Training Academy Director, Mission Systems

Aerodyne Industries, LLC

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 132,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Aerodyne Industries, LLC in Houston, TX, is seeking a Department Manager for COSMOS Training Academy at NASA's Johnson Space Center. You will lead recruitment, onboarding, and training of technical personnel to fulfill contract needs and ensure readiness for mission support roles.

The role requires developing the program, coaching managers, evaluating hires, and collaborating across management to optimize staffing, development, and succession while delivering high-quality results for the COSMOS

Qualifications

Experience with recruiting and hiring employees.
Experience with development of training programs and approaches.
Experience with objectively evaluating new hires against a variety of criteria.
Ability to collaborate with other members of management to achieve a defined staffing outcome.
Demonstrated ability to develop employees through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and rotational assignments.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to communicate effectively across organizational boundaries and with personnel at all levels.
Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage multiple competing demands, and respond effectively to rapidly changing requirements.
Strong decision making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

Recruit, identify, and hire personnel for the contract.
Set clear expectations for employees and provide timely coaching, feedback, recognition, and performance management.
Develop new hires through mentoring, coaching, training, and rotational assignments.
Evaluate employee capabilities and organizational needs to determine the best fit for assignments while supporting both the success of the contract and the development of individual employees.
Identify future leadership and technical capability needs and support employee development and succession planning.
Plan and execute onboarding and training of new personnel to ensure successful integration into the organization.
Develop relationships with external institutions, including colleges and universities, to enable timely and effective acquisition of highly talented candidates.
Ensure department processes, documentation, records, collaborative workspaces, and required management information are current, accurate, and effective.
Communicate department status, accomplishments, issues, risks, and resource needs with COSMOS management, NASA personnel, and FOD leadership as appropriate.
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and constructive challenge that encourages employees to identify and implement better ways of accomplishing the work.
Create an environment that empowers employees and team leads to bring forward new ideas, identify opportunities for improvement, appropriately challenge existing approaches, and take ownership of solutions.
Foster a collaborative work environment that promotes teamwork, open communication, trust, accountability, and effective integration across organizational boundaries.
Communicate urgent events and significant issues to appropriate leadership and stakeholders in a timely manner.
Perform other leadership, technical, operational, and administrative duties as required to support the organization and NASA mission.