Sr. Technical Project Manager, Structures & Harness

Sr. Technical Project Manager, Spacecraft Structures and Harness

LeoStella is a state-of-the-art small satellite design and manufacturing company based in the Seattle area. At LeoStella, we are redefining how high-quality satellite constellations are built at scale. Our focus is on developing and using intelligent and agile engineering and manufacturing processes to accelerate the development and production of small-sat constellations, all while lowering costs and increasing on-orbit capabilities.

The work we do at LeoStella is helping organizations and markets change the world by removing the barriers to building satellite constellations. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, high performing team focused on changing the paradigm in satellite development and production!

Position Description:

LeoStella is looking for an experienced senior Project Manager with a strong background in developing, testing, and manufacturing aerospace structures and wire harness to own our cross-program portfolio including development and production programs from vehicle proposals through serial production of spacecraft. The ideal candidate will thrive on leading teams of engineers, technicians, and others, from pre-contract and specification to delivery of production satellites at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead small satellite structures and harness product team to deliver designs, documentation, and hardware to support LeoStella programs.
• Plan and coordinate across a multi-disciplinary team including structures design, structural analysis, thermal engineering, harness design, supply chain management, systems engineering, production, purchasing, and others.
• Tackle challenges large and small to meet cost, schedule, and technical requirements.
• Interface with other product and program teams, customers, and suppliers to ensure program success.
• Work closely with engineering department functional managers to establish and maintain framework for successful on time delivery of necessary work products and hardware.
• Manage evolving and ambiguous needs and triage change as product advocate. 
• Create program schedule and lead internal cross-program team from kick off to production delivery.
• Support the customer deliverables such as specification compliance, verification reports, interface documentation, schedule, program reviews, and design reviews.
• Track progress against development schedule and budget, remove constraints, and identify risk mitigation plans to maintain program schedule and cost.
• Manage customer and partner company communications in compliance with export control.
• Develop and maintain a staffing plan/forecast consistent with program budgets and schedules and work with organizational leadership to ensure program is staffed to plan.
• Use and maintain company tools for task management, schedule maintenance, ERP planning - example JIRA, Confluence, IMS, ERP workflows.
• Lead and maintain program quality assurance plan, metrics, and root cause corrective action.
• Create, own, and maintain executive program dashboards using program office methodology and templates.
• Identify best practices, lessons learned and opportunities for process improvement.  Document, train and implement best practices across multiple programs.

Required Skills:

• Ability to work self-directed, seeking out issues; small and large problems alike - rather than being told where to look. Then work tenaciously to solve them.
• Demonstrated product development leadership skills with an emphasis on aero or space products.
• Strong ability to manage a diverse team of engineers, suppliers, and production teams and achieve technical agreement both internally and within customer teams.

Qualifications:

• BS in a relevant technical field – advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of engineering design and development experience in a related aerospace industry
• 10+ years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering management or IPT management of the life-cycle development resulting in hardware shipments.
• Must be a U.S. Person 
• Up to 25% travel to customer and/or suppliers

Compensation & Benefits:

• Compensation range is $120-170K + 10% target bonus
  • Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
  • Base salary is one part of your total rewards package - you may also be eligible for up to 10+% potential bonuses. Additional employee benefits are detailed below as well.
• Employee Benefits include:
  • Employer-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability.
  • 401(k) with up to 3% company match
  • Paid parental leave and maternity-disability leave
• Paid Time Off and Flexible Schedule: You may accrue 4 weeks paid time off per year, in addition to 8 company holidays.  You may also have the choice to take Flexible Friday off every other week.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. EEO is the Law Poster. 

LeoStella participates in E-Verify. See Link for details.  See also Right to Work Statement in English and Spanish.

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