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Operations Planner

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

For more than 50 years, ENSCO has been providing leading-edge engineering, science and advanced technology solutions to governments and private industries worldwide.

ENSCO prides itself in creating and applying advanced technologies for mission success. We provide systems engineering, integration, and advanced technology services to transform the future safety, security, and resiliency of critical missions on the ground, in the air, in space, and in the information systems that connect these domains.

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Position Description

 

Job description
ENSCO Inc. is a diverse engineering and technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions supporting mission success, safety, and security for government and commercial customers worldwide.

We are seeking an Operations Planner to work directly with Government mission leaders responsible for generating, presenting, and sustaining forces for competition, crisis, and conflict in a contested space environment. The position turns strategic intent, evolving threats, supported-command demand, and operational feedback into executable campaign plans, force-readiness priorities, decision packages, and fielding actions.

The planner will connect current operations to future capability decisions by integrating mission planning, operational intelligence, cyber defense, training, logistics, infrastructure, continuity, and transition considerations. The focus is decision velocity: expose operational risk early, define measurable knowledge points, preserve viable options, and accelerate mission-ready capability while Government decision owners retain all formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• Translate intent into planning products. Draft objectives, tasks, milestones, measures, decision points, risk statements, execution matrices, and briefing content that move strategic priorities into coordinated action.
• Support force readiness and presentation. Integrate mission demand, threat updates, personnel, training, equipment, logistics, and resource data to identify readiness gaps, preparation priorities, and force-package risks.
• Maintain campaign integration. Coordinate inputs across operations, intelligence, cyber, communications, logistics, training, infrastructure, security, and partner teams; track dependencies and surface conflicts early.
• Advance mission resilience. Develop and update continuity products, Primary/Alternate/Contingency/Emergency options, essential-service dependencies, infrastructure risks, and reconstitution actions for mission-critical operations.
• Turn feedback into action. Capture operational and exercise lessons, analyze deficiencies, update action and decision logs, and connect validated findings to training changes, capability outcomes, learning events, and early-fielding priorities.
• Build concepts and exercises. Draft concepts of employment, mission threads, exercise objectives, scenarios, evaluation criteria, and after-action products aligned to evolving threats and joint or combined operations.
• Produce decision-ready analysis. Develop option summaries, readiness dashboards, schedule and resource views, risk assessments, and concise recommendations centered on mission effect, time-to-field, integration complexity, and operational sustainability.
• Run disciplined planning rhythms. Prepare agendas and read-aheads, support planning events, capture decisions, assign and track actions, maintain version control, and keep products aligned to Government priorities and schedules.
• Support rapid capability transition. Help define operational-use objectives, user feedback plans, acceptance evidence, training and infrastructure needs, and transition actions for new or improved mission capabilities.
• Grow professional judgment. Seek feedback, challenge assumptions with evidence, communicate emerging risk early, and take increasing ownership of complex work under senior planner direction.

Qualifications Required
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in operations research, national security studies, military strategy, aerospace studies, political science, intelligence studies, emergency management, logistics, business, engineering, data analytics, or a closely related discipline, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience; equivalent applied experience may be considered where contract and grade requirements permit.
• Relevant experience in operational planning, mission operations, readiness, exercises, logistics, intelligence, cyber operations, continuity, emergency management, or a comparable defense or national-security environment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own a defined planning workstream, integrate multiple stakeholder inputs, maintain accurate planning artifacts, and deliver coordinated products on schedule.
• Ability to research complex mission topics, identify operational gaps and dependencies, analyze data, and develop clear findings and recommended actions under senior planner direction.
• U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Secret security clearance at time of hire.
• Working knowledge of operational planning, campaign design, force readiness, force generation, joint or combined operations, and execution in a contested environment.
• Ability to integrate operational, intelligence, cyber, communications, logistics, training, infrastructure, sustainment, and continuity inputs into coherent planning products.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into lines of effort, measurable outcomes, decision points, milestones, risk views, and executable actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft concise plans, decision papers, briefings, and action-focused meeting products for Government leaders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven hybrid environment and coordinate across Government, operational, acquisition, technical, security, and industry stakeholders.
• AN ACTIVE DOD SECURITY CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION FOR WHICH, YOU MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Qualifications Desired
• Experience with space mission operations, space control, command and control, satellite operations, mission management, or another high-consequence contested-domain mission.
• Experience supporting a service component, combatant-command mission, joint task force, combined force, or comparable operational headquarters.
• Experience with deliberate or crisis-action planning, exercise design, readiness reporting, force presentation, mission-type orders, or concept-of-employment development.
• Experience with continuity of operations, mission assurance, Primary/Alternate/Contingency/Emergency planning, critical-infrastructure resilience, or operational reconstitution.
• Exposure to rapid capability maturation, competitive prototyping, operational acceptance, early fielding, portfolio trade-space decisions, or transition from demonstrated capability to sustained operations.
• Experience using data visualization, readiness measures, portfolio scorecards, digital planning tools, modeling, or analytic methods to improve decision speed and quality.
• Professional military education, joint planning education, or credentials in operational art, campaign planning, emergency management, project delivery, or acquisition management.
• Experience preparing staff products such as plans, annexes, execution matrices, decision logs, action trackers, read-aheads, briefings, or after-action reports.
• Experience supporting an operational exercise, readiness assessment, mission rehearsal, fielding event, or continuity validation event.
• Current Top Secret or TS/SCI eligibility.

Required Certifications: None
U.S. Citizenship Required: Yes
Security Clearance Required: Secret
Employment Type: Regular Full-time
Background Check Type: 7 Year Pre-Employment
Drug Screen Required: None
Position Contingent Upon Contract Award: Yes

 
 
 
 

 

Salary Range

$91,000 - $121,000 USD

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Benefits

At ENSCO, a positive working environment and a competitive salary are only part of the reason for choosing a career here. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that creates a stimulating and supportive environment where you can thrive - visit ensco.com/careers/benefits to learn more.

Export Control and Licensing

This position may involve access to technology or technical data that is controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations and the release of which to a non US person may require an export license from the U.S. Government.

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