Are you dreaming about a position where you can deliver quality, meaningful results? Come be a part of our diverse, multi-disciplined team of engineers, operating in an agile environment, using the latest tools and methodologies. Develop your technical acumen as well as your leadership skills at a company with huge potential for long-term career growth. As an Engineering Manager, you will be using your skills and expertise to manage functional teams through program execution for our products and services. These cover a very wide range from advanced mission payloads and electronic systems through highly integrated aircraft to orbital and space exploration systems. You will represent the engineering department at all management level meetings. You'll ensure that the engineering design, documentation, and approvals meet the program schedules, are obtained in a timely manner and that engineering hours expended are productive, meeting program goals and budgets. You will own and continuously improve processes and procedures, oversee training of staff and provide technical direction as re

Sierra Space-based in Louisville, CO with operations in Madison, WI, Durham, NC, Huntsville, AL, Houston, TX, and Kennedy Space Center, FL-designs and manufactures the Dream Chaser spaceplane and other advanced spacecraft, commercial space destinations, satellites, propulsion and environmental systems, spacecraft subsystems and components for the U.S. government (including NASA), commercial customers, and internation

Sierra Space is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead our Mission Engineering and Analysis group. The Sr Engineering Manager - Mission Engineering and Analysis will lead a group of highly technical engineers encompassing skills in Mission Engineering, Mission Systems & Payloads Engineering, Ground Systems Engineering and Mission Mod/Sim and Analysis. As part of the greater Systems Engineering organization, the successful candidate will grow, shape and help to define Sierra Space's competencies in this area while managing the talent resources to multiple programs. The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience and expertise in Mission Engineering and Mission Analysis as well as experience leading technical teams and personnel.

Job duties will include:

Resourcing and managing personnel needs for all Sierra Space programs in the Mission Engineering and Analysis domains.

Ensuring adequate tools, processes and training are in place to enable successful Mission Engineering and Analysis execution.

Developing competencies and filling gaps within the Mission Engineering and Analysis domain and providing vision and strong leadership for the growing team.

Providing Mission Engineering and Analysis subject matter expertise at the individual and team levels to support a variety of programs, proposals and internal research and development projects across Sierra Space's growing portfolio.

Performing as a Mission Analyst subject matter expert on one or more development contracts.

Must-haves:

Bachelor's of Science degree in a related discipline and typically 12 or more years of relevant technical experience

Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practices

Extensive experience with Computer Aided Engineering tools, analysis and simulation

Ability to work in multi-disciplinary design and development teams

An active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance with SCI and SAP eligibility required

Preferred:

Typically 6-8 years of relevant leadership and/or project management experience, especially on system development programs.

Master's degree or higher in related field of study.

Functional Management experience (people, processes and tools), including experience hiring, training and mentoring technical teams.

Operational employment of and/or domain knowledge in electronic warfare, space domain awareness, electro-optical sensing, and m ssion communications

Experience evaluating sensor or weapon system performance on space-based platforms.

Experience with DoD modeling environments (Brawler, Suppressor, AFSIM, EADSIM, ESAMS, etc).

Familiarity with preparation and development of project estimates, technical proposals, and program cost and schedule management.

Experience with systems engineering management tools, such as JIRA, DOORS, GIT.

Practical knowledge of industry standard design principles, to include, but not limited to requirements management,... For full info follow application link.