Senior Space Systems Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee the full scope of design, buy, build, and test within the C&DH and Electrical Power subsystems, managing both internal and external efforts
• Develop integrated plans and schedules, obtaining buy-in from key engineering, program management, procurement, and production stakeholders
• Own daily tasking and deconfliction of activities within areas of responsibility
• Support vendor management, risk, and integrated schedule management for the program for key subsystem development of the satellite and key hardware
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing suppliers and help to proactively manage engineering changes with those vendors
• Interface with the engineering teams to evaluate compliance with the specification and opportunities to improve the subsystem to benefit business and schedule performance
• Track action items and schedules across engineering teams, including maintaining accurate logs of vendor discussions and decision points
• Drive technical communications with vendors and internal teams shaping the development framework to support integrated product solutions
• Shepard the engineering team through key milestone reviews including, but not limited to, Preliminary Design, Critical Design, Test Readiness, and early production deliveries
• Support supply chain in understanding engineering changes, performance, and key dependencies for supplier test and delivery schedules
• Support the entire development lifecycle for optimization and identify design and decision gates along with developing the associated criteria
• Support qualification testing, testing review, and set up as needed as well as own the programmatic timeline for component testing
• Interface with the full system level schedule and identify key milestones to manage risk
• Strategically identify opportunities to pull testing in-house or support vendor testing to reduce risk
• Facilitate and become an expert in satellite site testing including developing training material for other team members

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• Six years of direct Project Management experience or related experience
• Experience developing and deploying complex systems with hardware and integrated software dependencies
• Experience with management of vendors for computer board development or command and data handling systems
• Highly skilled at MS project and managing schedules with critical dependencies
• Experience working with integrated product teams
• Experience with JIRA
• Experience managing budgets and resource planning
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% to support supplier activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess strong team leadership and inter-team cooperation and organization skills
• Experience with software systems and management of software development efforts
• Experience presenting information to external customers a plus
• Hardware and test lab experience a plus