Ground Support Equipment Manager

Company Overview:

Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more. Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.

Position Purpose: The purpose of this position is to develop, maintain, and execute plans for GSE development and use across BCT.  Programs may have competing needs for GSE, and this position resolves resource contentions as well as maintains plans future GSE needs to minimize contentions going forward.  The GSE Manager will provide leadership and supervision in a team environment, leveraging resources that are matrixed in from Engineering, Operations, Mission Assurance, Supply Chain, Contracts, and other BCT organizations.  The GSE Manager will engage with the product line leadership, business development, and program teams to ensure that the ground support equipment needs of the product lines are met.  GSE includes mechanical equipment such as lifting fixtures, build carts, and rotation carts; as well as electrical GSE (EGSE) such as solar array simulators, spacecraft command and control interfaces, RF test equipment, and capitalized engineering design units (EDUs). 

Position Title & Salary Range:

Title: Ground Support Equipment Manager

Position Type: Full Time

Pay Range: Pay Range: $125,000 - $235,000  (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

Location: Lafayette, CO

Benefits:

• 100% company paid health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year and parental leave).

Job Responsibilities: 

• Serve program customers (product lines) by providing compliant GSE as well as status of ongoing GSE projects. 

• Establish and maintain an inventory record of company-owned (capital) assets allocated to the product line and shared across product lines.  This includes maintaining a knowledge of the physical location of each asset, its condition, and its schedule for calibration/maintenance as required.  Know what we have and what state it’s in. 

• Manage GSE projects: plan projects (requirements, budget, schedule); secure resources to execute; oversee execution, monitoring progress against budget and schedule constraints; managing risk mitigation and opportunity capture; provide regular status updates to program leadership. 

• Manage the GSE inventory use across programs, working with program leadership to resolve resource contentions. 

• Ensure that GSE is calibrated ahead of program need.   

• Execute preventive maintenance to minimize long term cost of GSE and ensure availability to programs. 

• Identify subject matter experts and product owners for GSE. 

• Provide cost, schedule, and resource estimates for proposals and programs. 

• Continuously evaluate product line needs for GSE, working with business development and product line leadership; prepare and submit capital requests and champion the request through to resolution.  This effort includes developing cost estimates, return-on-investment estimates, and schedules for GSE development/procurement. 

• Prepare for and present at major program reviews, when requested. 

• Evaluate existing and emerging technologies related to GSE. 

• Ensure all business is conducted using the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations as well as company policies and directives 

• May include personnel management responsibilities 

• Other responsibilities as assigned 

Required Qualifications/Education: 

• At least 8+ years of relevant experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or Business Management with Engineering background 

• Good documentation and communication skills 
• Strong technical management skills and demonstrated ability to execute demanding programs 

Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines.  BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected factor. Colorado Residents:  In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.  Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Melissa Po at HR@bluecanyontech.com.