Exercise Experiment Planner

Cape Henry Associates; Fort Bliss (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare plans

Great Place to Work certification

Job summary

JANUS Research Group in Fort Bliss, TX seeks a Joint/Multinational Experiment Planner to coordinate, schedule, and synchronize all experiment planning activities under the G3 Plans Division. An active Secret clearance is required, with experience in MDMP and large-scale exercises.

The role includes staffing, tracking and prioritizing taskings, delivering status briefs to leadership, and ensuring ranges, training areas, and instrumentation are reserved and properly resourced for events and IPRs.

Qualifications

• Experience in executing the Army MDMP and in planning large-scale operations or exercises.
• Experience with joint/multinational experiments or operations.
• Ability to brief and present analytical results to senior leadership.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and data coordination.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing comprehensive plans for internal and external integration to support experiment planning.
• Staffing, tracking, and approving experiment-related tasks, products and documents.
• Provide status briefs to the division chief and Lead Planner; summarize progress and risks.
• Coordinate ranges, training areas, ranges, airspace, and instrumentation resources for events.

Skills

MDMP

Large-scale planning

Live-Virtual-Constructive

Joint/Multinational

Briefing skills

Microsoft Office

Education

Army Command and Staff College Graduate

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Career Opportunities withJANUS Research Group

Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify, before applying, that you meet the minimum requirements of the position.

Target salary range: $85k - $90k. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Position

Joint/Multinational Experiment Planner

Location

U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command, Fort Bliss, TX

Position Description

Serves as an experiment planner in the US Army Joint Modernization Command (JMC) G3 Plans Division. Responsible to the Chief of Plans and experiment-specific Lead Planner (Government) to assist in coordinating, scheduling and synchronizing all experiment related planning activities, experiment training support requirements, assessments, and operations. More specifically, the individual performs the following tasks as directed by the G3, Chief of Plans: Assist the JMC Lead Planner in developing a comprehensive plan and strategy for the internal and external integration planning and coordination actions/activities required to support experiment planning. Provides sound, mature advice and recommendations to the Lead Planner for effective orchestration of events and activities to support experiment planning. Assists the Lead Planner with managing ongoing actions, status, prioritizing planning actions and provides comprehensive status briefs to division chief or G3 in the absence of the Lad Planner. Assists the Lead Planner with staffing, receipt, review, tracking and approval of all experiment related taskings, products and documents. Provide design and maintenance of various data collections and instrumentation networks.

Assists the Lead Planner with developing and managing and experiment support requirements, timelines to support experiment planning (as an example identify key events and dates, planning conferences and IPRs). In conjunction with the Lead Planner represents JMC at planning and resource meetings ensuring ranges, training and maneuver areas, simulation facilities are reserved and can adequately support experiment requirements.

In support of the Lead Planner, monitors progress of work and reports status works actions through to completion. Ensures event resourcing is coordinated and suspense’s are meet during the planning process; as an example, orders, annexes, range and ammunition forecasting, airspace, spectrum and other training support requirements with external agencies to resource training and test events. Provides analysis of all proposed systems for capability and its proper integration into the network architecture.

Specific knowledge, skills, and experience include:

• Competence in executing the Army’s Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)
• Experience in planning and executing large-scale combat operations, exercises, or experiments at brigade-level and above
• Experience with planning large-scale, Live-Virtual-Constructive training experiments
• Experience in planning and executing Joint/Multinational experiments or combat operations
• Experience facilitating, briefing, and presenting analytical results (written or orally) to senior leadership (Army, other Service, and Joint)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

General requirements

• Army Brigade or Division-level staff experience
• Service as a maneuver Battalion or Brigade Operations Officer (S3) or Executive Officer (XO)
• Army Command and Staff College Graduate
• Experience serving in Joint/Multinational operations
• Service as a Battalion or Brigade Operations Officer (S3) or Executive Officer (XO)

Travel

Approximately 20% a year both CONUS and OCONUS

• We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products. As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards.
• JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work™

JANUS Research Group provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process.

Thank you for considering a career with JANUS Research Group.

JANUS Research Group participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. JANUS Research Group is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. It is company policy to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practice without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or disability.

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.