Mission Planner/Orbital Analyst Trainer - Top Secret Clearance (Space/Satellite Systems)
United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs, United States
$120-170k
Full Time
a month ago
Job description
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At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.Mission Planner - Orbital Analysis Instructor (Sr Principal Systems Engineer)
Northrup Grumman Tactical Space Systems Division – Integrated Operations Directorate is looking for an experienced Mission Planner – Orbital Analysis Instructor to join the Training Department team to develop and deliver operations training curriculum to government customers. As an instructor, the selected candidate will be required to design, develop, and deliver training material to support automated scenarios, mission exercises and certification check rides for the customer and internal operations personnel. Other responsibilities include working with the Systems Engineering Lead to identify training needs and develop training plans and curriculum such as lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, mission scenarios, and evaluation tools. The Mission Planner – Orbital Analysis Instructor will also work with mission operations personnel to ensure training curriculum and scenarios accurately represent current operational documentation used during on-orbit checkout, satellite commissioning, and execution of the primary mission(s). This position may also support system development activities such as requirements management, architecture development, integration and test, and formal program milestones. This position requires extensive experience planning Rendezvous and Proximity Operations and will be responsible for creating and delivering orbit analysis and mission planning training to internal and external trainees. They may also be required to interface with program and customer personnel regularly.
Product deliveries include: Lesson Plans, PowerPoint Presentations, Training Videos, Mission Scenarios, Tests/Quizzes, Student Guides, Training Plans, and other training material as necessary to support contractual training requirements.
Specific experience and responsibilities shall include:
- Developing training material IAW Instructional System Design processes
- Deliver training to customers in support of instructor led training events
- Operating training simulators/systems in support of training activities
- On-Console Satellite Command and Control Satellite experience
- Ground System anomaly troubleshooting and resolution experience
- Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Mission Planning/Orbital Analyst Experience
- Work collaboratively in a team environment across engineering disciplines
- Participate in a fast-paced mission focused environment
- Must be able to meet rapid development timelines
- Experience w/ MS Office Suite products
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Education or related STEM field (Equivalent experience in lieu of a degree may be considered on a case by case basis)
- Clearance level: Top Secret SSBI / SCI eligible required
- Minimum of 9 years of Operations/Training experience
- U.S. citizen
Preferred Qualifications:
- Web/video based training development experience
- Lesson plan and test/quiz (original work) development experience within DoD programs
- Simulation/scenario development experience
- Experience utilizing training development tools such as Camtasia, Adobe Captivate, or Articulate Storyline 3
- Ability to conduct a range of modeling, simulation, and analysis in orbital maneuvers and orbit estimation
- Expertise in technical disciplines such as orbital propagation and perturbations, orbit estimation, orbital maneuvers, modeling, simulation, and analysis
- Familiarity with astrodynamics tools, including FreeFlyer, System Tool Kit (STK), NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT), and Orbit Determination Toolbox (ODTBX)
- Advanced Orbital Mechanics knowledge and experience
- Experience with agile process / scrum
- Experience with JIRA
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