Program Operations Manager - Alpha

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Health, dental & vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. in Briggs, TX is seeking a Program Operations Manager to coordinate with the Program, Manufacturing Teams and Functional Partners to ensure quality, schedule, and cost commitments are met.

The role will drive production operations strategies from capture through close-out, lead readiness reviews, and partner with engineering, supply chain and finance to meet program objectives. You will mentor teams, manage budgets by factory for tooling and labor, and champion

Qualifications

University degree with 7+ years in program leadership or 14 years experience without degree.
Extensive manufacturing operations leadership.
Experience with budgeting and cost control.
Knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma principles.
Experience with ERP systems, preferably Odoo.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with program, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, and other functions to meet program needs.
Lead production readiness reviews and ensure schedule/cost objectives.
Develop and implement production operations strategies.
Support proposals and cost estimates.
Provide budget allocation by factory for tooling and labor.
Collaborate to improve FPY/RTY and manufacturability.

Skills

Program leadership

Manufacturing Ops

Lean Six Sigma

Budget management

ERP systems

People leadership

Education

University degree

Advanced degree in related field

Tools

ERP systems

Odoo

Manufacturing automation concepts

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
$10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

The Program Operations Manager is responsible for coordinating with the Program, Manufacturing Teams, and Functional Partners to ensure quality, schedule, and cost commitments are met. The POM is responsible for developing and implementing production operations strategies to ensure products are manufacturable, meet cost and throughput requirements supporting the company's growth.

The successful candidate will drive the overall management and participation in all phases of program development from capture and proposals thru development, execution, and close-out.

This position will sit in our Briggs, TX location.

This position will provide professionals with opportunities to grow their skills in operations management, technical operations, business communications, and leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary interface between the program team and the factory leadership team, responsible for flowing all program priorities & requirements on programs that have a planned transition to Operations.
Collaborate with program, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, and other functions to be sure all program needs are communicated, supported, and integrated to meet program commitments throughout the product life cycle.
Responsible to flow down and monitor Operations cost and schedule performance for new development builds and deliveries through strategic development efforts and execution of New Product Introduction processes and procedures.
Supporting proposal generation and contract-funded product development efforts
Provides active support to Supply Chain Management by working with program on identified materials constraints and logistics problems to ensure availability of materials and timely and effective operations.
Collaborates with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to develop capital strategy in support of program and factory objectives.
Provides budget allocation by factory for tooling, material, direct labor, support labor.
Provides should cost allocation by deliverable (e.g. Miranda Engine).
Coordinates cross functionally on program activities across factories & functions (manufacturing, engineering, program, M&P, supply chain) to ensure program schedule and cost objectives are achieved.
Chairs production readiness review and coordinates inputs and actions.
Creates & coordinates activities to improve FPY, RTY, defect reductions, producibility.
Translates Program schedules, working with demand planning and factory leadership, to ensure alignment by configuration between program schedule / contract and factory capacity.
Leading, influencing, communicating across all levels of the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience
Wide-ranging Program Leadership / Manufacturing Operations experience
Understanding of product design process
Proven Experience in Manufacturing, Transition to Production, and Production ramp
Self-directed leader capable of executing Change Management and handling ambiguity
Proven Experience managing budgets
Experience with manufacturing automation concepts and implementation
The ideal candidate will possess the demonstrated skills and experience from a technical, program, and manufacturing leadership perspective.
Proven Experience developing complex proposals and Basis of Estimate
Experience as a people leader; encouraging and in support of performance management activities, goal setting, career counseling, compensation planning, and employee training and talent development while managing employee relation issues within varying levels of the Organization.
Understand of Lean Application / Six Sigma
Experience with ERP systems – knowledge of Odoo is a plus

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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