Space Systems Project Manager for Launch and Hardware

InvestedintheMission; Washington; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) and matching

Stock Purchase Program

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

BlackSky is seeking a Space Systems Technical Project Manager to lead design, buy, build, and test activities within the structures subsystem for satellite programs. You will own integrated plan development, risk management, and cross-functional coordination with engineering, procurement, and production teams.

The role requires strong MS Project/JIRA skills, 3+ years PM experience, and willingness to travel up to 25% for supplier activities and launches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Three years of direct Project Management Experience or related experience.
• Experience working on projects involving significant mechanical and wire harness part design and complex systems with hardware and integrated software dependencies.
• Highly skilled at MS project and managing schedules with critical dependencies.
• Experience working with integrated product teams.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Experience managing budgets and resource planning.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% to support supplier activities and launch.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the full scope of design, buy, build, and test within the structures subsystem and launch verification and test campaigns, managing both internal and external efforts.
• Develop integrated plans and schedules, obtaining buy-in from engineering, program management, procurement, and production stakeholders.
• Own daily tasking and deconfliction of activities within areas of responsibility.
• Support task management for the engineering team including risk and integrated schedule management for the program for subsystem development of the satellite and key hardware.
• Interface with the engineering teams to evaluate compliance with the specification and opportunities to improve the subsystem to benefit business and schedule performance.
• Track action items and schedules across engineering teams, including maintaining accurate logs of design release status.
• Coordinate with the procurement team to support ordering and receipt of build-to-print parts in support of the broader build schedules.
• Align timeline for testing, analysis, and qualification to support structural evaluation of components.
• Drive technical communications with the larger technical teams and engineering leadership to shape the development framework to support test, qualification, and launch planning.
• Shepherd the engineering team through milestones such as Preliminary Design, Critical Design, Test Readiness, and early production deliveries.
• Support supply chain in understanding engineering changes, performance, and key dependencies for supplier test and delivery schedules.
• Support the entire development lifecycle for optimization and identify design and decision gates along with developing the associated criteria.
• Support qualification testing, testing review, and set up, as well as own the programmatic timeline for component testing.
• Manage reports and support development of standard documentation with respect to satellite qualification and flight testing.
• Interface with the full system level schedule and identify key milestones to manage risk.
• Support development of launch schedules and planning for launch campaigns
• Facilitate and become an expert in satellite site testing including developing training material for other team members.

Skills

MS Project

JIRA

Scheduling

Budget management

Integrated product teams

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

BlackSky is seeking a Space Systems Technical Project Manager to lead design, buy, build, and test activities within the structures subsystem for satellite programs. You will own integrated plan development, risk management, and cross-functional coordination with engineering, procurement, and production teams.

The role requires strong MS Project/JIRA skills, 3+ years PM experience, and willingness to travel up to 25% for supplier activities and launches.