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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Test & Evaluation (T&E) Support Specialist to provide direct support to a U.S. Navy Systems Command program office. The position involves leading and coordinating T&E planning, documentation, and execution activities throughout the system acquisition lifecycle. The selected candidate will support Navy acquisition efforts involving the integration, development, and modernization of C4I and other mission-critical systems.

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* Location: San Diego, CA
* Clearance Required: Secret
* Worksite: San Diego, CA - NAVWAR (On-Site)
* Employment Type: Full-Time
* Salary Range: $155,000 $180,000

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support planning, execution, direction, documentation, and reporting for experimental, developmental, and operational test events across operational, hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), virtual, and other applicable environments.
• Develop and coordinate test objectives, procedures, schedules, data collection plans, test reports, briefings, after-action materials, and other deliverables to ensure test activities are organized, traceable, and aligned to program objectives.
• Serve as a senior test lead during operational test events by coordinating participants, managing execution flow, tracking issues, capturing observations, and ensuring results are clearly documented and communicated.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams of engineers, developers, operators, analysts, and program personnel to support integrated testing of complex Navy capabilities across technical and operational environments.
• Apply experience with mission engineering, fires, modeling and simulation, and data analytics to help inform system design, operational concepts, test objectives, performance assessments, and risk-based recommendations.
• Support testing and evaluation of communications systems, routing, broadcast capabilities, tactical networks, datalinks, and Aegis Weapon System (AWS) related capabilities, as applicable to program needs.
• Provide leadership and management support within team-of-teams environments by coordinating priorities, tracking action items, communicating status, supporting issue resolution, and mentoring less experienced test personnel.
• Communicate test objectives, execution status, technical findings, operational impacts, risks, and recommendations clearly across operational, technical, program management, and executive audiences.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience planning, test directing, executing, documenting, and reporting on operational testing.
• Demonstrated leadership and management capability within cross-functional technical and operational team-of-teams environments.
• Ability to coordinate engineers, developers, operators, analysts, and program stakeholders in support of complex test events.
• Experience developing or reviewing test documentation, test reports, briefings, after-action materials, and other deliverables used to capture results, observations, issues, risks, and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical information for operational, program, and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate tasks, communicate status, manage stakeholders, support issue resolution, and provide senior-level test support in a dynamic program environment.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience supporting experimental, developmental, and/or operational test activities in HWIL, operational, shipboard, virtual, or similar test environments.
• Experience supporting mission engineering and/or fires-related efforts.
• Experience with modeling and simulation and data analytics to inform system design, operational concepts, test planning, or performance assessments.
• Experience with communications systems and routing, especially broadcast capabilities.
• Experience with tactical networks, datalinks, and/or Aegis Weapon System-related capabilities.
• Experience supporting Navy, DoD, shipboard, operational, or enterprise test environments.
• Experience supporting cloud platforms, containerization technologies, DevOps practices, and/or CI/CD pipelines.

Education and Certification Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Experience

Citizenship and Clearance requirements:

• US Citizenship required
• No dual citizenship
• Active DOD Secret security clearance is required

Travel & Passport:

• 10% travel estimate
• CONUS and OCONUS
• Valid passport will be required

Work Environment and Mental/Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions, absent undue hardships.

• Must be able to perform work in a stationary position at a minimum of 50% of the time.

• Must have the ability to operate computer and other office productivity machinery consistently during work hours.

• Must have the ability to communicate, exchange and review information and ideas in an in-person or virtual setting through the use of online tools and available communication mediums.

• Occasional movement or traversing of one's environment may be required.

• Constant use of mental alertness.

• Frequent work under deadlines.

The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as deemed necessary

Job Classification:
Associate II
$155,000 - $180,000

Disclaimer:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at-will relationship.

An Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.