Senior Manager Test Engineering
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Full Time
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Aerospace, Satellite CommunicationsIndustries
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering
- 5+ years of professional experience in a hardware manufacturing or production environment (aerospace preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to manage a lab and/or production facilities, equipment, and operations
- Proven leadership through project management, mentorship, or people management experience
- Hands-on experience working with fluid or gas feed systems
- Ability to use ERP/MES systems for creating procedures, tracking hardware and builds, and enforcing quality processes
- Strong communication (written and verbal), organizational skills, and attention to detail
- Strong fluid systems engineering intuition and critical thinking. Comfort with ambiguity and turning high-level requirements into clear design/test objectives
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Propulsion test engineers and technicians that test satellite propulsion systems, including hiring and managing direct reports
- Create and enforce quality standards and processes to ensure proper verification of unit-level and system-level hardware. Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create corrective action plans and system improvements
- Manage day-to-day activities of propulsion test, including creating processes for assigning and tracking work across production & development testing programs
- Create and enforce a culture of safety and quality throughout the workplace
- Evaluate proposed designs for testability and work closely with design engineering teams on new designs and processes to enable factory output growth targets up to 24 vehicles per year
- Create, maintain and communicate detailed schedules, ensuring your team and other stakeholders are aware of tasks and deadlines, including resource identification and acquisition
- Own the test infrastructure needed to test our current and next generation propulsion system, including factory layout, safety equipment, and test beds
- Work hands-on with flight hardware alongside your team to ensure mission success
- Develop ironbirds (test beds) for doing flight-like development and qualification testing
Skills
Propulsion Systems
Testing
Team Leadership
Hiring
Quality Standards
Root Cause Analysis
Corrective Actions
Safety Culture
Testability
Design Engineering
Process Development
Work Tracking
Satellite Hardware
Astranis
Develops low-cost telecommunications satellites
About Astranis
Astranis develops and deploys spacecraft for Geostationary Orbit, focusing on providing internet connectivity to the 4 billion people worldwide without access. The company designs, manufactures, and operates low-cost telecommunications satellites, offering bandwidth-as-a-service to commercial and government customers. This approach allows Astranis to deliver services at a lower cost than traditional providers, making it appealing for reaching new markets. With over $1 billion in satellite services sold in the past two years and plans for additional satellite launches, Astranis is positioned for growth. The company's goal is to bridge the digital divide and connect underserved populations globally.
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$587.2MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
Aerospace, DefenseIndustries
201-500Employees