Spaceport Integration Manager

SpaceX • Cape Canaveral, FL

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About The Position

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
SPACEPORT INTEGRATION MANAGER
As a Spaceport Integration Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating spaceport development with all external and internal departments in Cape Canaveral. You will be a face to customers and multiple government entities for the launch site. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring ground systems and flight hardware (rockets and payloads) are compliant with requirements for hazardous operations on base, maintaining launch site certification, pushing back on unnecessary requirements, and streamlining existing processes. This role will be a critical enabler for the 2024 manifest increase as we streamline our regulatory requirements and processes.
You will represent SpaceX to the Range and our government customers. This includes maintaining a strong relationship with Range Safety to ensure we obtain and maintain approval for all hazardous operations. Additionally, you will need to ensure we maintain launch site certification with the USSF, NASA, and NRO government customers. Lastly, you will represent SpaceX to Range leadership, directly supporting the Site Director, to ensure that SpaceX is fully coordinated at all levels on-base to enable tactical and strategic needs at the launch site.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of experience leading technical process improvements and/or serving in a technical project management capacity in an aerospace environment
• 2+ years of experience leading teams, projects, or people

Nice To Haves

• Professional experience with launch vehicle integration or pad operations
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Experience successfully negotiating complex agreements or issues to resolution
• Demonstrated technical aptitude for the products you have supported
• Regulatory compliance experience, specifically with tailoring requirements
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external customers
• Highly detail oriented, diligent, hard working

Responsibilities

• Function as the primary point of contact for the Range. You will be the owner of all Range requirements and safety documentation which includes regular recurring tag-ups to drive continuous progress
• Function as the primary point of contact for our government customers. Manage government customer certification requirements and oversight of changes for all launch site ground systems (Starship, F9, pads, and Dragon)
• Communicate the strategic direction of SpaceX including launch manifest, construction, standards, safety, and security measures to ensure effective and timely approval, support, & execution with customers and the Range
• Manage conflicts that arise with tactical execution with the base and base leadership and other launch providers
• Actively streamline the launch process for safe and reliable, robust, rapid and cost-effective launch by challenging requirements and typical timelines/cost

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees