Lead Space Vehicle Operations & Training

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Space Vehicle Operations & Training Lead to provide technical leadership for LEOPS supporting a constellation of developmental spacecraft in Palm Bay, Florida. You will lead operations, develop procedures, and coordinate training products while guiding a multidisciplinary LEOPS team.

The role requires leading technical reviews, ensuring mission readiness, and sustaining on-site 24x7 LEOPS activities, with interfaces across Space Operations,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly required.
• 4+ years of experience in spacecraft/satellite operations, satellite command and control (C2), mission operations, or a directly related space operations environment.
• 3+ years of experience developing, reviewing, validating, or executing spacecraft operating procedures, mission procedures, technical orders, or comparable mission-support documentation.
• 2+ years of experience developing, delivering, or evaluating technical training for spacecraft operators, mission controllers, or similar technical personnel.
• 2+ years of experience leading, supervising, or providing technical directions to multidisciplinary teams in mission-critical, high-tempo, or safety-critical operational environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the LEOPS team and provide day-to-day technical guidance, mentorship, prioritization, and coordination of spacecraft operations activities.
• Direct the development, technical review, validation, configuration control, and release of spacecraft operating procedures, training curricula, lesson materials, and mission-support documentation.
• Lead development and maintenance of operations and training products supporting spacecraft initialization, checkout, commissioning, nominal operations, contingency operations, and anomaly response.
• Author, maintain, coordinate, and control LEOPS-related CDRL deliverables, ensuring products meet contractual, technical, schedule, and customer requirements.
• Serve as the primary Space Operations interface for Integrated Mission System (IMS) inputs, ensuring assigned activities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are accurately represented and delivered on schedule.
• Coordinate across Space Vehicle Engineering, Ground Systems, Mission Planning, Training, Systems Engineering, Program Management, and customer organizations to ensure operational readiness.
• Support spacecraft command-and-control activities, including telemetry monitoring and analysis, commanding, mission planning, contact execution, and anomaly resolution.
• Lead technical reviews of operating procedures and training products to ensure accuracy, completeness, configuration alignment, and operational usability.
• Identify operational risks, training gaps, procedure deficiencies, and integration dependencies and coordinate corrective actions with appropriate stakeholders.
• Support test, rehearsal, certification, and mission-readiness activities leading to spacecraft launch and on-orbit operations.
• Execute and sustain 24 × 7 on-site LEOPS operations during designated mission periods, including shift coverage, anomaly response, spacecraft C2 execution, and real-time customer coordination.
• Provide technical status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to program and customer leadership.

Skills

Spacecraft operations

C2 operations

Mission operations

Team leadership

Technical documentation

Training development

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

13 years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

CDRL deliverables

IMS inputs

ISD ADDIE methodologies

Security clearance TS/SCI

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Space Vehicle Operations & Training Lead to provide technical leadership for LEOPS supporting a constellation of developmental spacecraft in Palm Bay, Florida. You will lead operations, develop procedures, and coordinate training products while guiding a multidisciplinary LEOPS team.

The role requires leading technical reviews, ensuring mission readiness, and sustaining on-site 24x7 LEOPS activities, with interfaces across Space Operations,