Space Systems Job Description
Space systems
provides guidance on component selection, supplier selection, and fitness for use based on polymer expertise, SUS industry knowledge, and familiarity with bioprocessing.
Space Systems Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assisting Payload developers as needed with applications of advanced design and manufacturing technologies
Represent senior leadership concerning matters of interest and significance to the group or division
Manage planning, control & analysis activities
Establish major site/divisional business strategies, objectives and policies
Support new business proposal activities, validate assumptions, estimate costs, and participate in bid approval process
Interpret, execute and provide consultative direction for business unit wide modifications to policies and procedures
Summarize results of business activity and financial position
Provide accounting guidance as necessary
Act as a liaison to flow communication down effectively from the Danbury, Finance and ISR & Space Leadership Teams
Perform peer reviews of financial statements between business sites when asked
Space Systems Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Space Systems
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: STK, PMP, INCOSE, CSEP, ASQ, PMI, SE, NASA, TLS, SSL
Education for Space Systems
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the space systems job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, Technology, Systems Engineering, Technical, Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
Skills for Space Systems
Desired skills for space systems include:
Engineering principles and practices
But not limited to parametric design
Model-based definition
Manufacturing
Material hardware selection
Production processes
MS Office applications
Industry-standard mechanical design principles
ASME and Government standards
Electrical component selection
Desired experience for space systems includes:
Lead and ensure appropriate employee/organizational development within the group
Select, develop, motivate and assess the staff
Evaluate performance and motivate employees to achieve their full potential
Develop statements of work, requests for proposal, justification and approvals for
Other than full and open competition, broad area announcements, award fee plans, and industry day briefings
Draft or provide input to COTR on acquisition plans, program planning, directorate planning and performance reviews, program management reviews, and quarterly performance reviews
Space Systems Examples
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of space systems. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for space systems
- Provide technical evaluations of contractor proposals through evaluation of contractor
- Coordinates the efforts of other supporting functions to develop the business strategy for this Product segment through evaluation of customer needs and environmental trends
- Leads program managers executing programs including program management oversight for functions
- Provides leadership to program managers to ensure that contract deliverables are met, customer satisfaction is strong, and overhead and other costs are minimized
- Employs appropriate Program Management Best Practices and tools
- Represents Space Systems in Operations Reviews
- Coaches,mentors, and provides performance feedback to direct and indirect reports
- Represents the company to the customer, provides program status to customers, gathers"voice of the customer" information and customer assessment data to share with the team for use in solution development
- Promotes and brands Space Systems in national symposiums, conferences, trade shows or other venues
- Providing integration expertise in support of various International Space Station (ISS) technology demonstrations including the ISS Multi-Material Fabrication Laboratory
Qualifications for space systems
- Active Top Secret/SCI with current SSBI and contingent on being able to secure special access
- Must obtain conditional Program Management Certification, accordance with RP-248
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Science or related technical discipline
- Must have experience as a Systems Architect of a deployed sensor
- Domain expertise in military development and procurement programs, capabilities
- Must have an understanding of radiometric performance, spacecraft integration, optical design, interface/control electronics, control system design, line of sight
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of space systems. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for space systems
- Identification, development and assessment of alternative mission architecture solutions to more efficiently and effectively support evolving intelligence problems External engagement across the Intelligence community to validate mission needs and capabilities required to solve evolving intelligence problems and build advocacy for future architectures and CONOPS
- Ensure excellent customer relations and harmonious team dynamics and operations through excellent conflict resolution
- Facilitate excellent coordination/communication/collaboration with other Team Leads, JSEG management, CED management, Teammate Principals, ESSCA Technical Fellows, BFO and HR
- Support JSEG leadership communication, sharing, and development of best practices for MSFC and across ESSCA
- Lead and supervise personnel in the technical accomplishment of task orders
- Drive employee awareness and commitment to personal safety, mission success and client satisfaction
- Notify JSEG management and appropriate Teammate Principal of activities that could require disciplinary and/or safety actions
- Ensure quality of technical work in accordance with the JSEG Performance Management System (EPMS), for which the team is responsible
- Subcontractor coordination of task assignment and performance
- Strategically assign personnel to broaden and develop their skills, and provide points of contact for each Task Order or Subtask
Qualifications for space systems
- Strong familiarity with reliability & safety processes and tools
- Current active DoD Secret or Top Secret security clearance
- Analyzing high level remote sensing system needs for Customers, including defining Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) that will be used to assess performance, and defining and allocating architecture across space and ground segments
- Performing Trade Studies and Analysis to develop solutions to meet needs
- Defining solutions in terms of architecture, performance, resilience and affordability
- Identifying and evaluating emerging technologies with credible potential to capture new business or secure the current business by improving affordability or capability
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of space systems. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for space systems
- Apply analytical, design, and test tools to provide state-of-art capability to MSFC and consistency across our entire staff
- Leverage broad experience/familiarity to effectively apply the technologies and tools used in technical discipline
- Conduct special projects as assigned by Department Manager or Office of Program Manager
- Provide Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) and analytical support of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) Space/Satellite Systems to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for DT&E
- Monitor the progress of Space Systems test programs with Service and OSD staffs, program offices, and contractors to ensure adequacy and thoroughness of DT&E
- Review and evaluate Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), plus system-level detailed developmental test plans
- Provide in-depth, thorough DT&E assessments to support MDAP Milestone Decisions
- Migrates business requirements into satellite requirements
- Leads an engineering staff of 20+ including coaching, mentoring, succession planning and performance management
- Develops independent cost and schedule estimates
Qualifications for space systems
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar technical degree required
- At least 10- 12 years of engineering experience including at least 5 years experience in DoD/IC acquisition management, procurement, and contract administration
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace or Systems Engineering or
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace or Systems Engineering or similar technical degree supporting space system development required
- Program Management, Program Capture, including Earned Value Management
- Experience in space development, and production programs
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of space systems. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for space systems
- Leads the Space Systems team through the entire procurement/development process constantly balancing program risk (cost, schedule, performance)
- Working with the Legal Dept, supports all government licensing efforts including the NOAA, FCC, and NSA
- Coordinates all development activities with the Satellite Operations Group and Ground System Development
- Supports procurement of satellite launch and on-orbit insurance
- Partners closely with Export Compliance to ensure all satellite procurement, launch, and insurance activities follow U.S. law, especially regarding ITAR and EAR regulations
- Manages the department budget and is accountable for variances in the expenditures
- Monitors competitors and technology advances for emerging threats and opportunities
- Server as a senior advisor regarding operational and technical aspects of military satellite communication systems and other components that comprise or support the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) system, with particular emphasis on the Extremely High Frequency (EHF) constellations and associated terminals
- Provide expertise and knowledge of various EHF SATCOM terminals and the role these terminals play in the distribution of Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) and direction of forces for NC3 or other MILSATCOM missions
- Advise and support evaluation of terminal performance for nuclear effects, to include ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP), atmospheric nuclear scintillation, and continued terminal performance after nuclear particle absorption is desired
Qualifications for space systems
- Communicating and interacting with multiple stakeholders, including presenting technical approaches and findings in written and oral form
- Knowledge and experience with IC functional manager’s organizations and experience with organizations within the intelligence community
- Must have experience as a Systems Architect of a deployed sensor, payload, or mission
- Experience with DOORs, SysML, Matlab, ModelSim, or other computer aided engineering tools familiar with Model Based Engineering techniques
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience in system level design and architecture for EO/IR payloads/sensors
- Must have full experience in decomposing capabilities into core set of system functionality needed to support identified capabilities
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of space systems. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for space systems
- Must be able to work proactively, with minimal supervision, and effectively communicate orally and in writing, providing quality acquisition and program documentation (briefings, documents, plans)
- Collaborates with a diverse group of program offices and MAJCOM stakeholders to determine specific needs and requirements and advises program personnel on terminal capability to support warfighter concepts for NC3 communication
- Plans, schedules, and facilitates a variety of exchanges and meetings with the program office team, stakeholders, and industry to understand program requirements and emerging commercial technologies which may address warfighter capability gaps
- Support program management reviews, senior level meeting/reviews, and IMP/IMS reviews
- Support and develop various briefings/schedules of program status and acquisition tasks to senior management
- Operations direct labor and material resource review including validating projections to support accurate financial planning
- Coordination and close integration with executive management, program management, engineering design, procurement, subcontracts and other department managers to ensure the company’s production objectives are supported
- Reviews and approves policies, procedures and work instructions affecting the efficiency of the Operations departments
- Applying continuous productivity and process improvement principles to improve cycle-time, throughput and overall efficiency in all areas of Production Operations while maintaining applicable compliance requirements
- Coordination with Corporate Operations function as the space business area representative for operations functions, tools, processes and procedures
Qualifications for space systems
- Understanding in performing electrical unit verification (Buy Off/Sell Off Activities)
- Part of a technical teams comprising of systems engineers, hardware engineers, and analysts in the design, development and production of payload system or unit
- Strong knowledge of industry participants (NASA, NOAA, launch providers, spacecraft manufacturers, industry service providers, ) providing the national space community customer with SETA, solutions, and high end services support, with proven ability to evaluate teammates and partners through a broad and respected professional network
- Subject matter expertise in coordination and integration of payload functional elements
- The ability to perform both horizontal and vertical integration across disciplines and elements/sub-elements of projects
- A broad understanding of systems engineering processes