BlackSky - Space Systems Technical Project Manager
Requirements
• 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 • Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits-eligible employees includes: • Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits-eligible employees includes • 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 • The anticipated salary range for Principal level candidates in Washington is $105,000-125,000 per year. The final compensation package offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on specific background and education. BlackSky is a multi-state employer, and this pay scale may not reflect salary ranges in other states or locations outside of Washington.
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.
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