Project Manager

The role

The Project Manager will define end-to-end mission concepts for NASA, government, and commercial customers. This role involves managing budgets, schedules, and technical risks for lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.

What you will do

• Develop program budgets and schedules for new concepts and designs of lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.
• Support proposal content creation for mission opportunities and internal development programs.
• Contribute to programmatic topics such as schedules, resourcing, risks, and budgets estimations.
• Communicate with other engineering disciplines, partners, customers, and vendors to resolve technical risks and challenges.
• Build out bottoms up estimates, including bill of materials, cash flow models, and labor estimates.
• Occasionally participate in visits and technical interchange meetings with customers, supply chain, and partner organizations.
• Participate in cross functional team meetings to ensure project schedules and budgets comply with mission and business needs and company technology roadmap.
• Run internal early technology development projects and paid architecture studies, performing project management over budget, schedule, deliverables, and customer interfacing.

Required qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering or similar related discipline plus 5-10 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Relevant advanced degree will be considered in lieu of equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in project or program management, project finance, and program planning.
• Experience developing programmatic content for proposals and external customer presentations.
• Experience authoring and decomposing financial and contractual volumes.
• Strong understanding of the launch, space, and lunar environments.

Nice to have

• Understanding of full development lifecycle of large complex aerospace systems.
• Experience with large NASA or other USG proposals and contracts.
• Knowledge of NASA/industry engineering standards.
• Demonstrated experience working in an agile environment, using organizational tools such as Confluence and Jira.
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families
• Flexible, affordable gym memberships
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%
• Company wellness programs
• Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. Person: a US Citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3).
• Applicants must be eligible to obtain any required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

About the company

Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company. They tackle complex challenges to deliver transformative, mission-critical solutions for ground to space.