Manager 2 - Spacecraft Flight Operations - Colorado Springs

Northrop Grumman•Colorado Springs, CO

1d•$146,500 - $219,700•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a Spacecraft Flight Operations – Manager Level 2 to join their team in Colorado Springs, CO. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. The role involves leading a diverse team of engineers and operators, coordinating with program management to meet contractual requirements, providing status reporting, measuring and reporting program performance metrics, and communicating effectively across multiple sites and with customers. The position also includes providing mission operations support to multiple NSS Satellite programs, maintaining Flight Controller certification, conducting anomaly review board investigations, supporting operations readiness activities, maintaining functional group processes, and providing mentoring, guidance, performance evaluation, and task management for the Operations & Maintenance / Sustaining Engineering team. Travel may be required approximately 10% of the time. This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience.
Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain SCI at time of application
Ability to work within, task, and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies.
Experience as a direct manager for an engineering team (i.e. performance appraisals, staffing, etc.)
Experience writing technical documents for external customers
Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at milestone reviews

Nice To Haves

Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment
Experience as a cost account manager (CAM) using Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
Experience maintaining hardware and software configurations in an ops center
Experience with planning and executing on orbit test campaigns
Leadership experience within a diverse team of engineers/operators

Responsibilities

Lead a diverse team of engineers & operators (10 – 15 employees) as well as cross functional integrated program teams (IPT)
Coordinate with Program Management team to meet contractual requirements on cost and on schedule
Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches.
Measure and report program performance metrics utilizing Confluence, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Project, JIRA, etc.
Communicate effectively at all levels of the organization and across multiple geo-separated sites, with internal and external customers, in written and oral format.
Provide mission operations support to the multiple NSS Satellite programs.
Provide mission operations support to Satellite programs including becoming & maintaining Flight Controller certification
Work with systems engineers to conduct anomaly review board investigations as necessary.
Support operations readiness activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings
Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes.
Provide mentoring, guidance, performance evaluation, and manage tasks for the Operations & Maintenance / Sustaining Engineering team.
May require travel ~ 10% of the time.
Other duties as assigned