DoN Mid Program Analyst

ELS is an employee-owned small business that provides professional and engineering support services to the U.S. Navy. We pride ourselves, as employee owners, in delivering high quality products to our customers across different platforms, systems and equipment. For over 40 years our focus has been to hire, develop and retain a highly-qualified staff of professionals that work collaboratively to provide exceptional support and solutions to our customers. We are caring, results driven, and strive to provide a meaningful work experience.
Description:
Provides technical and analytical support within multiple disciplines including system infrastructure operations of administration, analysis, engineering, and design. The Program Analyst will analyze and evaluate major system project parameters and requirements.
As a member of the Warfare Systems Certification Support Team, provide support to execute the Naval Warfare Systems Certification Policy and support the development and deployment of warfare systems throughout the life cycle of approximately 150 U.S. Navy Surface. This includes providing annual support for the assessment of warfare systems in approximately 75 Navy Surface Ships through approximately 100 Warfare Systems Certification (WSCERT) Events in order to provide COMUSFLTFORCOM and COMPACFLT with Warfare Systems Certification Plans, early assessments of risk and characterization of maturity and readiness to support Risk Assessments for ships in new construction after sail-away and post shakedown availabilities and certification decisions to support the subject ship(s) throughout deployment.
Certification Analysts:

• Development Meeting agendas and reports;
• Development Data-Calls in preparation for WSCERT events;
• Development of monthly Panel Briefings, Naval Messages, and Memorandum for the Record;
• Provides analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of complex, inter-linked systems.

Required skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, or related field technical field; or five (5) or more years of experience with and knowledge of Navy Combat Systems engineering and certification.
• Highly motivated individual capable of working independently and/or in teams with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Ability collect, analyze and synthesize, information from several different sources.
• Understanding of Navy Ships/Strike Group Combat and Warfare Systems and/or understanding of Department of Defense. Experience with NAVSEA is a plus.
• Must have active DoD Secret security clearance and be able to maintain one.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in a Navy shipboard technical rating is a plus but not required.