balance near-term readiness with longer-term capability objectives, including Fleet legacy platform/systems sustainment and modernization transitions.

Location

Norfolk, Virginia

Responsibilities

The Advisor, Senior will be responsible for working to develop the strategic direction, vision, and mission for the program. Provides insight and advice concerning strategic direction and applicability of up-to-date, industry standard practices. Is responsible for developing high‑level vision with the program/project manager and senior client leadership to influence objectives of complex efforts. In addition, the selected candidate will:

• Serve as a senior advisor to the Government and provide support to the customer on program/project operations.
• Determine the adequacy and acceptability of evolving program/project plans and change management strategies, and mold processes and operations to improve the customer business methodology.
• Apply knowledge of business management principles, organizational structures, and information management techniques to formulate long‑ and short‑term management plans designed to achieve the desired outcomes of the organization.
• Analyze in‑place business, operational, and financial processes and management relationships.
• Identify and recommend programmatic approaches to re‑define, plan, organize, design, develop, and modify current practices and processes.
• Develop program/project plans, guidelines, and controls.
• Perform tasks that require both practical experience and theoretical, state‑of‑the‑art, technical knowledge in a specialty area.
• Demonstrate a broad scope of expertise sufficient to support an entire domain of client operations—maintenance & supply chain management, total force management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, physics, operations research, statistics, or engineering from an accredited college or university, or equivalent specialized experience. Allowable substitution: Six years of additional related work experience.
• Fifteen (15) years of related experience and of that; twelve (12) years must be direct experience in the following concentration area: MPTE—supports the applicable military and/or government and/or civilian contractor manpower, personnel, education, and training field.
• Prior military experience as a Commissioned Officer and/or senior level DoD government experience (GS14‑15, O5‑O6) may be considered favorably.
• Must have an active DoD Secret Clearance or higher.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.