Senior Manager, Spacecraft Test Operations & Production

Telemetry Today LLC; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Senior Manager of Test Operations to lead and scale its Test Operations organization, overseeing Spacecraft and Subsystems Test Technicians. You will staff, schedule, develop talent, and ensure safe, repeatable test execution aligned with production priorities in a fully onsite San Jose, CA environment.

You will partner with Test Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and PM to drive efficiency, standardize processes, and build capacity models for future growth in

Qualifications

• 10+ years in aerospace or complex hardware production and test.
• 5+ years leading test/production organizations.
• Directly leading technicians and hands-on teams.
• Experience with spacecraft, avionics, environmental test operations.
• Ability to scale teams, processes, and infrastructure in a growing production environment.
• Staffing, shift operations, and technician development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Spacecraft and Subsystems Test Technicians and technical leads.
• Establish staffing plans, shift coverage, skill matrices, and technician development paths.
• Set daily operational priorities and drive consistent execution across teams and shifts.
• Build a culture of safety, accountability, quality, and ownership of flight hardware.
• Own day-to-day execution of spacecraft and subsystem test operations.
• Ensure tests are performed using approved procedures, configurations, tooling, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Test Engineering to transition new or immature tests into stable production operations.
• Identify and resolve operational constraints, bottlenecks, and resource conflicts.
• Develop and implement the operating model required to scale test operations with production volume.
• Establish repeatable processes, standard work, training, and qualification requirements.
• Develop capacity and labor models for stations, equipment, shifts, and future production demand.
• Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing to design test infrastructure, stations, EGSE, tooling, and facilities for scalable production.
• Identify opportunities to reduce test cycle time, improve utilization, and increase throughput.
• Support the transition of new spacecraft platforms, subsystems, and test capabilities into production.
• Build organizational capability through cross-training, workforce planning, and scalable team structures.
• Establish and manage metrics for throughput, cycle time, utilization, schedule adherence, rework, and test capacity.
• Drive daily management and continuous improvement across Test Operations.
• Use operational data to identify constraints and prioritize investments in people, equipment, and infrastructure.
• Support MRR, TRR, and production readiness activities.
• Ensure operational readiness for new programs, facilities, test stations, and production lines.

Skills

Aerospace leadership

Test operations leadership

Staffing & capacity planning

Cross-functional leadership

Lean/Six Sigma

Throughput improvement

Tools

EGSE

Test stations

MES

Production dashboards

Electrical test equipment

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Senior Manager of Test Operations to lead and scale its Test Operations organization, overseeing Spacecraft and Subsystems Test Technicians. You will staff, schedule, develop talent, and ensure safe, repeatable test execution aligned with production priorities in a fully onsite San Jose, CA environment.

You will partner with Test Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and PM to drive efficiency, standardize processes, and build capacity models for future growth in