Spacecraft Systems Engineering Manager - Millennium Space Systems

Spacecraft Systems Engineering Manager - Millennium Space Systems

Company:

Millennium Space Systems

Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space. Our missions have direct impact to global security, like missile warning and Earth observation.

Our team is curious, bold and innovative. We take risks, innovate and explore new techniques and technologies. We influence change because we challenge the status quo. And when we watch our satellites launch, we know each one of us made it happen.
 

Job Summary:

You Lead. As a Systems Engineering Manager, working with other managers, you will lead the company’s systems engineering team as a point of contact for technical, budget and resource allocation issues to meet team members’ needs, customer requirements, and company goals.

This position's internal job is Systems Engineering Manager. Our team is currently hiring for a Level K.

Position 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

• Program Spacecraft SE Role: 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

Boeing First-Line Leader Assessment: To be considered for this position you will be required to complete an assessment as part of the selection process.  Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline.

• Candidates must have 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

• This position requires the 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.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): (Required)

• 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

  • Note: Candidates who are currently serving in senior program positions (e.g. program chief engineer for flight program) may be required to step down from that role to ensure their new management role has appropriate priority.

• 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 t