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Ground Mission Coordinator
Company Overview
Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects as-a-service across Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, Digital & Synthetic domains via its capability groups. Metrea also consists of six support groups (Operations, People, Finance, Legal, Strategy and Solutions) that guide the development of specific capabilities that Metrea's Files (product, projects, programs etc.) leverage to achieve their targets.
Group Overview
Special Air Missions Group (SAM) is responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Special Mobility, and Aerial Firefighting (AFF) capabilities. SAM oversees the integration of new mission systems, ensuring operational readiness across specialized aviation operations. It manages fleet maintenance, regulatory compliance, and strategic partnerships to enhance mission effectiveness. By consolidating expertise and infrastructure, SAM ensures Metrea’s airborne capabilities remain adaptable and mission-ready across dynamic operational environments.
Position Summary
This position is contingent upon contract award.
The Ground Mission Coordinator (GMC) is the primary ground-based integrator for manned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions supporting U.S. border protection operations. The GMC synchronizes aircrew execution with customer priorities, tasking authorities, airspace requirements, and operational constraints to ensure safe, compliant, and effective mission outcomes. This role maintains real-time mission situational awareness, manages dynamic re-tasking, coordinates communications and information flow between air and ground stakeholders, and ensures accurate mission documentation and reporting in accordance with contract requirements, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and applicable federal regulations.
The GMC operates within a 24/7 mission environment and routinely interfaces with flight crews, site operations leadership, maintenance, liaison officers, and government/customer representatives. The position is responsible for proactive risk management, deconfliction, continuity of operations during contingencies, and preservation of operational security (OPSEC) and sensitive information handling
Role and Responsibilities
- Serve as the ground-based mission command-and-control focal point for active manned ISR sorties supporting government/customer objectives.
- Translate customer priorities and tasking into executable mission plans; coordinate pre-mission brief content and mission products as required by contract.
- Maintain continuous situational awareness of aircraft status, sensor coverage, airspace restrictions, weather impacts, fuel/endurance, comms availability, and evolving operational constraints.
- Coordinate real-time re-tasking, target/area-of-interest updates, and collection priority shifts while ensuring aircrew workload, safety, and regulatory compliance are maintained.
- Manage and deconflict communications pathways (voice/data/chat) among aircrew, operations center personnel, customer representatives, and other mission partners, ensuring accurate and timely information flow.
- Ensure adherence to SOPs, Rules of Engagement/Use (as contractually defined), privacy/civil liberties protections, and data-handling requirements for sensitive operational information.
- Coordinate contingency actions (lost comm, divert/abort, sensor outage, emergency response support, maintenance issues) and document mission impacts and decisions.
- Track mission metrics and deliverables (sortie timelines, coverage, priority task completion, anomalies) and generate required reports, logs, and after-action summaries.
- Maintain accurate mission logs, reports, records and ensure timely submission of contract deliverables, including shift handover notes and continuity logs.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), training, and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) processes.
Skills and Experience
Required:
- Education: High School Diploma or GED
- 5+ years of ISR Aviation experience in mission coordination, intelligence operations, as a manned Airborne Sensor Operator, or a related field.
- 2+ years of ISR Aviation experience in multi-crewed platforms
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite programs
- Skilled in the use of tactical military radios, internet relay chat programs, flight-following software, and airborne EO/IR sensor manipulation
- Experience with theater specific Special Instructions (SPINs), Rules of Engagement (ROE), and Special Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Intelligence or Security Studies, Information Systems, or a related discipline).
- 3+ years of prior deployment rotation experience.
- Special Operations (SOF) Background.
- Previous SOF ISR Liaison Officer (LNO).
- Previous SOF ISR Tactical Controller (ITC).
- Previous Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Tactical Systems Operator (TSO).
- Previous COCO Manned-Airborne Sensor Operator (ASO).
- Held or currently holds a U.S. Air Force 1A8X2 AFSC.
- Previous Mode 1 and 3 certifications.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Ability to meet program training, DoD medical examination requirements for deployment, any additional pre-deployment contractual requirements, and ability to maintain deployable status.
- Must be able to accomplish all duties with little or no assistance.
- Must have good command of the English language, oral and written.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
Our Firmware
Metrea’s single core value, “rooted in humility,” is supported by four key attributes: entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning, and over-deliver. These attributes, combined, form our Teammate Firmware, and our culture. We explore these attributes during the hiring process when we grow our teams and continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for.
Benefits
Medical insurance options
Dental and vision insurance
Retirement plan eligibility
Parental leave
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
- Employee must be a US citizen and not hold dual citizenship with another country.
- Employee must be able to hold and maintain a Top Secret (or higher) Security Clearance.
- Current U.S. Passport with 6 months’ validity required.
- Current U.S. Driver’s License required.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea Special Aerospace, ISR Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with daily working hours for this position varying Monday through Sunday while deployed. Hours and work shifts may vary in accordance with business needs. You will be scheduled to forward deploy/work approximately 60-90 days CONUS/OCONUS followed by rotation off-site for approximately 60-90 days. Rotation schedules might be adjusted to meet program requirements.
Work Location
CONUS, OCONUS, Remote
Work Environment
This position is primarily a CONUS/OCONUS deployed position, though some remote work may be required while not deployed. During deployment, employees may be living under field conditions and must be able to work with little supervision in austere or arduous environments. The work environment varies based on applicable contract requirements.
Travel
50-65% to CONUS and OCONUS locations.
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