Senior Operations Planner

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

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 Senior 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
 · Lead integrated campaign planning. Turn commander-level intent and mission priorities into operational approaches, lines of effort, objectives, tasks, measures, decision points, and synchronized execution rhythms for competition, crisis, and conflict.
 · Generate and present ready forces. Translate supported-command demand and threat intelligence into force-generation priorities, mission-specific preparation, tailored force packages, readiness actions, resource trade-offs, and risk recommendations. 
· Synchronize joint and combined operations. Integrate mission planning, operational intelligence, cyber effects and defense, communications, logistics, training, protection, and partner contributions to create an operational edge. 
· Build resilient mission execution. Develop and validate continuity concepts, Primary/Alternate/Contingency/Emergency options, critical-service dependencies, infrastructure hardening priorities, reconstitution approaches, and mission-assurance actions. 
· Connect operations to capability decisions. Convert operational deficiencies and lessons into prioritized capability outcomes, acquisition decision inputs, focused learning events, early-use objectives, operational-acceptance criteria, and fielding priorities.
 · Shape concepts and training. Advance concepts of employment, mission-type orders, tactics, training objectives, and exercise scenarios that reflect current threats, large-scale operations, and joint or combined mission threads.
 · Drive evidence-backed decisions. Create decision papers, option analyses, risk and opportunity views, readiness scorecards, event roadmaps, and concise leader briefings centered on mission effect, time-to-field, integration complexity, and operational sustainability.
 ·  Maintain a continuous learning loop. Capture exercise and operational feedback, assign action owners, measure outcomes, challenge unsupported assumptions, and move validated insights into planning, training, resourcing, and capability delivery. 
· Lead cross-functional planning events. Set agendas, frame decisions, facilitate working groups and planning teams, resolve dependencies, document decisions, and maintain accountability through the next mission or fielding milestone. 
· Develop the planning team. Review products, coach less-experienced planners, establish clear quality standards, and model disciplined initiative in a high-tempo mission environment. 
· Synchronize empowered stakeholders. Drive a high-tempo decision cadence across acquisition, contracting, finance, operations, intelligence, communications, engineering, test, cybersecurity, logistics, and industry participants.
 · Lead through execution. Surface blockers early, assign evidence and action owners, challenge unsupported assumptions, mentor technical contributors, and maintain accountability through the next Government decision and transition milestone.

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 7 years of relevant professional experience; equivalent applied experience may be considered where contract and grade requirements permit.
 · Demonstrated experience independently leading operational, campaign, contingency, readiness, or force-generation planning for complex defense, intelligence, space, cyber, or mission operations. 
· Proven ability to lead cross-functional planning teams, frame high-consequence decisions, reconcile competing priorities, and deliver coordinated products on schedule with limited direction. 
· Experience turning operational deficiencies, lessons, and threat changes into prioritized actions, capability outcomes, learning events, acceptance criteria, or fielding recommendations. 
· 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 mentoring planners or leading an integrated planning team through major exercises, operational assessments, or capability-fielding events.
·         Current Top Secret or TS/SCI eligibility.
 
 

Work Location Type: On-Site
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

REAL ID Requirement

This position may require the ability to access to U.S. federal facilities. In accordance with the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement of the REAL ID Act, as of May 7, 2025, individuals must present a REAL ID-compliant form of identification or an acceptable alternative to gain entry. For a list of acceptable forms of identification, please click here.

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

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EEO Statement

ENSCO, Inc. and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers– veterans, disability