Senior Technical Program Manager

Your Mission

• Directly manage accounts within the business portfolio regularly interfacing with customers through the entire program lifecycle including pre-award efforts and project closeout.
• Regularly communicate with customers providing technical overviews and programmatic updates on progress across engineering & development, schedule execution, risk and mitigation status, production progress, and other key program health indicators.
• Perform system level trades and electrical power analysis to create initial design concepts devised from customer provided driving requirements and objectives
• Develop customer specific designs throughout the program lifecycle managing requirements and engineering tasks by working directly with the technology development and production teams.
• Plan, coordinate, and collaboratively work with the operations team providing inputs to strategic planning such as milestones and key dates, critical schedule and technical dependencies, and mission specific requirements.
• Contribute to proposal development by providing inputs such as engineering and programmatic scope descriptions, cost estimates for non-recurring and recurring deliverables or tasks, and schedule estimations as an output of detailed planning with stakeholders.
• Regularly provide upward status to internal company leadership regarding overall program health, risk status, and schedule progress and updates.
• Lead coordination and execution of major technical reviews such as PDR/CDR including manufacturing and test readiness reviews externally with customers and among internal stakeholders.
• Assist Business Development and support the sales team in business capture through reviewing and providing programmatic and technical content for SOWs, grants, proposals, and competitive technical solutions.
• Consistently execute established program management processes ensuring strong follow-through across stakeholders and identify opportunities to improve existing workflows or develop and implement new processes where needed.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field
• 5+ years of relevant experience as a Program Manager or Systems Engineer in the aerospace industry
• Ability to communicate technical material clearly and professionally
• Ability to represent the company professionally to external parties
• Proficiency with developing schedules, managing dependencies, and identifying opportunities and risks
• Experience with satellite electrical systems and solar arrays or photovoltaic technology
• Familiarity with common solar cell technologies and qualification procedures
• Experience using AutoCAD or similar design software

Benefits

• Competitive compensation - we want you to grow with us
• Generous, high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage on day one of employment
• 15 vacation days, 5 sick days, and 10 paid holidays annually - with an extended holiday break at year's end
• 401K with employer match up to 4% of salary
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability and employer-sponsored life insurance
• Your work will literally go to space!