Akima

Operations Manager - Active Secret Clearance (P)

Akima$100K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in military operations, defense, or simulation
  • Significant experience in operational planning and exercise design
  • Directing or supporting large-scale military exercises experience
  • Proven track record in developing operational scenarios for military environments
  • Experience as an exercise director, operations manager, or military advisor
  • Ability to translate requirements into training and simulation needs
  • Experience integrating systems and personnel into training events
  • Strong understanding of military Command and Control processes
  • Demonstrated leadership in high-pressure environments
  • Exceptional communication and analytical skills
  • SECRET Security Clearance required

Responsibilities

  • Define and document operational training requirements for military objectives
  • Provide operational and analytical expertise during the full exercise lifecycle
  • Lead development of large-scale operational scenarios
  • Offer subject matter expertise for scenarios from design to execution
  • Support refinement of requirements for simulations and mission-planning systems
  • Translate user requirements into actionable simulation and system specifications
  • Assist in exercise design for simulations and operational concepts

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with military operators and technical teams
  • Engagement in complex training and exercise environments
  • Contribution to measurable mission outcomes
  • Collaboration across a wide range of military and governmental stakeholders
  • Development of innovative training solutions
Full Job Description
Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Training, Exercise & Operations Analyst to work as operations manager providing operational leadership, analytical expertise, and subject matter expertise in the planning, design, integration, and execution of complex military training, testing, experimentation, and simulation events.

 

The ideal candidate will bring extensive operational experience inany service Aviation Command and Control (C2), warfare planning, exercise direction, scenario development, tactical training, mission planning, and operational systems integration. This position will serve as a senior operational advisor responsible for translating mission requirements into executable training and exercise solutions, developing realistic operational scenarios, supporting simulation requirements, and coordinating exercise integration and execution.

 

The successful candidate will work closely with military operators, exercise planners, engineers, simulation personnel, government stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure training and experimentation activities accurately represent operational requirements and deliver measurable mission outcomes.

Responsibilities
  • Define, analyze, and documentoperational training requirementsin support of military training, testing, experimentation, and exercise objectives.
  • Provide senior-leveloperational, analytical, and planning expertisethroughout the full exercise lifecycle, from initial requirements development and planning through integration, execution, assessment, and lessons learned.
  • Lead and support the development oflarge-scale operational scenarios, ensuring scenario design reflects realistic mission objectives, operational processes, command relationships, and employment of military forces.
  • Provide in-house subject matter expertise forscenario design, construction, refinement, validation, and execution.
  • Support the definition and refinement of requirements forvirtual and constructive simulations, scenario-generation tools, mission-planning systems, operational support systems, data-link capabilities, data-support tools, and collaboration environments.
  • Translate operational user requirements into actionablesimulation, system, data, and integration requirements.
  • Supportexercise design and development for constructive simulations, including development of operational concepts, scenario inputs, exercise objectives, injects, and supporting data.
  • Provide operational expertise inCommand and Control (C2), Marine Aviation, tactical data links, mission planning, Air Tasking Order (ATO) processes, and distributed operational environments.
Qualifications
  • 10+ years of progressive military, defense, government, training, exercise, operations, or simulation experience, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Significant experience inmilitary operations, operational planning, training, exercise design, or Command and Control (C2).
  • Demonstrated experience directing or supportinglarge-scale military exercises and training events.
  • Proven experience developing and executingoperational scenariosfor complex military environments.
  • Experience serving as anexercise director, warfare planner, operations manager, senior operational advisor, or military subject matter expert.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate operational requirements intotraining, simulation, system, and data requirements.
  • Experience working across operational and technical organizations to integrate systems, simulations, data, and personnel into executable training events.
  • Strong understanding ofmilitary C2 processes, mission planning, operational systems, and tactical operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams inhigh-pressure, time-sensitive operational environments.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, communication, briefing, and technical-writing skills.
  • Ability to engage effectively with senior military, government, industry, and technical stakeholders.
  • SECRET Security Clearance.
Job ID2026-25531 Work TypeOn-Site

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