Sonalysts, Inc. is seeking experienced facilitators and problem solvers with experience in submarine systems to support Navy undersea system projects. Candidates will support existing and future customer needs for concept development, requirements analysis, design, test and evaluation. Candidates must be able to leverage their experience to quickly come up to speed and help projects with creative thinking, event design, problem solving, decision-making skills, and event facilitation.

Who are we:

Sonalysts, Inc. is a small, 100% employee owned business (ESOP) which supports a very diverse set of customers. While the company was originally founded in 1973 with a focus on sonar analysis (hence the name) for the Navy, Sonalysts has since expanded into a variety of other Defense and Commercial spaces. With current contracts supporting the Navy, Air Force, and Army and many other customers, Sonalysts relies on the skills and knowledge of its employee owners to help solve the Department of Defense’s most challenging problems while providing the best benefit to our customers. Ranging from retired service members from all branches of the military, to professionals with a wide mix of different commercial and technical backgrounds, Sonalysts has a diverse and capable workforce. From software development, to operations analysis, engineering, wargaming, targeted knowledge elicitation, or large group facilitation – Sonalysts is capable of meeting any challenge.

By utilizing a small central corporate structure, coupled with a largely de-centralized approach to project management, Sonalysts is competitive with larger Defense Contractors while remaining agile and entrepreneurial at heart to provide rapid and innovative responses to customer requests. This allows our employee-owners to lead and support existing projects and to get involved with developing new business and winning new work. If you are looking for a way to use your technical or operational knowledge to support solving challenging problems for the military while being afforded the flexibility and empowerment of being a contractor or potential future leader in a small business, then Sonalysts may be the place for you.

What you will be doing:

• Participate on a team designing and executing facilitated workshops to compare and contrast technical capabilities for future submarine designs
• Use analytical and problem-solving skills to help inform government program decisions
• Support industry and/or government teams in the transition of concepts to prototypes to fleet release
• Design and execute innovation events to develop tactical guidance for future warfighting capabilities
• Leverage previous operational or engineering experience to support government engineering teams in the development of new technologies

What’s in it for you:

• Opportunity to challenge yourself intellectually
• Participate in the research and development of novel and cutting edge technology
• Ability to develop and execute facilitated workshops, wargames, and innovative events.
• Ability to advance and lead independent project teams
• Salary ranges between $80,000-$130,000, dependent on experience, qualifications and other relevant business criteria.
• Becoming an integral part of an innovative, employee-owned company, which provides a full range of benefits including paid vacation time, tuition reimbursement and targeted skills programs, health and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and 401(k) plan
• Ability to manage your own work schedule through the Flexible Hours Program

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in either:
• Design, development, execution and results analysis of wargames or facilitated events
• Design or operation of U.S. Navy submarine systems, or comparable experience with complex engineering systems
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, or an applied science
• Must be a U.S. citizen, eligible for a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) SECRET security clearance*

Preferred Experience/Qualifications:

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  Possessing an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance*
• Experience in professional wargaming or facilitated event design teams
• Experience in design thinking or similar innovation field (i.e., UX, systems thinking, Lean 6 Sigma, TRIZ, Strategic Foresight), which includes facilitating workshops or other events.
• Experience on an operational SSN/SSGN/SSBN
• Experience in solving complex problems
• Experience working with stakeholders and leadership to identify objectives and define a project vision.

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  Obtaining a U.S. Government security clearance involves a comprehensive background check. Candidates are eligible for a clearance if they have demonstrated sound financial management (including good credit) over time, are free of criminal records, have limited foreign contacts or ties, and other factors indicative of a position of trust to protect information sensitive to the U.S. Government.

Sonalysts is a Federal contractor subject to Executive Order 14042, Ensuring COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (the “EO”). All new employees will be required to present proof they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 on the first day of employment. If you receive and decide to accept an offer of employment, but you believe you are entitled to a medical or religious exemption under the specific conditions permitted by the EO, you will be required to notify us as soon as possible, and prior to the beginning of your employment, to start the interactive process and explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations Sonalysts may be able to offer and what effect, if any, these may have on your start date or your employment. Every new employee must meet the requirements of the EO on the first day of employment, either by proof of vaccination or prior approval by Sonalysts of an exemption.

This job is not available to residents of New York City because of local law restrictions there.

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