Job Description

Required Travel: 0 - 10% 

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40 

Security Clearance: Secret 

Level of Experience: Mid 

Mission Technologies a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries is looking for a qualified individual to fill the role of Mission Coordinator Training Event Subject Matter Expert (SME).  The Mission Coordinator is a member of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) -Corona Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Operations Team that assists with the planning, design, and execution of Fleet Synthetic Training (FST) events in a Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environment.  This position is located in Virginia Beach, VA at the Oceana Annex Dam Neck.

The FST-LVC Training Event Mission Coordinator performs engineering, operations, and project management activities in order to support the training audience and training command use of the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) and associated modeling and simulation tools.  

This Training Event SME works in support of the Navy’s growing demand to employ an LVC integrated environment into fleet training events.  The LVC initiative will enable all live units and virtual/constructive entities to detect, track, classify and engage all other entities and units, with both kinetic and non-kinetic effects, within the limitations of the real world systems. 

“Position requires flexibility to work occasional non-standard work hours and work weeks of more than 40 hours to meet business, customer, and contractual requirements.  Additionally, position requires flexibility as duties and responsibilities may be adjusted to meet business, customer, and contractual requirements.”

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Designs and delivers programs to train all levels of personnel.
• Develops tests and visual aids, conducts training classes, and develops criteria for evaluating effectiveness of training activities.
• Keeps abreast of training and development research: learning theory, motivation theory, and new materials, methods, and techniques.
• Develops in-house programs and practices to identify developmental needs, including preparing personnel for more responsible positions and increasing effectiveness in present assignments.
• May evaluate and/or oversee contractors or vendors to develop and/or administer training programs. May be responsible for development of e-learning programs.
• Work onsite at Dam Neck in support of the training command’s design and execution of LVC FST training events. 
• Serve as NSWC-Corona’s NITE LVC technical and operations SME in support of training events.
• Work with NCTE Operations and Engineering Teams to coordinate and plan systems and personnel support for events.  Adjust daily working hours occasionally to match times zones around the world where events are occurring.  Occasional travel is required in support of event planning conferences.
• Monitor event operations for compliance within NCTE standards and LVC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Recommend changes to SOPs as needed and help to develop new SOPs as LVC training operational requirements expand.  
• Use of SharePoint, Confluence and JIRA tools to share event schedules and documents.  
• Produce Operations and Engineering FST-LVC technical project notes, manning plans, and event reports that clearly describe event activities, issues, and corrective actions. 
• Keep leadership informed of LVC progress and issues and help coordinate resolutions for any technical or operational issues.
• Construct of Operational and Tactical Levels of Warfare events
• Conducting Fleet, Joint, or COCOM-level exercises
• Tactical Training Range operations and management
• Tactical Data Link operations 
• Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) systems and operations 
• Joint Semi-Automated Forces (JSAF) simulation or other HLA/DIS modeling tools
• Shipboard combat systems and training systems
• Well-developed personal and written communication skills 
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office tools
   

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field OR
• 4 years relevant experience with Masters in related field OR
• High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years relevant experience
• Must currently hold and be able to maintain a US Secret clearance, with the ability to upgrade to a US Top Secret clearance if required.

Physical Requirements

• May require working in an industrial or shipboard environment.
• Capable of climbing ladders, standing for extended periods, and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

This opportunity resides with Live, Virtual, Constructive Solutions, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. As a trusted partner to our military customers, we design, develop and operate systems that bring together service members from across the globe to help you train like you fight, because we understand that preparation requires full coordination—not readiness in piece parts.

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.