Advisor, Senior (MPTE)

This program provides readiness and sustainment support to improve operational availability and mission effectiveness while controlling cost and optimizing constrained resources. Uses collaborative, data-driven operating models that include end-to-end readiness ecosystems (operations, maintenance, engineering, supply chain, manpower/training, and financial management). AI-enabled approaches are a desired element of the solution to improve the speed, scale, and consistency of analysis and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Develop the strategic direction, vision, and mission for the program.
• Provide insight and advice concerning strategic direction and applicability of up-to-date, industry-standard practices.
• Develop high-level vision with the program/project manager and senior client leadership to influence objectives of complex efforts.
• Serve as a senior advisor to the Government and provide support to the customer on program/project operations.
• Determine the adequacy and acceptability of evolving program/project plans and change management strategies, and mold processes and operations to improve the customer business methodology.
• Apply knowledge of business management principles, organizational structures, and information management techniques to formulate long- and short-term management plans designed to achieve the outcomes desired by the organization.
• Analyze in-place business, operational, and financial processes and management relationships.
• Identify and recommend programmatic approaches to re-define, plan, organize, design, develop, and modify current practices and processes.
• Develop program/project plans, guidelines, and controls.
• Perform tasks that require both practical experience and theoretical, state-of-the-art, technical knowledge in a specialty area.
• Work includes producing readiness assessments and decision-support products; establishing and maintaining consistent readiness metrics and reporting; and integrating data from multiple authoritative and legacy sources to deliver actionable analytics and dashboards.
• Use advanced analytics and, where appropriate, AI/ML techniques (e.g., forecasting, anomaly detection, natural language processing of maintenance narratives) to identify readiness drivers and constraints, improve predictive analytics, and inform trade-space decisions that balance near-term readiness with longer-term capability objectives, including Fleet legacy platform/systems sustainment and modernization transitions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, physics, operations research, statistics, or engineering from an accredited college or university, or equivalent specialized experience. Allowable substitution: Six years of additional related work experience.
• Fifteen (15) years of related experience, of which twelve (12) years must be direct experience in the following concentration area: MPTE (Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Education).
• Prior military experience as a Commissioned Officer and/or senior-level DoD government experience (GS14-15, O5-O6) may be considered favorably.
• Must have an active DoD Secret Clearance or higher.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Location: Norfolk, Virginia