Sensor Operations Analyst

Zel Technologies LLC; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

401k with company match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account with company

Job summary

ZelTech seeks a Sensor Operations Analyst to support the Air Force NTNF mission, monitoring USPDS and coordinating with AFTAC. The role requires handling sensor data, producing analyses, and delivering clear reports to clients. Extensive experience in quantitative methods and technical communication is valued.

Position is based at Patrick Space Force Base, FL, with rigorous duties and security clearances. Expect collaboration with SMEs and government operations to document SOPs and operational

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required; 5–8 years of relevant experience, or 9–12 years if no degree.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required; US citizen.
• Experience writing technical reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals.
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to solve practical problems and follow instructions, written or oral.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sensor trigger data and correlate with State of Health.
• Create historical records of sensor responses across environments.
• Collect and analyze data; develop models using spreadsheets and databases.
• Gather data from multiple organizational levels for analysis.
• Analyze SOH trends using SQL scripts.
• Apply methods like simulation, network analysis, and optimization.
• Write clear reports and deliver presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Utilize data tools to run analyses on simulated sensor data.
• Support forensic data collection, processing, and transmission.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Technical report writing

Oral & written communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

US citizen

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

Job description

Sensor Operations Analyst

Location: Patrick Space Force Base, FL

Requirements

• BA/BS degree and 5 to 8 years of relevant experience.
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance.
• In lieu of degree, 9-12 years of relevant experience.
• Experience writing technical reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals.
• Oral and written communications skills, in addition to interpersonal skills to work effectively with others.
• Solve practical problems and interpret a variety of instructions furnished orally or in writing.
• Background and drug screening check.
• Must be a US citizen.

Preferred Requirements

• USPDS Experience.
• PDO Experience.
• AFTAC experience.
• Data Analysis Expertise.

Summary

ZelTech is seeking a Sensor Operations Analyst to support the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) with monitoring and maintaining the United States Prompt Diagnostic System (USPDS), which falls under the National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) mission. The NTNF leverages AFTAC to detect, identify, and characterize nuclear events and to report nuclear forensic information to national authorities. The USPDS is a fully integrated, terrestrially based, geographically dispersed, centrally managed prompt detection and reporting system.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sensor trigger data; match findings to general sensor State of Health analysis.
• Create initial historical record of sensor responses to respective fielded environments and emplacements.
• Collect and analyze data and develop models, often using spreadsheets, databases and pragmatic, numerical approaches to solve problems.
• Gather relevant hard and soft data from systems at various levels within the organization.
• Analyze sensor State of Health trending data using structured Query language (SQL) scripts.
• Use analytical methods, such as simulation, network analysis, decision analysis, multi-criteria analysis, scenario analysis, soft systems modelling, optimization, and queuing theory.
• Write clear, concise reports of findings and creating and delivering presentations to clients, often requiring clear and persuasive explanation of complex processes to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Use toolkits,run interactive data language based tools against simulated sensor data.
• Provide the ability to collect, process, transmit, and analyze forensic data phenomena.
• Provide technical analytical support in the areas of speed of light (SOL) technologies (gamma, EMP, optical, and teller light).
• Review daily data feeds for review to discern, identify, and document man-made phenomena verses naturally occurring phenomena.
• Work with AFTAC Government operations and subject matter experts (SMEs) to understand background noise at sensor sites and their impact on data evaluation and review.
• Document any state of health (SOH) issues with sensors, software or communication systems from an estimated 75 sensor locations.
• Utilizing AFTAC provided templates, the analyst will document standard operating procedures, checklists, and concept of operations baselines and changes that occur as duties are refined.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k immediate vesting with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bonuses for performance
• Voluntary life/accidental death and dismemberment
• Educational assistance and special training programs
• Voluntary benefits (accidental, critical illness, whole life)
• Group life insurance (Company paid)
• Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance (Company paid)
• Paid Time Off ( TO), Holiday Leave, Jury Duty, and Military Leave
• Health and fitness reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Employee discounts on various services and products

Equal Opportunities

ZelTech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, genetic predisposition, or any other basis protected by law.