Role and Responsibilities

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

Summary

Command and Control Subject Matter Expert will be the resident subject matter expert (SME) for exercises hosted or supported by the Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) at Kirtland AFB, NM. The SME will support C2 mission planning, test development, testing, scenario development and event execution. Additionally, the SME will assist with the management and administration of supporting systems ensuring there functionality prior each event.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Brings credible expertise to C2 mission areas for white force integration, operation of high-side environment generators, and operations of live, virtual, constructive (LVC) systems identified in the government directions document. The individual will support and participate in scenario review to ensure desired exercise learning objectives are achievable. It is desirable for the SME to be conversant with Air Operations Center activities.
• Plays key role in exercise development and scenario generation for weapon systems, integrating C2 into all operations
• Coordinates with mission SMEs for force generation deconfliction and scenario packaging requirements
• Supports and assists with the management and development of exercise documents ranging from: Air Tasking Orders, Air Coordination Orders, coordination cards, communication cards, Master Scenario Event List (MSEL), SPINS, aircraft SCLS, etc.
• Responsible for supporting the development and integration of new Missions and Systems capabilities by defining technical requirements, writing requirement documents, reviewing design specifications, writing acceptance test plans, and executing acceptance tests
• Responsible for determining C2 scenario training requirements and designing vignettes to support C2 training operations
• Serves as the DMOC’s Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Airborne C2
• Preferred platforms: E-3, E-2, P-8 or CRC SME for major theater level Distributed Mission Operations in a Live, Virtual and Constructive synthetic environment
• Serves as lead for Airborne scenario development, technical solutions sets and integration across other mission threads
• Provides liaison functions between command-and-control Teams and the 705 CTS Exercise Directors for appropriate hosting within the battlespace and throughout the exercise development and execution process
• Provides technical interchange between operational warfighter training requirements and technical solutions for the Distributed Mission Operations Center.
• Facilitates coordination between government, engineering and operational personnel, ensuring proper requirements are communicated, designed and implemented within contract specification
• Maintains technical relevance within their area of expertise, supports multiple mission sets
• Ensure a safe and secure work environment maintained

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years relevant operational experience or related experience

Or equivalent combination of education and related operational experience

• Military service experience conducting C2ISR mission skill sets
• Must be able to obtain a U.S. “Secret” security clearance
• Must possess a dynamic and flexible understanding of problem solving
• Must be comfortable with a flexible work schedule often required during mission execution periods
• Must be comfortable with briefing
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Comprehensive understanding of the Department of Defense’s requirements for DMO within current military operations
• DMO experience working with Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) assets
• Conversant with computer generated forces, the build process and environment generators

Language Skills

• Must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.

Reasoning ability

• Must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• An ability to interpret complex customer requirements and attitudes from verbal, non-verbal, and written communication is desirable.

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines
• Ability to operate personal computer and communicate via telephone
• Domestic and international travel as required
• Must be able to distinguish colors

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Position Type

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.