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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. We are hiring immediately for the Manager, Spacecraft and Payload Integration and Systems Engineering in our office in Westminster, CO.
The Spacecraft and Payload Integration and Systems Engineering team is responsible for the health and safety, performance optimization, and anomaly resolution of Maxar Intelligence's spacecraft constellation. The team also support design, development, integration, and testing of Maxar's next generation spacecraft. As Manager, Spacecraft and Payload Integration and Systems Engineering, you are responsible for managing overall operations of the team, which includes project management, organizational planning, budget management and career development. Your primary focus is enabling the team to meet operational goals, removing obstacles for the team, and ensuring team members can focus on technical solutions and projects.
What You Will Do:

• Provide general operations support and leadership for the Spacecraft and Payload Integration and Systems Engineering team
  • Project management
  • Budget management
  • Organizational planning
  • Career development
• In partnership with technical leads, ensure the execution of spacecraft operations, analyses, and system development
  • Tools and methods to trend spacecraft health and performance metrics
  • Concept of operations to meet evolving mission demands
  • Spacecraft anomaly resolution processes and procedures
  • Troubleshoot/resolve/document spacecraft anomalies
  • Spacecraft commissioning plans/tools
  • Launch and mission rehearsals
• Oversee writing of technical documents to capture procedures and results
• Communicate spacecraft status and analyses results to operations management
• Work closely with other technical leads, managers, and system architects across ground and space systems to successfully execute our mission

Minimum Requirements:

• 2 years professional experience in a team leadership role
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or related field
• 5 years' experience in an aerospace/technical engineering role or organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership skills to build consensus, clearly communicate goals, and inspire excellence in team members
• Desire to serve in a capacity to mentor team members, contribute to team members' career growth, and build expertise within team
• Excellent written & oral communicator
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical groups.
• Experience as a spacecraft systems engineer or subsystem engineer
• Experience with ground or mission integration efforts including operations readiness activities, launch rehearsals and launch support activities
• Experience in mission management, command & control, and mission data processing systems
• Experience with planning and executing spacecraft test campaigns
• Agile management experience and/or certification
• Certified Project Management (CPM) or other management certification

Life with Us:
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 matching and immediate vesting schedule
Career growth opportunities
Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options
Programs to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development
Student loan repayment
Generous time off
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision at affordable monthly rates
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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate's unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:
$120,000.00 - $200,000.00 annually.
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.