Spacecraft Operations Manager

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a venture company that is actively addressing the planet's space debris problem by making serious strides in removing space debris from the planet's orbit. They also collaborate with other companies, organizations, and government agencies in a joint effort to formulate guidelines and laws for responsible space exploration and use.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning, developing, testing, training, and staffing a 24hr satellite operations team.
• Manage, establish and maintain work plans and schedules, costs / budgets of Spacecraft Operations group in accordance with agreement with related projects. Closely monitor work progress and expenses within the group.
• Manage, establish and maintain group-level resourcing plan. Identify resource needs and proactively find inhouse and outsource resources to cater the needs.
• Act as a hiring manager for Spacecraft Operations group as necessary to hire new engineers.
• Work with relevant project managers and other group managers to discuss and define project-wide resourcing plan.
• Perform regular appraisals for the group members. Mentor the members and support them for career growth. Provide trainings for them if needed.
• Work with procurement and subcontracting functions to: a) outsource design / analysis activities, b) outsource operators, c) software licenses, and anything necessary for Spacecraft operations system.
• Closely monitor progress of the suppliers / subcontractors, to check deliverables from them.
• Work with global teams to assist in generation of bids and proposals by utilizing the expertise of the Spacecraft Operation group.
• Work with quality assurance functions to promote high quality, low cost and time-efficient spacecraft operations.

Requirements

• Experience in managing a small-to-mid size engineering team for over 7 years.
• Experience in managing operation of mission critical systems in aerospace industry.
• Experience of writing technical specifications at various levels, from high-level requirement specification to low-level detailed specifications.
• Experience of hands-on practices in spacecraft in-orbit operations.
• Understanding of spacecraft systems, mission control systems, and ground stations.
• Working experience on quality assurance process for operation of large-scale mission critical systems.
• Experience in cross-cultural work environment
• English language capability TOEIC 700+.
• Japanese native or JLPT N1.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge in the areas of debris removal, end-of-life, in-orbit servicing.
• Experience on design and develop of spacecraft tracking and control systems
• Experience on in-orbit operation of RPO (Rendezvous and Proximity Operation) systems.
• Experience in developing spacecraft operation or simulation software.

Salary

6 - 10 million yen

Location

Tokyo