Spacecraft Systems Engineering Manager - Millennium Space Systems

Boeing•El Segundo, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space, with missions impacting global security like missile warning and Earth observation. The company fosters a curious, bold, and innovative team that takes risks, explores new techniques and technologies, and challenges the status quo. As a Systems Engineering Manager, you will lead the company’s systems engineering team, serving as a point of contact for technical, budget, and resource allocation issues. This role involves guiding, motivating, and supporting a team of approximately 10 systems engineers, resolving personnel issues, advocating for the team, and facilitating knowledge sharing and process improvement. You will be responsible for all aspects of spacecraft systems engineering, including preliminary concept development, trade studies, CONOPS definition, requirements decomposition and allocation, interface requirements definition, requirements verification and validation, support to integration and test operations, anomaly resolution, risk management, and schedule execution, all while collaborating with program and financial leadership to ensure successful programmatic execution. The internal job level for this position is K.

Requirements

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline
At least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course "Exploring Leadership"
4+ years of directly relevant aerospace industry experience
1+ year of spacecraft systems engineering experience
Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. A final U.S. Top Secret clearance is required post-start.

Nice To Haves

Internal candidates should be Principal, Senior or Lead Engineers. If candidates are Lead engineers, they should have at least 4 years of experience of which at least one year is at Millennium
Candidates should have served as or be currently serving as a program chief engineer or program SE lead (e.g. SV lead, Bus lead) or equivalent
Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and ability to navigate sensitive discussions
Candidates should illustrate history of ensuring team members feel heard via active listening
Candidates be very organized and have demonstrated self-driven execution of objectives
Candidates express excitement and dedication to put in additional effort (i.e., meetings across different time zones, travel, etc.)
Candidates demonstrate proven effectiveness using remote communication tools to build rapport and to lead a team
Active Top Secret/SCI (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)

Responsibilities

Lead a team of ~10 systems engineers
Guide, motivate, and support each engineer
Resolve personnel issues, elevating to Director and/or HR as required
Advocate for their team
Communicate company information, share employee feedback
Facilitate SE mentor program, Process Improvement projects, IRAD support
Conduct performance reviews, evaluations, and provide feedback
Working with other managers, team task management
Promote knowledge sharing by encouraging lunch and learns and make sure peer reviews happen regularly
Coordinate development of SE work products and ensure efficiency of processes so that they are aligned with the team structure and tools
Identify necessary resources gaps
Responsible for all aspects of spacecraft systems engineering including performing preliminary concept development, trade studies, CONOPS definition, requirements decomposition and allocation, interface requirements definition, requirements verification and validation, support to integration and test operations, anomaly resolution, risk management, and schedule execution
Collaborating with program and financial leadership to ensure successful programmatic execution