Battlespace Awareness Operator – Senior

KBR Careers; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses and additional compensation options

Job summary

KBR Careers is seeking a Senior Battlespace Awareness Operator in Springfield, Virginia. This role is critical in managing national security operations, leading teams during high-stakes events, and overseeing mission protection. You will be responsible for coordinating across operations centers, ensuring situational awareness, and providing decision-support products to senior stakeholders.

Successful candidates will have a Master's degree (or relevant experience) and a TS/SCI clearance, with skills in space domain awareness and operational leadership.

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 11 years of experience or Bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience or 14 years of experience without a degree.
• Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
• Expertise in coordinating time-sensitive operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead operations during critical events and ensure timely execution.
• Oversee database integrity for high-interest objects.
• Deliver executive-level briefings ensuring accuracy.

Skills

Leadership in operations

Space domain awareness

Event response management

Decision support product development

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent experience

Bachelor’s degree with relevant experience

Tools

STK

SDA tool suites

Job description

Title

Battlespace Awareness Operator – Senior

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead BSA operations during shift and critical events; establish priorities, assign tasks, and ensure timely execution of mission protection actions.
• Direct advanced event characterization and I&W assessments; provide high‑confidence COA recommendations and risk trade‑offs to decision‑makers.
• Oversee RSO custody and database integrity for high‑interest objects; resolve complex discrepancies and document analytic judgments.
• Coordinate and deconflict mission protection responses across operations centers and mission partners; ensure consistent situational awareness.
• Deliver routine and executive‑level briefings and written products; ensure accuracy, timeliness, and correct classification/releasability.
• Lead development and refinement of checklists, thresholds, and TTPs based on operational lessons learned and system performance.
• Lead training and mentoring for operators; conduct quality assurance reviews of products and provide performance feedback.
• Support integration of new SDA capabilities by defining operational acceptance criteria, participating in test events, and validating procedures for transition.

Required Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Master’s degree and 11 years of relevant experience with demonstrated expertise OR Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience with demonstrated expertise OR no degree and 14 years of relevant experience with demonstrated expertise.
• Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with adjudicated polygraph.
• Demonstrated expertise leading or coordinating operations in a watch floor/operations center environment and managing time‑sensitive event response.
• Demonstrated expertise in space domain awareness, mission protection, and producing decision‑support products for senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant experience with STK and/or SDA tool suites, including developing workflows, thresholds, and analytic best practices.
• Experience coordinating operations across Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, or Intelligence Community mission partners.
• Subject matter expertise in counterspace threat capabilities, space surveillance networks, and mission protection planning.

Additional Compensation

KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign‑on bonus, relocation benefits, short‑term incentives, long‑term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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