Space Programs Delivery Director

Agile Space Industries, Inc.; Durango (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental and vision plans

Flexible Time Off

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Agile Space Industries, Inc. seeks a Director of Program Delivery in Durango, CO to lead complex propulsion hardware programs from concept through production and delivery.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Contracts, reporting to the COO, while ensuring customer commitments and financial outcomes. The role emphasizes leadership of a 10+ team, strategic planning, and on-time execution in a fast‑growing space company with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Administration, Program Management, or a related field.
• Fifteen or more years of experience in complex hardware development, manufacturing, or program management, including proven success delivering multi-million-dollar programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing new product development programs and taking products from development into full-rate production.
• Strong understanding of the hardware lifecycle, including requirements, design, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, testing, qualification, and delivery.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, budgets, risks, forecasts, and customer commitments.
• Proven leadership across cross-functional engineering and operations teams with strong executive and customer-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery on production programs with responsibility for cost, schedule, quality, throughput, and delivery.
• Work with the factory management team to establish delivery plans based on demand, material availability, manufacturing capacity, testing capacity, and labor.
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader during the delivery stage, providing clear and proactive communication on milestones, hardware status, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.
• Partner with Business Development, Contracts, Finance, Engineering, and Operations to create executable proposals and program baselines.
• Actively drive delivery risk burndown across technical, schedule, cost, supply-chain, production, test, and customer risk and opportunity management.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Administration, Program Management, or a related field

Job description

Agile Space Industries, Inc. seeks a Director of Program Delivery in Durango, CO to lead complex propulsion hardware programs from concept through production and delivery.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Contracts, reporting to the COO, while ensuring customer commitments and financial outcomes. The role emphasizes leadership of a 10+ team, strategic planning, and on-time execution in a fast‑growing space company with