Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more. Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.
Position Purpose: The Sr. AI&T (Assembly Integration & Test) Spacecraft Manager will have expertise in Aerospace programs and managing team activities and schedules. This engineer will be working in a team environment, with a focus on day to day and weekly planning, scheduling, and executing assembly and test activities with management of multiple Spacecraft programs occurring simultaneously as they are processed through the Blue Canyon manufacturing and test facilities. Development work will include daily and weekly schedules and management of team activities to meet hardware delivery and program milestones.
Title: Sr. AI&T (Assembly Integration & Test) Spacecraft Manager
Position Type: Full Time
Pay Range: $100,000 – $185,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
Location: Lafayette, CO
Benefits:
- 100% company paid health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents effective the first of the month following hire date
- Life insurance
- 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
- Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year and parental leave).
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of Assembly Integration and Test programs.
- Prepare and support SRR, PDR, CDR presentations to the Customer.
- Work in a fast-paced team environment leading the integration and testing activities of flight spacecraft hardware.
- Work with Systems and Design Engineering to support verification planning.
- Collaborate with program management, system and subsystem engineers, mission assurance, technicians, and other program stakeholders.
- Author, review, update, and implement Integration and Test Plans.
- Provide ongoing inputs on the scope of work, schedule, and cost to Program Management, including staffing forecasts and labor hours, and other direct costs for executing I activities.
- Manage the hardware activities with the team, the system engineers, mechanical engineers, planners, production technicians and test engineers by planning weekly and daily activities in the integration assembly and test of flight spacecraft hardware
- Develop and maintain weekly and daily planning schedules for the supported programs.
- Provide scheduling input to the program manager, identify additional support needed to meet hardware delivery milestones
- Interface and coordinate with customers and suppliers for program, design, and peer reviews.
- Provide technical oversight and support to teams of engineers and technicians.
- Lead test teams and assist in mentoring other manufacturing and test team stakeholders.
- Define EGSE and MGSE necessary to support programs.
- Help identify nonstandard or additional testing when we are integrating and testing payloads as part of a space vehicle test program.
- Support space vehicle launch campaigns when necessary.
- Prepare technical documentation and give presentations to peers, management, and customers
- May include personnel management responsibilities
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Required Qualifications/Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in an engineering field
- 7-15 years of experience working with spacecraft (system) level system integration and test
- Experience with budgets, schedule, and planning for performance and environmental testing
- Experience with managing technical and programmatic priorities and risk mitigation
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems and the underlying principles that relate to cost and scheduling
- Ability to support and mentor a team of technicians and test engineer
- Ability to work well in a fast paced, team environment
- Ability to interact with other functional disciplines in a program team environment.
- Ability to lead AIT Spacecraft managers level 1 and level 2
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills
- Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education
- Primary work schedule will be 8am-5pm M-F, however occasional shift and weekend work will be necessary to support AI&T campaigns
Working Conditions:
This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected factor. Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Melissa Po at HR@bluecanyontech.com.
