Vice President, Project & Mission Management

1. Being chiefly accountable, leads the Project and Mission Management teams to deliver related to quality, scope, schedule, budget, and customer satisfaction.
2. Maintains the highest level of collaboration within their department and with other departments, and develops and maintains relationships with functional managers, department heads.
3. Delivers exemplary customer relationship performance.
4. Manages the engineering team and other matrix functions in charge of payload fit-checks, hardware testing, and integration activities.
5. Conducts and presides in all internal and external reviews as needed, including but not limited to the reviews   of customer’s payload data, contract requirements and verification, documentation, and compliance data, as well as its launch vehicle partners or their subcontractors.  
6. Responsible for understanding the United States export control laws and regulations, and the spectrum coordination laws and regulations. 
7. Fosters an environment of active and collaborative project & mission management, where their team members actively work with both internal and external team members and stakeholders to drive desired outcomes.
8. Ensures an effective interface exists with customer payload teams, from contract signing to in-space operation and payload return.
9. Demands and delivers outstanding communication between project or mission managers and other teammates and stakeholders.
10. Ensures relevant project & mission management documentation is of high quality and up to date.
11. Supports business development & sales teams, including brokering of technical reviews, leading feasibility assessments and major proposal efforts, drafting statements of work, and assisting in contract formulation and milestone development, etc. 

1. Owns, updates, and improves the project management methodology at the company.
2. Takes responsibility for project management issues and guides project managers through the project processes to achieve successful outcomes.
3. Accountable for all company-level project management goals.
4. Tracks, reports, and actively improves project management performance metrics across the company’s projects & missions to include performance versus expected scope, schedule, and budget.
5. Being accountable for the Project Management Center of Excellence (PM CoE), establishes reporting requirements for all projects, reviews and understands project performance, and develops & maintains metrics that projects report.
6. Responsible for the training, coaching, and mentoring of project managers, providing input to functional managers regarding Learning & Development needs, and establishing training requirements for project managers.  This person will develop and give project management training as appropriate, although outside training may also be used.
7. Continually assesses project team performance and communicates resource constraints to management.

• At all times exemplify the core Values of Integrity, Respect, and Humility
• A self-starter with a roll-up-the-sleeves mentality; desire to innovate and work in a hands-on and fast-paced environment
• Excellent time management and people leadership skills
• Travel of up to 30%
• Other duties as assigned

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team by fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence, ensuring effective communication and coordination within the organization.
• Ensures effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention of multiple teams.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, chemical engineering, physics, materials science, computer science / engineering, mathematics, or business required.
• Master's degree or equivalent preferred.

• Required 
  1. Minimum of 15+ years' experience required managing significant (>>$20M) and complicated projects required.
  2. Minimum 5 years’ work experience in program management or mission management in the aerospace industry required. 
  3. Leadership experience managing multi-functional and geographically distributed teams with proven success operating in a matrix environment required.
  4. Experience in participating in program captures and bid reviews required.
  5. Understanding of finance and proven experience in managing team to financial targets required.

• Preferred
  1. Experience working with government and commercial aerospace customers and a familiarity with launch vehicles and/or payload development strongly preferred. 
  2. Experience working with CubeSats, Small Satellites, or any other platforms or payloads designed for operation in space (design, build, test, analysis, launch, operation, etc.) preferred. 
  3. Experience or familiarity with biological or chemical processes, in basic laboratory principles and techniques, or the ability to quickly gain knowledge with biological or chemical processes preferred.
  4. Experience with or ability to understand and/or conduct technical analysis products with structural, thermal, and orbital mechanics preferred. 

• PMP credential strongly preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma certification at green belt or higher preferred.

• Critical & Strategic Thinking
• People Leadership
• Decision Making
• Adapts to Change 
• Attention to Detail  
• Business Acumen 
• Oral and written technical and non-technical communication. 

1. The work is sedentary, requiring low levels of physical activity. A candidate should be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
2. The workplace operates under core working hours as defined by company policy. However, work schedules may vary based on business needs.  If a schedule needs to be changed, managers will notify their employees.
3. The work requires close visual acuity to perform activities. A candidate should be able to do the following activities without issue: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes; operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
4. The work will require the employee to make repetitive motions and manipulate objects using their arms, hands, and fingers. The employee will be required to express and exchange ideas using spoken instructions accurately, loudly, and quickly. The employee will also need to discriminate sound at normal speaking levels without correction and can receive detailed information through oral communications.

EEO STATEMENT: 

It is our policy to select, place, train and promote the most qualified individuals based upon relevant factors such as work quality, attitude and experience so as to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and without regard to non-work related factors such as race, color, religion/creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran stats, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, genetic information, or other protected status. When applicable, our policy of non-discrimination applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, transfer, promotion, placement, lay-off, compensation, termination, reduction in force and benefits. 

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (Title 31, Subtitle B, Chapter V, Part 579 Subpart C §579.313) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.