Job Description

At Vantor, you’ll work with the U.S. Space Force as part of the effort to develop and rapidly deploy the next generation of resilient Missile Warning (MW), Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (TISR), and Environmental Monitoring (EM) capabilities to deter attacks and provide critical information to our warfighters to defeat our enemies in battle. Within this role you will perform schedule planning and development efforts on Major Defense Acquisition Programs, including space, ground, software, or hardware systems. Your functional expertise, communication and collaboration skills, and attention to detail will be vital as you contribute to the acquisition and development of space sensing capabilities.

Join our team and create the future of Remote Sensing in the Space Force. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications:

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

• 4+ years of experience with systems engineering or project management, schedule planning, and development efforts on Major Defense Acquisition Programs, including space, ground, software, or hardware systems

• 1+ years of experience creating, maintaining, and updating project-based schedules including critical paths, and comparing actual progress against the baseline

• Experience developing, documenting, and executing a Lean-Agile process to establish and manage Integrated Master Schedules and technical baselines

• Experience identifying scheduling risks or conflicts and implementing remediation and mitigation plans

• Experience applying Critical Path Methodology (CPM) to identify dependencies, calculate float, and expose schedule risks.

• Experience with scheduling tools, including MS Project, Milestones Professional, One Pager Pro, and Microsoft Office tools, including SharePoint, and Excel

• Ability to gather data from multiple sources and stakeholders across the program and display it in a useful manner for the customer

• Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, Federally Funded Research and Developmental Centers, and associate contractor teammates to achieve program goals Ability to identify, document, and integrate technical and programmatic data describing systems, segments, and external drivers to review and provide input to the Integrated Master Schedule

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance

• Masters degree in a STEM field

• Experience performing systems engineering, program management, and schedule development activities on space-based remote sensing systems

• Experience using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baseline

• Experience managing annual schedule activities for remote sensing sustainment programs, working with large amounts of data, and utilizing metrics to improve processes and ensure consistency and standardization across the organization

• Knowledge of DoD 5000.01 and 5000.02

• Knowledge of space systems and their corresponding design, development, manufacturing, integration and testing, deployment, operations, and decommissioning activities

• Ability to communicate, coordinate, and concurrently manage several Program-level, Enterprise, and Integrated Master schedules

• TS/SCI clearance

• Master’s degree in an Engineering, Business, Mathematics, CS, Physics, or relevant field

• Knowledge of SPF 13-604

Clearance: Secret

The position will require at least 2-3x per week on site. Meetings/schedules may require more days on site.

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market within California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Washington:

$74,000.00 - $156,000.00 annually.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at:https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

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