Operational Planner and Fires Subject Matter Expert

Location: Mac Dill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida

Work Arrangement: On-site

Employment Type: Full-time, exempt

Travel: CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required

Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required

Company: Kinetic Concepts, LLC

Location: Mac Dill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida

Work Arrangement: On-site

Employment Type: Full-time, exempt

Travel: CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required

Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required

Kinetic Concepts, LLC is seeking an experienced Operational Planner and Fires Subject Matter Expert to support the United States Special Operations Command J37 Joint Task Force Modernization organization at Mac Dill Air Force Base.

The selected candidate will provide operational planning support at the combatant command headquarters level and serve as a subject matter expert in joint fires integration and targeting. This position supports Special Operations Forces concept development, experimentation, modernization, and capability integration.

The successful candidate must be able to plan at the strategic and operational levels, translate Theater Special Operations Command and Service component requirements into staff products and capability recommendations, and work independently across command, component, Joint Staff, program office, interagency, and industry organizations.

• Support operational planning efforts at a four-star combatant command headquarters.
• Apply the Joint Planning Process to modernization, experimentation, and capability-integration initiatives.
• Develop concepts of operation, planning and execution orders, annexes, fragmentary orders, decision papers, and senior-leader briefings.
• Analyze, consolidate, and represent Theater Special Operations Command and Service component requirements.
• Coordinate across command staff directorates, TSOCs, Service components, the Joint Staff, program executive offices, interagency partners, and industry.
• Support operational planning teams, conferences, working groups, wargames, exercises, and technology demonstrations.
• Develop planning timelines, synchronization matrices, running estimates, and capability-gap analyses.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in joint fires integration, fire support, precision strike, long-range fires, targeting, and associated effects.
• Advise on the joint targeting cycle, including target development, target-list management, weaponeering considerations, and combat assessment.
• Support the integration of fires capabilities with command-and-control, communications, and tactical data-link architectures.
• Evaluate emerging fires, targeting, and over-the-horizon capabilities for potential application to validated SOF requirements.
• Review capability and concept documentation, including Capability Development Documents and concepts of operation.
• Prepare white papers, technical assessments, after-action analyses, trip reports, and recurring activity reports.
• Brief findings and recommendations to senior military and civilian leaders.
• Handle classified and sensitive information in accordance with applicable security requirements.

• Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Ability to maintain the required clearance throughout employment.
• At least 10 years of military, Special Operations Forces, or Department of War operational experience.
• At least five years of operational planning experience on a joint, combatant command, component, or Service-level staff.
• Experience serving at the O-4, senior noncommissioned officer, or equivalent civilian level.
• Demonstrated experience planning at a four-star combatant command headquarters.
• Experience applying the Joint Planning Process and developing orders and staff products for general officer or senior executive decisions.
• Working knowledge of TSOC and Service component organizations, missions, and requirements processes.
• Experience in joint fires, fire support, or targeting, including the joint targeting cycle and integration of fires into operational plans and orders.
• Ability to coordinate across staff directorates, military components, program offices, interagency organizations, and industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to produce staff-quality written products and brief senior military and civilian audiences.
• Proficiency with government office productivity and collaboration tools.
• Ability to work across NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS environments at…