Portfolio Manager, Test & Evaluation

Job Summary: 

ITS, LLC. is seeking a Test and Evaluation Portfolio Manager to work with our team in Colorado Springs, CO. An active TS/SCI clearance (or TS with SCI Eligibility) is required. The selected candidate will support the United States Space Force Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) Headquarters.

This position requires experience in the acquisition lifecycle and multiple phases of the test and evaluation process. The Test and Evaluation Portfolio Manager will have experience creating, evaluating, and reviewing test plans in the areas of developmental testing, operational testing, and live-fire testing, particularly in testing space systems. They will also have experience with portfolio and/or program management. Experience evaluating both small subsystem test results and major system program results is highly desired. In addition, the Test and Evaluation Portfolio Manager should have familiarity with major DoD acquisition programs as part of the Air Force acquisition process. 

Key Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assist in the planning, coordination, execution, and reviewing of space systems tests & experiments.
• Provide input into the design, development, and execution of advanced test/experimentation programs and processes to conduct assessment of space systems.
• Review, edit, and improve test engineering documentation to include test plans, Test Information Sheets, Safety Packages, Data Analysis, Management Plans, Technical and Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test/Analysis Reports, as required.
• Review analysis on pre-test predictions, including those obtained through M&S, to design test events and profiles, define data collection requirements, and develop go/no-go criteria to meet test objectives.
• Collaborate with and support the test teams and products produced following their reviews of systems, sub-systems, and components to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real-time and post-mission data processing, evaluation, and analysis to meet test/experimentation objectives.
• Review, improve, and support test teams with their data analysis requests, providing input regarding their requests for process data, data quality control reviews and anomaly resolutions, and their data analysis as per the data analysis plan.
• Evaluate and review simulation efforts to predict or evaluate system effectiveness or suitability under relevant operational conditions and scenarios.
• Provide oversight and assist test teams to ensure pre-test, during-test, and post-test execution activities, schedules, and resources are identified and available to meet customer specifications and performance expectations.
• Develop and maintain summary information capturing all major test and evaluation activities and resource requirements across STARCOM T&E portfolio,
• Identify and deconflict scheduling and resourcing concerns, where necessary
• Review and improve Test Reports/Presentations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10 years of test project management (test manager or test analyst)
• 10+ years of demonstrated systems engineering and program/portfolio management experience with space, ground, operations, and sustainment segments of DoD
• Experience with multiple (5+) space systems
• A detailed understanding of test, evaluation, and experimentation functions and how they relate to space operations at the tactical level, or of operations such as exercises, plans, coordination, demonstrations, such as space flag and other related war gaming events.
• Comfortable with methodologies including modeling and simulation, laboratory testing, open-air testing, and live-fire testing and supporting skills such as modeling and simulation, system decomposition, design of experiments and response surface methodologies, regression testing, and validation of models and simulations.
• Team mentality to provide integrated engineering/analysis support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card prep, disciplined test execution, and collaborative authorship of post flight reports.
• Willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customer requirements and needs.
• Aptitude and patience to process and analyze complex system test/experimentation data.
• Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: Space-related data communications, EO/IR/RF Sensors, Space system Architectures, Space Battle Management and Control
• Experience with portfolio and/or project management

Clearance Requirement:

• An ac