Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates a sophisticated space-based intelligence platform. They are seeking a Space Systems Technical Project Manager to oversee the design, build, and testing processes within their structures subsystem and manage vendor relationships while ensuring project milestones are met.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the full scope of design, buy, build, and test within the structures subsystem and launch verification and test campaigns, 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 task management for the engineering team including, risk, and integrated schedule management for the program for key subsystem development of the satellite and key hardware
- 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 design release status
- Coordinate with the procurement team to support ordering and receipt of build to print parts in support of the broader build schedules
- Align timeline for testing, analysis, and qualification to support structural evaluation of components
- Drive technical communications with the larger technical teams and engineering leadership to shape the development framework to support test, qualification, and launch planning
- 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 well as own the programmatic timeline for component testing
- Manage reports and support development of standard documentation with respect to satellite qualification and flight testing
- Interface with the full system level schedule and identify key milestones to manage risk
- Support development of launch schedules and planning for launch campaigns
- Facilitate and become an expert in satellite site testing including developing training material for other team members
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
- Three years of direct Project Management Experience or related experience
- Experience working on projects involving significant mechanical and wire harness part design and complex systems with hardware and integrated software dependencies
- 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 and launch
- Experience with aerospace structures design and manufacturing projects
- 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
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Awesome swag
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