M&S Event Mission Manager (Mid-Level)

Freedom Real Estate; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

401(k) match

medical

dental

vision

life insurance

short-term disability

long-term disability

flexible spending accounts

Health Saving Accounts

Health Reimbursement Accounts

EAP

education assistance

paid time off

holidays

Job summary

Torch Technologies is seeking a qualified M&S Event Mission Manager to support the Missile Defense Agency engineering efforts in a HWIL simulation environment. The role involves testing, scheduling, and coordinating with DoD partners to ensure mission success and alignment with program goals.

You will liaise with software, analysis, and test teams, manage resources, and contribute to risk assessment and planning for complex MDS events. U.S. Citizenship and secret clearance are required.

Qualifications

• US citizenship with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.
• Experience leading integrated system test events.
• Familiarity with real-time distributed simulation infrastructures and MDS configurations.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning support for MDS test events and risk reduction activities.
• Coordinate with multiple teams and stakeholders across MDS and DoD partners.
• Maintain awareness of planning and testing issues and report to leadership.
• Review test plans and schedules to ensure resource availability and timely delivery.
• Consolidate and track M&S issues through resolution and communicate status updates.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering

Tools

MDS HWIL test environment

Real-time distributed simulation

Job description

Torch Technologies Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

M&S Event Mission Manager

The M&S Event Mission Manager will support the mission of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering Directorate Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Office to test the Missile Defense System (MDS) in a distributed Hardware-In-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation environment, including MDS Ground Test (GT) events and MDS Flight Test support (pre-mission risk reduction, mission execution team training, and post-flight reconstruction), as well as M&S development and test support to other Department of Defense (DoD) Partners. As a M&S Event Mission Manager your duties will include the following, but are not limited to:

• Provide strategic planning support for MDS Test Events, Framework M&S and element M&S risk reduction activities.
• Act as a liaison between the M&S software developers, product integration team, analysis team, test team, infrastructure team, MDA Elements and MDS participants and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate with the M&S functional areas to consolidate capabilities to meet MDA and MDS Stakeholders’ requirements.
• Maintain management awareness of planning activities and issues related to development and testing.
• Participate in and present findings at working group meetings, peer reviews, and other technical interchange meetings.
• Provide project management support for assigned events and activities (projects), to include developing and delivering reporting for leadership review to support decision making on cost, schedule, performance and risk.
• Participate in MDA planning and coordination meetings.
• Review test plans and test event schedules to evaluate ability to support across activities, with consideration for allocation of resources required within timeframes.
• Coordinate test resources (facilities, personnel, etc.) with simulation software developers for new capabilities and implementation strategies.
• Coordinate capture of development schedules, development integration points and test plans.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify M&S engineering criteria to be demonstrated during risk reduction activities.
• Effectively communicate M&S event/activity status updates to stakeholders.
• Plan and coordinate continuous developmental activities for M&D and MDS participants, as assigned.
• Consolidate and track M&S issues through resolution.
• Provide Risk Management recommendations to leadership.
• Identify and communicate event and/or activity risks, develop mitigation strategies, monitor and report on the impact.

Qualifications

U.S. Citizenship Bachelor’s Degree with emphasis in Business, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 5+ years of relevant experience. Active Secret Clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI Experience working within MDA Ground Test environments. Experience with MDA and Other Government Agencies (OGA) demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of overall MDS infrastructure and participants capabilities. Experience leading integrated system test events. Familiarity with real-time distributed simulation infrastructures; MDS Element configurations and operations; and DOD Operational Testing (OT) and Development Testing (DT)

Preferred Qualifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar Demonstrated Project Management Experience Understanding of cloud testing principles and the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern test and evaluation environments

Schedule & Location

Schedule: M-F; 8-5
Work Location: Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Travel: yes, up to 25%
Relocation Assistance Available: No
Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No

Benefits

• ESOP participation
• 401(k) match
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• Health Saving Accounts
• Health Reimbursement Accounts
• EAP
• education assistance
• paid time off
• holidays

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Company Culture

Thank you for your interest in Torch Technologies. Torch Technologies is dedicated to providing superior research, development, and engineering services to the Department of Defense. As defense contractors, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. From the CEO's desk... When Bill Roark and Don Holder founded Torch in 2002, they knew that employees were the company's greatest asset. They believed that offering employees a stake in the outcome, by making them all owners, was critical to building a successful organization. I share that feeling. Bill and Don's original intent was fully achieved in 2011 when Torch converted to a 100 percent S-Corp ESOP. Since that time, the company has grown over ten-fold and gained national recognition for the success we have demonstrated as an employee-owned company. Today, Torch continues to respect the individual contributions of our employee-owners and to share the rewards of our success. In addition, we continue to foster an environment of employee recognition, respect, development, and comradery while striving to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We recognize that core to our company is a culture of trust with our employees, customers, business partners, and community. Our management team is committed to continue to earn that trust. This past year, Torch proudly announced that we were Certified Evergreen. A timely achievement for Torch employee-owners as they will celebrate Torch’s 20th anniversary this October, becoming Certified Evergreen signifies that while Torch employee-owners can look back on Torch’s past with pride, Torch is also looking forward. Becoming Certified Evergreen means that Torch has committed to finding ways to make 100 percent employee ownership sustainable so that Torch will remain a private company forever. Going forward, Torch will continue to evolve to address market and technology changes in order to become a major provider of cost-effective technical services and solutions to the Warfighter. We are making significant investments into facilities, equipment, business systems, and research to enable us to provide innovations and timely business services to our clients. We feel that always looking to improve our service is key to sustaining customer trust in the future. Likewise, we believe that continuing to share ownership is one of the ways we maintain employee trust and an unparalleled commitment to succeed. Combined, these timeless principles form the basis of the Torch culture. A culture that we are committed to continue and strive to pass on to the next generation of employee-owners as an Evergreen Company.