{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-AO-2203",
        "slug": "lunar-surface-operations-planner",
        "title": "Lunar Surface Operations Planner",
        "division": "aerospace",
        "region": "off-world",
        "level": "principal",
        "location": "Houston, TX · Program 014",
        "site": "Mission planning · secure",
        "clearance": "TS · Space access",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site",
        "travel": "Occasional — consortium partners",
        "reports_to": "Program Manager, Program 014",
        "featured": false,
        "summary": "Plan surface activity for habitat support and autonomous logistics at Mare Tranquillitatis, where the constraints are power, thermal, dust, and the fact that nobody is coming to help. The planner owns the sequence that the crewed and uncrewed elements both execute against.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Build and maintain the surface activity plan across autonomous transport, habitat support, and survey elements.",
            "Model power, thermal, and consumable margins for each planned sequence and defend the margins you set.",
            "Coordinate with consortium partners whose assets share the site.",
            "Run contingency planning for loss of an element, and keep those contingencies rehearsed rather than filed.",
            "Debrief every executed sequence and fold the result into the next plan."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Twelve or more years in mission planning, flight operations, or an equivalent operational planning discipline.",
            "Demonstrated ownership of an operational plan whose failure had real consequences.",
            "Fluency in resource-constrained scheduling and in the tooling that supports it.",
            "The judgement to distinguish a margin from a hope.",
            "Eligibility for sponsored TS vetting and space-access approval."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Prior surface or extravehicular operations planning experience.",
            "Familiarity with regolith environment effects on mechanisms and thermal systems.",
            "Experience operating alongside partner agencies under a shared plan."
        ],
        "team": "Program 014 is a standing programme with its own planning cell, operations floor, and engineering support. It has been continuously active long enough that institutional memory is a real asset here.",
        "notes": "Programme detail is disclosed progressively as vetting and access approvals complete.",
        "division_label": "Aerospace & Off-World",
        "region_label": "Off-world",
        "level_label": "Principal",
        "url": "role.php?job=lunar-surface-operations-planner",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Lunar%20Surface%20Operations%20Planner%20%28ON-AO-2203%29"
    }
}