Defense Operations Center SME — C2 & Mission Planning Lead

PMAT Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PMAT Inc. seeks a Senior Operations Subject Matter Expert to provide operational expertise and technical integration support for defense capabilities.

You will serve as a critical link among users, engineers, program stakeholders, and capability developers to ensure alignment with operational requirements and effective integration. You will translate operational needs into actionable technical requirements, support exercises and evaluations, and deliver briefings to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in U.S. military operations, operational planning, command and control, or defense environments.
• Strong understanding of operational organization, processes, workflows, planning functions, and C2.
• Experience supporting operational planning, exercises, experimentation, mission planning, or contingency planning.
• Knowledge of targeting, information operations, and mission processes and their integration.
• Experience translating operational requirements into technical requirements for engineering teams.
• Experience coordinating across military, government, and defense organizations.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of planners, engineers, scientists, software developers, IT specialists, and government users.
• Ability to assess emerging technologies from an operational perspective and determine applicability and integration needs.
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills for senior audiences.
• Experience delivering briefings and operational assessments to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an operational SME, providing guidance on planning, workflows, and employment of emerging capabilities.
• Support stakeholder engagement and operational integration of emerging capabilities.
• Provide expertise in planning, information operations, targeting, and mission processes to support integration.
• Translate operational needs and feedback into actionable technical requirements for programs.
• Develop and refine operational plans, CONOPs, tactics, and mission scenarios with incorporated tech.
• Plan and support exercises, demonstrations, and experiments to evaluate capabilities and capture user feedback.
• Coordinate across organizations and partners to improve interoperability and transitions to operation.
• Provide operational context to SE/MBSE/software teams to reflect workflows and dependencies.
• Analyze exercise results and lessons learned to identify gaps and risks for advancement.
• Develop and deliver briefings, assessments, and recommendations for senior military/government leadership.

Skills

Operational planning

Command & Control

Defense experience

Operational workflows

Capability employment

Exercises

Mission planning

Contingency planning

Targeting

Information operations

Mission processes

Requirements translation

Technical requirements

Engineering liaison

Cross-agency coordination

Operational integration

Cross-functional teamwork

Emerging tech assessment

Leadership

Communication

Presentation

Briefings to leadership

Operational assessments

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Job description

PMAT Inc. seeks a Senior Operations Subject Matter Expert to provide operational expertise and technical integration support for defense capabilities.

You will serve as a critical link among users, engineers, program stakeholders, and capability developers to ensure alignment with operational requirements and effective integration. You will translate operational needs into actionable technical requirements, support exercises and evaluations, and deliver briefings to senior leadership.