Senior Operational Readiness, Activation & Transition (ORAT) Specialist - Contingent Opportunity

• Contribute to the planning, mobilization, and execution of ORAT programs across the project lifecycle, supporting or leading assigned workstreams as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, trackers, deliverable inputs, and coordination materials for assigned ORAT activities.
• Support stakeholder engagement and operational interface planning and build effective working relationships with clients, operators, airlines and tenants, designers, contractors, vendors, regulators, and other project partners.
• Gather, validate, and document operational requirements and contribute to Concepts of Operations, procedures, transition plans, responsibility matrices, and opening strategies.
• Support or coordinate Familiarization, Induction and Training activities, including needs assessments, content development, logistics, delivery, and completion tracking.
• Support or lead, as appropriate to grade and assignment, tabletop exercises, operational trials, simulations, and readiness evaluations, including scripts, logistics, observations, findings, and follow-up actions.
• Track ORAT dependencies and interfaces with design, construction, testing and commissioning, systems integration, turnover, permitting, and operational milestones.
• Maintain readiness controls and collaboration tools, including risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, actions, decisions, dashboards, evidence, and SharePoint content.
• Prepare clear status reports, dashboards, presentations, meeting materials, and recommendations for project teams and client review.
• Facilitate or support working sessions and project meetings; document decisions, owners, due dates, constraints, and required escalations.
• Manage assigned tasks and workflows to agreed scope, schedule, quality, and documentation standards and promptly communicate risks or blockers.
• Contribute to quality reviews, lessons learned, project closeout, and transition-to-service activities.
• Provide coordination, mentoring, or guidance to junior staff and project team members when assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in aviation management, Engineering, Construction Management, Operations Management, Planning, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience consistent with the applicable job grade.
• Experience contributing to ORAT, activation, airport or facility operations, construction, commissioning, training, trials, stakeholder engagement, project controls, or other complex capital-program delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate assigned ORAT activities and contribute to workstream delivery, with the capability to independently lead defined workstreams such as operational trials, organizational readiness, or Familiarization, Induction and Training activities as experience and assignment require.
• Experience coordinating stakeholders, facilitating or supporting meetings, and producing accurate, client-ready documentation.
• Working knowledge of facility or airport operations and the relationships among design, construction, testing and commissioning, turnover, and operational readiness.
• Ability to read project schedules, identify operational dependencies, monitor milestones, and escalate emerging conflicts.
• Experience contributing to operational plans, procedures, Concepts of Operations, training materials, trial documentation, or transition plans.
• Ability to support or coordinate training, tabletop exercises, operational trials, simulations, and follow-up action closure.
• Familiarity with risk, issue, action, decision, change, and quality-management practices.
• Availability to travel to project sites frequently.
• Core skills:
• Clear written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication appropriate to project-team and client environments.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with clients, operators, designers, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint; experience with scheduling, dashboard, risk, or project-management platforms is preferred.
• Ability to travel frequently and work on-site or variable hours when required for trials, transitions, or facility openings.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Exposure to aviation operations or a major facility opening, and progress toward a relevant aviation, project management, or ORAT credential.