Space Systems Technical Project Manager

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates a sophisticated space-based intelligence platform. They are seeking a Space Systems Technical Project Manager to oversee the design, build, and testing processes within their structures subsystem and manage vendor relationships while ensuring project milestones are met.

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

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