Mission Director (Secret Clearance)

Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. 

Maxar Intelligence is currently seeking a Mission Director in our Mission Operations Center to join our team in Longmont, CO.  

Your Project: In this role, you will be responsible managing the operational mission and personnel of a Mission Operations crew. You will preserve the spacecraft and ground systems, ensure existing and potential satellite tasking requirements are met, generate revenue in the form of imagery and ancillary data, and ensure cloud cover assessment and product production are completed for Maxar Intelligence's internal and external customers and meet Service Level Agreements. 

Your Career: We are very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.  

What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness. There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution

to our collective mission. So, we recognize that with best-in-class benefits like:

• 401K

• Career growth opportunities

• Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options

• Program to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development

• Student loan repayment

• Generous time off

• Plus everything you’d expect from a leading employer such as a matching and immediately vest 401K plan, robust insurance coverage, medical, dental and vision, etc.

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):  

• Manage an integrated ground / flight operations, planning and production shift team of eight or more operators and engineers in support of Maxar Intelligence satellite constellation and ground infrastructure along with other support teams as directed by management. 

• Responsible for mission success and systems performance necessary to meet customer requirements in a 24/7 environment. 

• Draft, validate, support and enforce operational procedures and completion of required trainings. 

• Maintain a high level of situational awareness of all mission planning and operations activities within the Mission Operations Center (MOC). 

• Develop and maintain relationships with various spacecraft support teams such as spacecraft and