Mission Manager

4 weeks ago


Long Beach, California, United States Vast Full time

About the Role

Vast is seeking a highly skilled Mission Manager to support the technical and program management execution of our customers and programs involving human spaceflight. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of our programs, from launching human crew and pressurized payloads to low earth orbital destinations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end mission success, ensuring that all customer requirements are met or exceeded.
  • Act as the face of Vast to our customers, providing exceptional communication and project management skills.
  • Create and maintain overall project schedules and budgets, focusing on meeting or exceeding customer milestones and deliverables.
  • Support multiple programs and competing priorities concurrently, utilizing strong organizational and time management skills.
  • Lead technical projects from contract signature through mission completion, ensuring seamless execution and customer satisfaction.
  • Mitigate and resolve technical and programmatic issues that arise, utilizing a success-oriented approach and passion for resolution.
  • Interface with internal engineering, management, and production teams to ensure on-time execution of the mission while meeting all customer requirements.
  • Collaborate with engineering and production groups to understand vehicle readiness and how changes impact requirements, vehicle risk, and launch dates.
  • Work closely with the Business Development team to support proposal generation and coordinate mission activities with overall business activities in an as-needed sales engineer role.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or science.
  • 5+ years of industry experience, with a focus on technical project management and hands-on experience with hardware or software technical projects.
  • Experience acting as the primary interface of a company and program to an external customer, with a strong understanding of U.S. Government customers and NASA.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline.
  • Experience with human spaceflight missions and working with technically competent customers within aerospace projects.
  • Professional experience working with leading U.S.-based launch suppliers and excellent technical writing skills, especially involving multi-party interface specifications.
  • Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding start-up atmosphere.
  • Excellent communication skills to deal with the customer at the technical and management level, as well as our internal engineering and production team.

Additional Requirements

  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
  • Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones.


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