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Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Manager to join our growing team. Reporting to the Director of Systems Engineering, the Systems Engineering Manager will manage a dynamic team of systems engineers responsible for the Design, Analysis, Integration, Verification, Validation, and Operations support of spacecrafts within Terran Orbital’s Portfolio. The Systems Engineering Manager has responsibility for a coherent set spacecrafts products and systems engineering functions that support programs and projects. The Systems Engineering Manager applies their technical and leadership skills in organizing, leading, and guiding execution of sound systems engineering principals within their responsible programs set. The Systems Engineering Manager shares their technical expertise and leadership in mentoring, training, and leading technical system designs and architectures. The Systems Engineering Manager will manage team efficacy and execution to meet the business needs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, directs, reviews, and coaches the work of engineering professional direct reports to accomplish program, project, and departmental responsibilities
• Responsible for team members support, resource planning and forecasting, skillset identification, engineering tool implementation, and product/process standardization for program level support in systems architecture, design, integration, launch, and operations
• Leads and establishes goals, objectives, and training for the team with direct impact on short- and long-term operations results
• Ensuring knowledge capture and knowledge transfer by working with and mentoring engineering members
• Executes strategies and roadmaps items for systems architecture and program level developments
• Propose and execute process improvements to maximize efficiency, quality, and technical fidelity of engineering products to support interoperability and flexible and state-of-the-art architectures
• Drive team to achieve annual goals and objectives and manage complex project and program initiatives of strategic importance to the organization
• Maintain outstanding communication with higher management and with the employees in the department
• Provide surge support in an individual contributor capacity as needed to ensure your teams responsibilities are met
• The teams the Systems Engineering Manager will lead are responsible for one or more items including:
• Designing and developing optimal space vehicle architectures and detailed mission solutions to complex space domain challenges for various remote sensing, RF, and optical applications
• Mission Concept of Operations refinement, mapping, and application
• Requirements generation, derivation, decomposition, and mapping
• System Definition Baseline configuration management and control
• Logical and Physical Architecture definitions and interface management
• System-level design activities to include State-Machines, Orbital dynamics, and Communication architectures