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Job Title: Lead Console Operator
Job Code: 39955
Job Location: Oklahoma City, OK (Onsite)
Schedule: 5/8
Job Description:
The Lead Console Operator is the site lead operator within the Site ATD CLS team and serves as the primary focal point between the Training Systems Support Center (TSSC), FTU/SOS instructors, schedulers, ATD technicians, and console operators supporting OA-1K aircrew training devices. This role functions as the main point of contact within the simulator complex for end users and training stakeholders, ensures daily device availability, and is responsible for safe and effective execution of training events, scheduling coordination, configuration control, status reporting, and timely coordination of discrepancies, software/cyber updates, and training impacts. The Lead Console Operator also helps maintain operator continuity products, supports scenario and event setup, and provides day-to-day leadership and direct supervision for simulator personnel supporting console and ATD maintenance operations. This position directly supports formal training objectives and contractor requirements to maintain the OA-1K training device availability rate at 90% of the time for 18 hours per day, 240 days per year, based on materiel condition and the OA-1K Training Device MESL.
Essential Functions:
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Must have an active DoD Secret clearance, active TS/SCI clearance, or the ability to obtain and maintain the required clearance.
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Willingness and ability to work onsite and support schedule adjustments, occasional weekend operations, or shift coverage as required.
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Willingness and ability to travel as required for installation, checkout, training, or program supp
Training Device Operations and Training Support:
- Operate OA-1K WSTs, MSDTs, and associated instructor/operator stations to support formal training, mission rehearsal, and courseware events.
- Configure, start up, shut down, and reset training devices; load events; execute freeze/reset/reposition procedures; and restore systems following training events.
- Coordinate daily training support with FTU/SOS instructors, Pilot/CSO users, schedulers, students, and site technicians to maximize training throughput.
- Prepare and execute training events in coordination with instructors, including scenario setup, event initialization, brief/debrief support, and post-event reset.
- Support training devices replicating OA-1K pilot and Combat Systems Officer stations and representative mission-system interfaces including Harvester, Garmin G3000, Automatic Flight Control System, Moog Stores Management System, WESCAM MX-15/MX-20 sensor pods, radios, cockpit displays, touchscreen controllers, HOTAS controls, side-stick controller, and keyboard interfaces.
Site Lead and Customer Coordination:
- Serve as the lead operator, primary local interface between the site team, TSSC, and FTU/SOS, and main simulator-complex point of contact for end users, console operations, status updates, and training impacts.
- Provide local inputs supporting operational availability metrics, discrepancy tracking, master data repositories, and configuration/status reporting.
- Monitor, document, and communicate device uptime and downtime in support of the training device availability rate formula: Uptime / (Uptime + Downtime) x 100.
- Brief site leadership and program stakeholders on device status, open discrepancies, schedule impacts, and readiness risks.
- Manage overall simulator usage scheduling and coordinate priorities, device allocation, and support coverage with instructors, schedulers, and site leadership.
- Direct day-to-day tasking, supervision, and coordination of simulator personnel, including console operators and ATD technicians, to support training operations and device readiness.
Configuration, Troubleshooting, and Readiness:
- Coordinate with configuration, software/cyber, systems/project engineers, and ATD technicians to support troubleshooting, retest actions, and return-to-service decisions.
- Assist with system checkout, acceptance activities, software loads, cyber/configuration updates, and concurrent changes that affect training availability.
- Support daily device readiness for systems expected to be mission capable 18 hours per day, 240 days per year.
- Validate operator procedures, checklists, and continuity products to support consistent console operations across shifts and personnel.
Scenario, Documentation, and Continuity:
- Support scenario/event setup, mission data loading, instructor requests, and post-event documentation.
- Maintain operator logs, discrepancy reports, turnover notes, readiness/status records, and training support documentation.
- Assist with development and refinement of operator guides, technical instructions, shift turnover products, and training support checklists.
Qualifications:
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Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
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Minimum 4 years of experience operating military training devices, simulators, ATDs, or mission systems in a training or operational environment.
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Minimum 2 years of experience in a lead operator, instructor, evaluator, or shift lead role supporting aircrew training, mission rehearsal, or simulator operations.
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Experience leading personnel, coordinating schedules, and managing day-to-day execution within a simulator, training, or maintenance environment.
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Must be a U.S. citizen.
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Active DoD Secret or TS/SCI security clearance, or ability to obtain and maintain.
Preferred Additional Skills:
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Current Security+ certification is preferred.
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Experience with OA-1K or comparable aircrew training systems, mission simulators, or formal training unit operations.
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Experience with scenario generation tools, computer-generated forces, image generators, sensor emulators, digital learning platforms, or mission-system integration.
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Experience developing courseware support materials, operator guides, technical checklists, continuity binders, or training event support products.
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Familiarity with simulation and training software such as VR Forces, VR Vantage, and MACE is preferred.
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Strong understanding of simulator readiness reporting, discrepancy management, and coordination with engineering and maintenance stakeholders.
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Proven ability to lead day-to-day console operations while communicating effectively with instructors, students, engineers, and program leadership.
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Demonstrated supervisory, scheduling, and customer-coordination skills in a simulator complex, training center, or comparable operational environment.
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Ability to work effectively with program leadership, customer representatives, instructors, evaluators, and simulator support teams.
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Prior USAF, AFSOC, or other military aircrew/simulator operations experience is preferred.
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