Senior Manager, Test Operations, Space

What you'll do

• Recruit, develop, and lead a multi-domain test organization; establish training, certification, procedures, and tooling transfer.
• Own test campaign definition and execution, including environmental testing, readiness reviews, and flight-hardware procedure approval.
• Define production test capacity and facility needs, drive design-for-test decisions, and communicate readiness, capability, and risk to stakeholders.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics or a related technical field.
• 10+ years in spacecraft or space vehicle integration and test, including 5+ years leading test engineers or technicians; technical lead or manager on at least two complete environmental qualification or acceptance campaigns.
• Hands-on ownership of at least three listed environmental test types; managed a team of 10 or more across at least two test domains; working knowledge of a recognized space test standard.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

• Quantified test throughput or cycle-time improvement; authored or approved 10 or more test procedures executed on flight hardware.
• Stood up test capability or an organization from zero; experience scaling production, supporting launch, Python scripting and test automation, classified and unclassified cleanrooms, or an active U.S. Top Secret or U.S. Top Secret SCI clearance.

Pay

$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

thermal vacuum, sine or random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, EMI/EMC, Python, MIL-STD-461