SLD Thermal System Engineering Operations Lead

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Operations Lead managing spacecraft thermal control system development for Lunar Permanence. Ensuring timely delivery and program efficiency as part of a team working with NASA and partners.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California, Colorado, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $121,023 - $169,432 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics
Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule
Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile
Support management of budget across all control points including driving estimate to complete assessments
Coordinate efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test
Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources
Understand and drive linkage between Material Requirements Planning system and IMS
Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools
Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of project management experience related to mechanical engineering or hardware development
Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering, business, or technical
Expertise with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar
Experience with IMP/IMS and configuration management
Experience with logic-linked scheduling
Experience with Jira
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability
401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
Education Support Program
Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours
Up to 14 company-paid holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementmechanical engineeringhardware developmentlogic-linked schedulingconfiguration managementMaterial Requirements PlanningIMSagile conceptsbudget managementestimate to complete assessments

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipproblem-solvingorganizational skillsdecision making