Nuclear Weapons Incident Response Specialist

Job ID 2610145

Location Fort Belvoir, VA, US

Date Posted 2026-03-11

Category Program Management

Subcategory Project Analyst

Schedule Full-Time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required Top_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None

Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Nuclear Weapons Incident Response Specialist to join our team supporting a dynamic customer. This person will assist with the Nuclear Weapons Accident Incident work groups and exercises as well as provide programmatic advice and assistance to the Exercise Division leadership. This position requires knowledge and experience working with Air Force and Navy nuclear weapons custodial units and their supporting incident response units. Must be very familiar with nuclear weapon incident response national policy and how the Interagency interacts and responds to a DoD nuclear weapon incident.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, planning, and executing full scale nuclear weapons emergency response exercises
• Organizing, coordinating, executing, and supporting meetings/working groups/conferences concerning exercise planning, evaluation testing, studies, and crisis support or emergency response pertaining to nuclear weapons operations to include pre/post-meeting administrative support
• Updating and maintaining accident/incident response website(s) and databases
• Assisting in the development, maintenance, execution, and presentation of the nuclear weapon accident incident response management courses
• Reviewing, validating, assessing, and assisting in the development of national and DoD nuclear weapon accident incident response policy and procedures
• Planning, organizing, coordinating, executing, and tracking multiple concurrent trainings, exercises, TTXs, workshops, seminars, meetings, and conferences
• Reviewing agreements, joint plans, and other documents at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of Command and Control
• Validating DoD and interagency policies, plans, and procedures through exercises
• Assessing DoD nuclear weapon incident response policy
• Overseeing implementation and effectiveness of nuclear weapon incident readiness through participation in and support of high-level interagency working groups and conferences
• Facilitating interagency communications and training to ensure cohesive, effective, and efficient emergency response to nuclear weapon accidents and incidents
• Providing instructors/facilitators with information and data to support inter/intra-agency training
• Assessing DoD nuclear weapon security policy
  
  

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; Masters and eight (8) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and five (5) years or more experience.
• Certification in the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• Strong Nuclear Incident background/experience and firm understanding of nuclear incident response policy
• Possess the skills to design, plan and execute full scale nuclear weapons exercises
• Understanding of the Joint Lessons Learned System and Joint Training System
• Experience producing technical reports and providing briefings to Senior leaders