Program Chief Engineer
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Job Summary
Our mission is to provide real-time on-orbit connectivity for critical missions enabling a new era of data-driven intelligence and innovation. With 33 satellites launched to date Kepler operates the first commercial optical data relay constellation enabling real-time continuous space communications while supporting advanced on-orbit compute and hosted payload capabilities.
As the Program Chief Engineer you are the senior technical authority for the spacecraft program and the single point of technical accountability for mission success. Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Satellite Systems you provide technical leadership across all engineering disciplines to ensure the spacecraft is designed built verified and operated as an integrated system. You establish the technical direction drive engineering execution make timely decisions conduct rigorous technical reviews and communicate effectively with engineering teams executive leadership customers and suppliers.
The Chief Engineer is accountable for the overall technical success of the mission. You are responsible for maintaining technical integrity driving engineering progress ensuring design maturity balancing performance reliability cost schedule manufacturability and mission risk and delivering flight-ready spacecraft that enable successful mission execution.
- Please note: Though this role provides a Hybrid flexibility it will require an on-site work presence at Keplers Toronto HQ
- Provide technical leadership across Systems Software Electrical Mechanical RF GNC Payload AIT Manufacturing Operations and Product Assurance
- Drive engineering convergence toward a technically coherent spacecraft
- Ensure engineering activities remain aligned with mission objectives
- Drive engineering progress and maintain technical momentum
- Identify and remove technical roadblocks
- Ensure timely technical decision-making and accountability across engineering disciplines
- Lead rigorous technical reviews across all spacecraft subsystems
- Challenge assumptions analyses margins interfaces and verification evidence
- Lead design reviews anomaly reviews and readiness reviews
- Make timely evidence-based technical decisions
- Balance performance cost schedule manufacturability reliability and mission risk
- Remove technical barriers or blockers to maintain engineering momentum
- Communicate technical direction clearly and consistently across the engineering organization
- Translate complex technical issues into concise recommendations for executive leadership
- Represent Engineering during customer reviews supplier meetings executive briefings and governance boards
- Ensure decisions assumptions risks and actions are clearly documented and communicated
- Build alignment across Engineering Program Management Product Assurance Manufacturing Operations and executive leadership
- Mentor senior engineers and future technical leaders
- Continuously raise the standard of technical rigor engineering reviews and engineering excellence
- Drive continuous improvement platform standardization and lessons learned
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- 15 years of experience developing complex spacecraft or aerospace systems
- Experience serving as the technical authority or senior technical leader for at least one spacecraft development program
- Extensive knowledge of spacecraft architecture integration verification manufacturing qualification launch and mission operations
- Exceptional technical judgment communication stakeholder management and leadership skills
- Chief Engineer Deputy Chief Engineer or equivalent technical leadership experience
- Constellation or multi-spacecraft program experience
- Experience across multiple spacecraft disciplines
- Mission assurance Integration and test campaign launch campaign and on-orbit operations experience
- Experience driving engineering standardization and AI-enabled engineering workflows
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About Company
Employment Equity & Accommodation Statement Kepler Communications is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, including women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, members o ... View more
