Operations Planner

ensco; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ENSCO Inc. is seeking an Operations Planner to work directly with Government mission leaders responsible for generating, presenting, and sustaining forces for competition, crisis, and conflict.

The planner turns strategic intent, evolving threats, supported-command demand, and operational feedback into executable campaign plans, force-readiness priorities, decision packages, and fielding actions. The planner will connect current operations to future capability decisions by integrating mission

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in operations research, national security studies, military strategy, aerospace studies, political science, intelligence studies, emergency management, logistics, business, engineering, data analytics, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience; equivalent applied experience may be considered where contract and grade requirements permit.
• Experience in operational planning, mission operations, readiness, exercises, logistics, intelligence, cyber operations, continuity, emergency management, or a closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Translate intent into planning products. Draft objectives, tasks, milestones, measures, decision points, risk statements, execution matrices, and briefing content.
• Support force readiness and presentation by integrating mission demand, threat updates, personnel, training, equipment, logistics, and resource data.
• Maintain campaign integration by coordinating inputs across operations, intelligence, cyber, communications, logistics, training, and security.
• Advance mission resilience by developing continuity options and infrastructure risk analyses for mission-critical operations.
• Turn feedback into action by capturing lessons, updating logs, and linking findings to training and capability outcomes.
• Build concepts and exercises with employment concepts, mission threads, scenarios, and evaluation criteria.
• Produce decision-ready analysis including option summaries, readiness dashboards, and concise recommendations.
• Run disciplined planning rhythms with agendas, read-aheads, and version-controlled products aligned to government priorities.

Skills

Operations planning

Mission readiness

Logistics

Cyber operations

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

For more than 50 years, ENSCO has been providing leading-edge engineering, science and advanced technology solutions to governments and private industries worldwide. ENSCO prides itself in creating and applying advanced technologies for mission success. We provide systems engineering, integration, and advanced technology services to transform the future safety, security, and resiliency of critical missions on the ground, in the air, in space, and in the information systems that connect these domains. Learn more about ENSCO.

Position Description

Job description ENSCO Inc. is a diverse engineering and technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions supporting mission success, safety, and security for government and commercial customers worldwide.

We are seeking an Operations Planner to work directly with Government mission leaders responsible for generating, presenting, and sustaining forces for competition, crisis, and conflict in a contested space environment. The position turns strategic intent, evolving threats, supported-command demand, and operational feedback into executable campaign plans, force-readiness priorities, decision packages, and fielding actions.

The planner will connect current operations to future capability decisions by integrating mission planning, operational intelligence, cyber defense, training, logistics, infrastructure, continuity, and transition considerations. The focus is decision velocity: expose operational risk early, define measurable knowledge points, preserve viable options, and accelerate mission-ready capability while Government decision owners retain all formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• - Translate intent into planning products. Draft objectives, tasks, milestones, measures, decision points, risk statements, execution matrices, and briefing content that move strategic priorities into coordinated action.
• - Support force readiness and presentation. Integrate mission demand, threat updates, personnel, training, equipment, logistics, and resource data to identify readiness gaps, preparation priorities, and force-package risks.
• - Maintain campaign integration. Coordinate inputs across operations, intelligence, cyber, communications, logistics, training, infrastructure, security, and partner teams; track dependencies and surface conflicts early.
• - Advance mission resilience. Develop and update continuity products, Primary/Alternate/Contingency/Emergency options, essential-service dependencies, infrastructure risks, and reconstitution actions for mission-critical operations.
• - Turn feedback into action. Capture operational and exercise lessons, analyze deficiencies, update action and decision logs, and connect validated findings to training changes, capability outcomes, learning events, and early-fielding priorities.
• - Build concepts and exercises. Draft concepts of employment, mission threads, exercise objectives, scenarios, evaluation criteria, and after-action products aligned to evolving threats and joint or combined operations.
• - Produce decision-ready analysis. Develop option summaries, readiness dashboards, schedule and resource views, risk assessments, and concise recommendations centered on mission effect, time-to-field, integration complexity, and operational sustainability.
• - Run disciplined planning rhythms. Prepare agendas and read-aheads, support planning events, capture decisions, assign and track actions, maintain version control, and keep products aligned to Government priorities and schedules.
• - Support rapid capability transition. Help define operational‑use objectives, user feedback plans, acceptance evidence, training and infrastructure needs, and transition actions for new or improved mission capabilities.
• - Grow professional judgment. Seek feedback, challenge assumptions with evidence, communicate emerging risk early, and take increasing ownership of complex work under senior planner direction.

Qualifications Required

• - Bachelor's or advanced degree in operations research, national security studies, military strategy, aerospace studies, political science, intelligence studies, emergency management, logistics, business, engineering, data analytics, or a closely related discipline, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience; equivalent applied experience may be considered where contract and grade requirements permit.
• - Relevant experience in operational planning, mission operations, readiness, exercises, logistics, intelligence, cyber operations, continuity, emergency management, or a