Flight Director

Please review the job details below.

Maxar is currently seeking a motivated, experienced Flight Director to join our team in Palo Alto, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring health, safety, and control of an active satellite during orbit raising and in-orbit testing campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Configure the Control Center for operations, updating its configuration as needed to support the mission.
• Work a variety of shifts scheduled for daytime, evening, and overnight hours, any day of the week, to include weekends.
• Communicate with remote ground station personnel to maintain ground to satellite connectivity.
• Respond to anomalous or contingent satellite function event in a timely and professional manner.
• Utilize orbit determination and analysis data to plan for, connect to, and configure cortexes located at a variety of ground station antennas around the world.
• Engage and clearly communicate with a team of subsystem engineers to ensure healthy satellite configurations.
• Utilize knowledge of aerospace subsystems and radio frequency to analyze telemetry trends, identify potential issues, notify responsible engineers, and/or troubleshoot actual issues.
• Complete timely shift reports, event log entries, and documentation deliverables, such as propellant accounting.
• Assist other members of the Mission Control team with special projects, as directed.
• Command the satellite(s)
• Operate the Emergency Command And Telemetry Subsystem (ECATS)
• Generate Tables or Logs for other members of the Mission Control Team or the Customer
• Restore functionality of Mission Control Center equipment
• Prepare the system to monitor additional telemetry points requested by the Team
• Prepare instructions to perform a new task to be used by other members of the Team
• Create Incident Reports (documenting an unusual event) or Critiques (documenting an abnormal or less then optimal function of the system).
• Develop scripts to automate MCC and payload test functions
• Test scripts to automate MCC and payload test functions to validate function and safety before live implementation

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. 
• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, electrical, mechanical or related engineering discipline
• 8 years of experience
  • Previous satellite command and control experience
  • Previous satellite initialization and test experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of all satellite subsystems, ground station antenna functionality, and Earth orbits.
• Experience working with remote equipment sites.
• Customer service experience.
• Proficient using MatLab, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
• Skilled in programming.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills

● The base pay for this position within California is: $120,000.00 - $200,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.  If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

The date of posting can be found on Maxar’s Career page at the top of each job posting.

To apply, submit your application via Maxar’s Career page.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.