Job Description
Team PAC Group LLC is seeking a Senior Test Planner to support Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) and Operational Test and Evaluation efforts in a hybrid role supporting operations in Yorktown and Suffolk. The candidate will be able to work remotely as well. This position supports the planning, coordination, execution, and assessment of complex joint tests and evaluations for military missions, systems, and emerging technologies.
The selected candidate will support the joint exercises process, the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC), and joint test activities by developing test concepts, test scenarios, test plans, schedules, instrumentation requirements, and risk mitigation strategies. This role is ideal for a highly organized, technically strong professional with experience in JT&E environments, program planning, and cross-functional coordination across government, military, and contractor teams.
Requirements
Test Planning & Evaluation Support
- Support JT&E and Operational Test and Evaluation planning and execution activities.
- Work with the joint exercises process, the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC), and joint tests and evaluations.
- Observe and analyze test and evaluation operations to ensure conformity with military doctrine, policies, and procedures.
- Develop test concepts, test scenarios, test designs, test products, and candidate test venues for JT&E projects.
- Identify resource requirements and support planning for joint tests and evaluations.
- Develop program test plans and detailed test plans.
- Determine test instrumentation requirements and support field data collection planning.
- Build field instrumentation matrices and develop catalogs for data collection.
- Perform technical risk assessments, identify test limitations, and assist in development of risk mitigation strategies.
Technical & Analytical Support
- Support software development activities related to test planning and evaluation efforts.
- Apply experience with UNIX software, hardware, and network architectures.
- Support database design, development, and administration.
- Contribute technical expertise in one or more areas including electronic warfare, hardware and software design, flight software design, and space technology development and testing.
- Analyze technical and operational data to support project goals and mission requirements.
Program Management & Coordination
- Develop, refine, and maintain project schedules, including allocation of resources and identification of project tasks and milestones.
- Provide technical and program management support across JT&E efforts.
- Support leadership briefings, status reports, planning products, and decision-support materials.
- Coordinate with government, military, and contractor stakeholders to support program objectives.
- Support quick-turn tasking and operate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as systems, mathematics, science, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, and at least 5 years of test and evaluation experience; or
- Master’s degree in a technical field such as systems, mathematics, science, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline; or
- Bachelor’s degree in a non-technical field with at least 8 years of test and evaluation experience.
- Minimum 5 years of test and evaluation experience in JT&E or Operational Test and Evaluation.
- Minimum 6 years of military or government civilian experience.
- Knowledge of JT&E processes and procedures.
- Experience developing test concepts, scenarios, designs, products, and supporting documentation.
- Experience developing program test plans and detailed test plans.
- Experience developing and maintaining project schedules, resource plans, and project milestones.
- Experience performing technical risk assessments and supporting risk mitigation planning.
- Experience observing and analyzing test and evaluation operations for compliance with military doctrine, policies, and procedures.
- Experience developing software.
- Experience with UNIX software, hardware, and network architectures.
- Ability to build field instrumentation matrices and develop data collection catalogs.
- Experience in database design, development, and administration.
- Familiarity with determining test instrumentation requirements.
- Demonstrated program management expertise, preferably as a project lead.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including MS Project and PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to multitask and respond to quick-turnaround requests.
- Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar subject areas needed to support program goals.
- Self-starter who can both lead and support within a team environment.
- Flexible and readily adaptable to change.
- Familiarity with JT&E technical, programmatic, and contractual environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting JT&E programs as a technical and program management support contractor.
- Experience with one or more technologies including electronic warfare, hardware and software design, and flight software design.
- Experience developing and testing space technology.
- Former military electronic warfare operator.
- Expertise and strong interest in the technical areas listed above.
Security Clearance Requirement
- Active Top Secret clearance – SCI required.
Work Requirements
- Ability to support hybrid work across remote and on-site locations based on mission requirements.
- Ability to support meetings, planning sessions, and test events in Yorktown and Suffolk, Virginia.
- Ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, cross-disciplinary environment.
- Willingness to support time-sensitive deliverables and quick-turn requirements as needed.
Place of Performance
- Hybrid: Remote / Yorktown, VA / Suffolk, VA
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