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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
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Key Responsibilities:
Technical Support: Provides subject matter expertise and technical support to facilitate the development of GEOINT capabilities cooperatively with development contractors and mission partners.
Operations: Perform engineering and analysis to ensure programs successfully deliver mission capabilities during operations from tasking, execution, processing and dissemination.
Requirements: Interface directly with development Prime Contractors in the role of oversight, monitoring of operations and maintenance activities and ensuring alignment with Government requirements and objectives
Management: Manage projects and conduct assessment including operational availability/capacity, maintenance, Space vehicle checkout, and initial operational capability.
Reporting: Advise operational decisions to include improvement and discrepancy report priorities.
Planning: Conduct Strategic planning for both mission architecture needs (technical trade studies, definition of future architecture planning, software service recommendations etc.) and programmatic (Program Budget Guidance, cost estimation, generation of acquisition schedules)
CONOPS: Develop, update and execute Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) across users and O&M contractors for a new proliferated system to be operated and tasked like no other system currently in operations.
Performance: Develop and track enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface metrics for things like system availability, timeliness, duty cycle, tasking allocation, and collection
Work Environment:
Location: On-site
Travel Requirements: Minimal
Working Hours: Standard
Qualifications:
Required:
Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, or Business Management with appropriate technical experience
Operations: 10+ years’ experience with IC, DoD, and/or commercial space architectures, systems and operations
On-Orbit: Demonstrated experience in spacecraft on-orbit initialization and operations
RADAR: Demonstrated experience in tasking and processing methodology of RADAR
Tasking: Experience in RADAR tasking, command & control, collection, processing, and dissemination
Ground Systems: Experience in Space Systems Ground Software, Space Development Programs or Mission Operations programs
MOD: Experience working at or with MOD ADFs, GED and NGA
Reporting: Experience with Modeling and Sim and reporting metrics
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KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
Inclusion and Diversity at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient.
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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