Director Platforms Mission Engineering
Director Platforms Mission Engineering
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Job Description
Be more than just an employee number! Join Terran Orbital a leader in innovation manufacturing and operations in the satellite industry. We are a pioneer in the miniaturization of space technologies and the delivery of responsive space solutions. We are a unique fastgrowing and trusted team focused on quickly and economically designing building launching and operating stateoftheart satellites for advanced mission constellations.
Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Director Platforms & Mission Engineering (PME) to join our growing team. Reporting to the VP Space & Mission Systems the Director Platforms and Mission Engineering will provide organizational vision and management of engineering and supporting personnel for Space Platform & Mission Engineering. The Director Platforms & Mission Engineering leads the organization responsible for Space Platform Products and Mission Engineering across the portfolio. The role will provide guidance and management of strong systems thinking product definition productization and ensure the necessary and pertinent processes are performed throughout business acquisition and product development phases. This includes mission engineering system architecture & analysis product baselines requirements management system performance modeling and analysis systems design integration & test system verification and validation specialty systems safety and system sustainment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Liaison with Program Management Components and Modules Group (CMG) Assembly Integration & Test (AIT) DFX.
- Support engineering department operations.
- Collaboration with Business Development identify IRAD needs and priorities.
- Product Baseline architecture design integration and systems engineering definitions.
- Provide ownership for the people processes and tools that support business captures support product definition engineering activities including managing and integrating personnel recruiting employee development employee engagement skills development staffing process and support product development.
- Provide support for new business development implementation of systems engineering process technical risk & opportunity management and lessons learned from ground operations test and onorbit evaluation.
- Orchestrate systems engineering on new business activities establishing product organizational structures building high performance teams managing system development owning and developing technical product baselines managing product baseline change owning and executing technical product reviews and measuring through system delivery system operations and system retirement.
- Oversee technical aspect of reviews responsible for productization process improvement plans proposal review and commitment authority for scope of work.
- Ensure application of sound Engineering processes with tailoring as defined by Mission Class Mission Area Business direction and customer contractual direction.
- Responsible for participation in internal and external audits as well as Engineering corrective action or Review boards.
- Responsible for advising on strategic roadmaps for existing and proposed product lines with guidance on their applicability capabilities and risk posture.
- Capable of personally contributing on a technical level to ensure quality efficient and thorough engineering throughout the product lifecycle.
- Participate lead and create a culture that supports technical discussions with internal stakeholders customers and suppliers to ensure product and mission success.
- Manage mission system and product level trade studies to balance risk cost and performance with respect to market demands.
- Ensure engineering artifacts that support requirements and architecture development; modeling and simulation; cybersecurity; network operations; interoperability; verification and validation testing; and enterprise deployment and capability monitoring.
- Establish standard operating procedures that support mission assurance risk mitigation and contingency plans to assure required mission up time for all ground activities.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to define interfaces; integrate mission applications and data storage; and verify Terran Orbital enterprise capabilities.
- Implement life cycle engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in engineering physics or related field.
- 10 years or more of experience in engineering development.
- 5 years of technical leadership experience in the space domain.
- Experience with risk issue and opportunity management.
- Demonstrated ability to make complex critical decisions in a timely manner.
- Experience leading operations on complex programs or large functional organizations with proven collaboration and coordination skills across internal and external stakeholder organizations.
- Understanding of how people process tools systems and leadership operate to achieve goals.
- Proven ability to deliver effective communication verbally written and through wellcrafted presentations across all levels of an organization.
- Impeccable attention to detail and sense of urgency.
- Ability to selfgovern with minimal supervision establish workload priorities and to utilize efficient time management practices to achieve assigned tasks.
- U.S. citizenship with eligibility to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance.
Additional Differentiators
- Masters or Doctorate in a relevant field
- Demonstrated experience and success with technical leadership of launched or operational space domain systems and architectures.
- Demonstrated experience and success with the development of cuttingedge space systems mission and satellite astrodynamics including satellite software missioncritical applications.
- Familiarity with satellite system budgets including mass power and link budgets.
Benefits
- 100 Companypaid comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) Match
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Salary Range$185000$285000
Your actual level and base salary will be determined casebycase and may vary based on the jobrelated qualification knowledge skills education and experience. In addition to base salary we offer 100 covered medical dental and vision coverage a 401(k) match Flexible Time Off (FTO) covered life insurance maternity and paternity leave tuition reimbursement employee referrals and lots of swag!
About Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of satellite products primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries. Terran Orbital provides endtoend satellite solutions by combining satellite design production launch planning mission operations and onorbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding military civil and commercial customers. Learn more at
Work Environment
The job operates in a professional office environment but in a manufacturing company. This job routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers and scanners.
Disclaimers
Terran Orbital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race color religion age national origin ancestry ethnicity gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status veteran status disability genetic information or membership in any other group protected by federal state or local law.
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Terran Orbital does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters employment agencies or staffing firms. To conduct business with Terran Orbital a Master Services Agreement (MSA) must be executed and confirmed prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. Without a signed MSA Terran Orbital shall not be responsible to any individual or entity for any payment relating to any form of fee or compensation.
And in the event that a resume or candidate is submitted by a recruiter an employment agency or a staffing firm without a fully executed MSA Terran Orbital has the unrestricted right to pursue and hire any of those candidate(s) without any legal or financial responsibility to the recruiter agency and/or firm.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
