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Position Description:

The Project Manager will be responsible for planning and executing projects from concept to completion, ensuring all phases are managed effectively. They will develop and maintain customer relationships during the project, coordinate with technical teams, and prepare comprehensive project proposals. Additionally, the role involves assessing team performance, managing budgets and schedules, and providing regular status reports to stakeholders. This position requires a candidate with a solid track record of project management experience and the ability to lead projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

Project Management

+ Develop, maintain, and oversee project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring projects remain on track, within budget, and that they meet all requirements.

+ Provide regular, detailed reporting on project status to the project team, key stakeholders, and executive leadership, ensuring complete transparency and accountability.

+ Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate scope creep, ensuring project boundaries are clearly defined and adhered to, while effectively managing change requests.

+ Capture and document lessons learned throughout the project life cycle, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the project management function.

+ Actively and collaboratively manages projects, working with both internal and external team members and stakeholders to drive desired outcomes.

+ Follows company-defined project management processes and best practices.

+ Establish and maintain strong, long-term relationships with customers, ensuring their requirements are consistently met and their expectations exceeded.

+ Support comprehensive, high-impact project proposals with detailed input from technical and financial stakeholders, ensuring documentation is thorough, compelling, and strategically aligned.

+ Oversee relationships with external suppliers, working with Contracts to create statements of work, negotiate contractual requirements, and ensure supplier performance aligns with project goals.

+ As needed, support leadership with the operation of the PMO and with maintaining a company project management methodology.

People Leadership

+ Lead cross-functional teams, including technical and project staff, to define tasks, schedules, levels of effort, and technical direction, ensuring seamless alignment with overarching project goals.

+ Train, coach, and mentor project management staff, fostering professional growth and ensuring the development of a high-performing project team.

+ Continuously evaluate and enhance the performance of the project team, addressing resource constraints and needs with senior management to ensure timely resolution and optimal team function.

Additional Responsibilities

+ At all times exemplify the core Values of Integrity, Respect, and Humility

+ A self-starter with a roll-up-the-sleeves mentality; desire to innovate and work in a hands-on and fast-paced environment

+ Excellent time management and people leadership skills

+ Travel of up to 30%

Requirements:

+ Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, chemical engineering, physics, materials science, computer?science / engineering,?mathematics, or business required.

+ 5 or more years of experience in program/project management, project engineering, systems engineering, and/or product development

+ Experience with common project management frameworks, tools, and software

+ Experience working with government and commercial aerospace customers and a familiarity with launch vehicles and/or payload development.

+ Experience working with CubeSats, Small Satellites, or any other platforms or payloads designed for operation in space (design, build, test, analysis, launch, operation, etc.).

Preferences:

+ Master's degree or equivalent preferred.

+ Experience or familiarity with biological or chemical processes, in basic laboratory principles and techniques, or the ability to quickly gain knowledge with biological or chemical processes preferred.

**Pay Details:** $135,000.00 to $185,000.00 per year

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

+ The California Fair Chance Act

+ Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

+ Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

+ San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance