Senior Space Program Architect & Scheduler - Remote

AscendArc; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AscendArc is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead planning, scheduling, and execution of complex satellite programs. You will translate technical development activities into credible, executable schedules and assist in managing engineering/subsystem teams to deliver work on time.

This individual must work directly with engineers to understand the work, validate dependencies, and maintain an integrated schedule.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of project/program management, engineering project management, program controls, scheduling, or related experience supporting complex technical programs.
• Experience in aerospace, spacecraft, defense, aviation, or another complex engineering/hardware-development environment.
• Demonstrated experience translating technical activities and deliverables into realistic, bottoms-up schedules.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining detailed, logic-driven project schedules, including dependency management, and schedule risk management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project or comparable project management/scheduling software.
• Strong understanding of project Management fundamentals. Such as Work Breakdown Structures (WBS),Critical Path Method (CPM), etc.
• Ability to identify schedule risks, understand their potential program impact, and report risks and potential mitigation strategies to management.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate technical deliverables into bottoms-up schedules with realistic durations, dependencies and measurable completion criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules across multiple customer programs, aligning engineering, procurement, manufacturing, qualification, integration, test, verification and delivery activities.
• Apply a strong understanding of spacecraft and hardware development lifecycles to identify missing activities, sequencing issues, unrealistic assumptions, and schedule risks.
• Establish and maintain schedule logic, critical and near-critical paths, schedule margin, baselines and milestone forecasts.
• Work with engineering leads to understand progress, validate remaining work, and maintain accurate forecasts based on actual program execution.
• Drive coordination across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and program leadership to resolve dependencies, remove execution blockers, and maintain progress against program commitments.
• Incorporate supplier lead times, procurement milestones, and hardware delivery dates into program schedules.
• Facilitate schedule reviews and drive closure of action items, decisions, and recovery plans that affect program milestones.
• Prepare and present schedule status, critical-path changes, schedule risks, recovery actions, and decisions required from leadership.
• Maintain schedule baselines and support change control to ensure impacts to committed dates are evaluated, communicated and approved.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Cross-functional comms

CPM basics

MS Project

Risk management

Tools

MS Project

Job description

AscendArc is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead planning, scheduling, and execution of complex satellite programs. You will translate technical development activities into credible, executable schedules and assist in managing engineering/subsystem teams to deliver work on time.

This individual must work directly with engineers to understand the work, validate dependencies, and maintain an integrated schedule.