Are you a bold thinker? We dream big at Sierra Space —advocating the exploration of space, keeping service members safe and creating the systems that keep our world united and sustain our way of living. Join our team!
As a Safety & Mission Assurance (S&MA) Technical Lead, you will be responsible for directing a team of system safety & reliability engineers to support various subsystems across the entire space station. You will work closely with design, requirements, supply chain, and quality teams to balance S&MA needs against program schedule and requirements, facilitate S&MA expectations against tight deadlines, and ensure that S&MA deliverable commitments are met. This position is accountable for making sure the safety efforts are prioritized, organized, on-track, and consistent with the overall mission expectations by facilitating communication up, down, and across the Sierra Space Destinations program organization.
Sierra Space, based in Louisville, Colorado with operations in Madison, Wisconsin, Durham, North Carolina, and Kennedy Space Center, Florida, designs and manufactures advanced spacecraft, satellites, propulsion and environmental systems, spacecraft subsystems and components for the U.S. government (including NASA), commercial customers and international organizations. Learn more about Sierra Space.
Must-haves:
- Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering or related discipline and typically 14 or more years of relevant experience
- Related experience may be considered in lieu of required education
- Additional education may be considered in lieu of work experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of engineering principles and practices
- Progressive experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
Preferred:
- Advanced understanding of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles
- Experience with leading baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including the use of high impact trade studies and other measures
- Experience with presenting technical content and communicating effectively to external customers.
- Ability to work with minimal information or direction to formulate proposed plans for resolving safety related design/requirement solutions.
- Experience with requirements management and system modelling tools, such as JIRA, Rhapsody, or NoMagic
- Advanced knowledge of industry-standard mechanical and electrical design principles, to include, but not limited to requirements management, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)
- Experience or certification in INCOSE standards
- Experience or certification in Project Management
- Background in the Aerospace, Defense, or Human Factors industries
- Ability to establish and track key Technical Performance Measurements (TPM)
- The ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance may be required. Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.
With 30+ years of proven spaceflight heritage, Sierra Space has provided more than 4,000 space systems, subsystems and components to customers worldwide, and participated in more than 500 missions to space, including to Mars. The company has technology in production and in development to enable space habitats for short- and long-duration space travel, a fleet of Dream Chaser spaceplanes, and the first free-flying commercial space station. Please visit http://www.sierraspace.com to learn more about Sierra Space, its business areas, capabilities, programs, products and services.