Exercise Planner

Salary Range: 110000-170000

Infinity’s niche in the aerospace and defense industry is specialized solutions that help bridge the gap between space and ground. This is no small task, and we owe our success to our team who help us fulfill our mission; to match people with their legacies for betterment of the world. There is always a place at Infinity for a motivated, capable individual seeking a career to better the world. We prioritize supporting our team through exceptional benefits, work-life balance, and structured career development. At Infinity, WE ARE MORE – now, come be more with us!

Position Overview

A successful candidate will support a high performing team of Government and Contractor professionals to develop a concept of operations and notional system architecture to conduct future live, virtual and constructive training, exercise, and experiments for command and control of USSPACECOM assigned tactical units. The successful candidate will have experience with space operations, COA and TTP execution, and the Space Warfighting mission. The successful candidate will also have demonstrated the ability to operate in a dynamic and high energy environment with constantly changing tasking and priorities.

Position Location

Springfield, VA

Primary Responsibilities

Develop a concept of operations and notional system architecture necessary to conduct future live, virtual and constructive training, exercise, and experiments for command and control of Customer assigned tactical units.

Support the Training and Exercises Division in developing all aspects of exercises and experiments (e.g., Concept Development and Planning Conferences).

Support the Training and Exercises Division in all phases of exercise and experiment execution. This includes Pre-Start of Exercise (pre-STARTEX) training, road-to-war preparation and briefings, execution, White Cell support and the Lessons Learned process.

Participating in exercises and other government driven events to derive performance benchmarks and technical utility.

Generate, share, present briefings and products for senior leadership and enterprise awareness.

Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Work will be primarily conducted at in Springfield, VA at the customer site, with potential for travel within the United States and potentially overseas to support program execution.

Minimum Qualifications

Familiarity with Joint Operations and Joint Planning Process.

Experience with exercise planning and the joint event lifecycle (JELC) of exercise planning.

Excellent speaking skills—comfortable talking to senior military leadership.

Experienced in developing tactical, operational and higher headquarters level exercises, wargames and experiments.

Able to derive senior leadership guidance and recommendations for dynamic training environments and help shape future training needs.

Possess working knowledge of tools used for exercise planning such as Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS), Joint Master Scenario Events List (JMSEL), Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS), Defense Collaboration Services (DCS), Primary Decision Aid System (PDAS), Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES), Time Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD).

Experience working across multiple organizations, directorates and functions such as space operations, plans, intelligence, cyber operations, logistics and senior leadership to develop comprehensive scenarios and learning objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

  Familiar with:

Space operations/Satellite Operations.

DoD/NRO spacecraft.

Education/Experience  

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Clearance Requirement

Active TS/SCI with CI Poly is REQUIRED at time of start date

Salary Note

In compliance with Virginias Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is based on education, experience and responsibilities

Infinity Benefits

Great Company Culture.  Infinity firmly believes that our success is due to the happiness and personal satisfaction of our employees. 

Health Benefits.  100% Company Paid   Medical and Dental for you AND your family. 

Work that Stays at Work.  Genuine work/life balance and flexibility. We know our employees have lives outside of work and we support you in living them! 

Rest and Relaxation.   Three weeks Vacation – Front Loaded on the day you start, and  we pay for you to go on our company reward trip  (ask us about this!)

Health and Wellness.  We offer 48 hours of sick leave, in addition to your Vacation, as well as Flex-Spending options (Medical and Dependent Care) 

Prepare for the Future.  401(k) company contribution, with free professional financial planning advisors 

Education and Professional Training Reimbursement.   We support our employees career aspirations and growth! 

Profit Sharing Plan.   Infinity’s success is due to our employees. Eligible employees are able to participate in our Profit-Sharing Plan. 

And more!  

U.S. Citizenship is required.

EOE including disability/vet

To learn more about our company and benefits, please visit:  Infinity Careers (https://www.infinity.aero/careers)