Space Program Lead: Schedule, Budget & Delivery

Mantis Space; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mantis Space in Albuquerque, NM seeks an experienced Space Program Manager to own cost, schedule, and technical baselines from award to on-orbit acceptance, ensuring proper reporting and decision support.

You will coordinate reviews, manage an integrated master schedule, budgets, and risk registers, while guiding cross-functional teams and external stakeholders; candidate should have 8–14 years in space programs and be eligible for US security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline required or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree preferred for advanced technical leadership in space programs.
• Experience leading space hardware programs through design, build, test, and delivery milestones.

Responsibilities

• Own the program cost, schedule, and technical baseline from contract award through final delivery and on-orbit acceptance.
• Maintain program control to support customer reporting requirements and internal investment decisions.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing point of contact for program status, milestones, deliverables, contract modifications, and issue resolution.
• Lead integrated program reviews, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, system integration reviews, and milestone events with internal and external stakeholders.
• Build, maintain, and actively manage an Integrated Master Schedule reflecting critical-path dependencies across hardware design, fabrication, test, integration, launch, and operations.
• Establish and manage program budgets, allocate resources, track actuals against plan, and maintain earned value data.
• Identify, quantify, and actively manage program risk; maintain a living risk register and escalate issues when needed.
• Proficiency in risk management, cost performance methods, and reporting to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Program management

Integrated master schedule

Earned value management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Contract management (FAR/DFARS)

Space systems experience

Customer relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Mantis Space in Albuquerque, NM seeks an experienced Space Program Manager to own cost, schedule, and technical baselines from award to on-orbit acceptance, ensuring proper reporting and decision support.

You will coordinate reviews, manage an integrated master schedule, budgets, and risk registers, while guiding cross-functional teams and external stakeholders; candidate should have 8–14 years in space programs and be eligible for US security clearance.