Logistics and Maritime Planner
About The Position
As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As a Logistics and Maritime Planner, you’ll bring your logistics, maritime, and exercise expertise to support the client’s exercise and Global Force Management planning, providing continuity for participation in major 2, 3, and 4-star service, joint, and combined exercises. As a dedicated logistics and maritime planner, you will use your skills and expertise to research, develop, analyze, assess, plan, and support client exercise planning, providing continuity, expertise, and dedicated focus to enhance their capacity to c ond uct high-quality planning for major exercises, including Cold Response, Navy Large Scale Exercise, Distributed Aviation Operations exercises, and Atlantic Alliance. You will effectively manage planning and coordination requirements for all assigned exercises.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in USMC or DoD logistics, maritime, and exercise planning, including wargames and exercises, developing military orders, concepts of operations, POA & Ms, and operational plans
- Experience on a Marine Corps General Officer Staff
- Experience with the MCPP, Joint Planning Process, or Navy Planning Process and the DoD, Service, MEF, and command-level policies , plans, procedures, actions, and milestones necessary for efficient planning, development, and analyses of major exercises
- Experience working closely with exercise action officers, coordinating across staff functions and command echelons, and providing support to ELC event planning efforts
- Knowledge of Marine Corps logistics operations and maritime pre-positioned forces
- Ability to brief senior-level customers, including general and flag officers
- Ability to present and effectively advocate client equities at planning conferences, OPTs, and WGs
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- TS / SCI clearance
- Bachelor's degree
Nice To Haves
- Experience with USMC or DoD logistics
- Master's degree
- Completion of Joint Professional Military Education Phase 1 and 2
- Graduate of a School of Advanced Warfighting ( SAW ) , Army School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) , or Joint or Service equivalent
Responsibilities
- Developing and executing detailed exercise plans of actions and milestones ( POA & Ms )
- Identifying required resources
- Providing mitigation recommendations for resource shortfalls
- Delivering status updates
- Briefing senior leaders
- Leading operational planning teams ( OPTs ) or working groups ( WGs )
- Developing exercise briefs and other information products
- Transitioning plans to major subordinate elements
- Forecasting, coordinating, and synchronizing exercise planning requirements with resource requirements via SharePoint, Teams, and other systems.
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
- recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
