Cleared IT recruiting in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City is a sustainment market.
The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air Force Base performs depot maintenance on the Air Force's bombers, tankers and airborne early warning aircraft and on the Navy's E-6, the FAA's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center is the agency's training and logistics hub, and Boeing, Pratt and Whitney and a supplier base around Tinker modify aircraft and overhaul engines. Requisitions ask for engineers, systems administrators and support technicians with Secret eligibilities more often than for TS/SCI holders.
The market sits at the junction of Interstates 35, 40 and 44, and candidates commute from across the metro to the base on the southeast side. Fort Sill's Fires Center of Excellence in Lawton and Vance Air Force Base in Enid are within reach but are separate commutes.
Installations, agencies and employers that shape hiring in Oklahoma City
The organizations below shape the Oklahoma City market. They are named as facts about the area; none is a client of the firm.
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Tinker Air Force Base and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex
One of the largest units in Air Force Materiel Command, the complex has a team of more than 9,000 military and civilian professionals and is the largest single-site employer in Oklahoma. It performs programmed depot maintenance and modifications on the KC-46, KC-135, B-1B, B-52, E-3 and Navy E-6 fleets and overhauls the F100, F101, F108, F110, F117, F118, F119, F135 and TF33 engines.
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The FAA's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
The center occupies about 133 buildings on 1,100 acres in Oklahoma City, is home to more than 6,300 federal employees, contractors and students, was named for Senator Mike Monroney in 1978, and provides products and services to all five of the FAA's lines of business.
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Boeing Oklahoma City
Boeing states that it employs more than 3,700 professionals in Oklahoma City, where its operations modernize and modify aircraft for the U.S. military and allies on platforms including the E-3 AWACS, the B-52 and B-1 bombers and the E-4B.
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Pratt and Whitney
Pratt and Whitney operates a military engine sustainment facility in Oklahoma City near Tinker, and its partnership with the Air Logistics Complex supports depot maintenance on the F117, F119 and F135 engines.
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Fort Sill and Vance Air Force Base
The Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, a Transformation and Training Command organization, is the professional home of the Army's field artillery and air defense artillery. Vance Air Force Base at Enid, 90 miles north of Oklahoma City, hosts the 71st Flying Training Wing and trains more than 370 Air Force and allied student pilots a year on the T-1, T-6 and T-38.
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The state's aerospace sector
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce states that aerospace and defense is the second-largest and fastest-growing industry sector in the state, and that Oklahoma has hosted some of the largest military and commercial aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul centers in the world for more than seventy years.
Commuting and remote work around Oklahoma City
Interstates 35, 40 and 44 all pass through Oklahoma City, and the federal route log records I-44 at 317.68 miles in Oklahoma and I-35 at 234.82. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority's Turner Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa opened on May 16, 1953, and the John Kilpatrick Turnpike, the northern and western bypass, was extended from Northwest Highway to I-40 by January 2001 and later south to State Highway 152. Tinker sits on the southeast side, and the commute from the northwest suburbs crosses the metro.
The Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority, the largest transit agency in Oklahoma, runs bus and paratransit service in Oklahoma City and Norman, the Oklahoma City Streetcar, with two lines and 22 stops on a 4.8-mile downtown system, RAPID bus rapid transit and downtown parking.
Depot, engine and aircraft modification work is on site by nature, and the FAA center's training and logistics operations are largely on site. Engineering support and IT positions with the contractors around the base offer hybrid work where the program allows, and the requisition should state the days on site.
Clearance levels commonly requested in Oklahoma City
Depot and sustainment engineering requisitions ask for Secret, and program office and weapon system positions ask for Top Secret. FAA positions are Public Trust. TS/SCI requisitions are uncommon in this market, and the polygraph line rarely appears. Boeing's Oklahoma City careers site lists a security clearance category among its postings, which reflects the mix.
Employers here sponsor investigations readily for sustainment engineers and technicians who can start on unclassified work, and many requisitions state that an interim eligibility is acceptable.
Specialties in demand in Oklahoma City
Industries hiring in Oklahoma City
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Questions about hiring in Oklahoma City
Which Oklahoma City requisitions carry a clearance?
Depot engineering, weapon system software and program office positions supporting the Air Logistics Complex and the contractors around Tinker commonly ask for Secret, with Top Secret for some program work. FAA positions at the aeronautical center are Public Trust. The requisition summary should state the level and whether an interim eligibility is acceptable.
Are Fort Sill and Vance worked as part of the Oklahoma City market?
They are named on this page because they shape the state's defense hiring, but each is a separate commute: Fort Sill is in Lawton to the southwest and Vance is 90 miles north in Enid. Requisitions there are worked with candidates who live within reach of each installation.