Flight Controller Level 2 - Spacecraft Operations - Colorado Springs

Description

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grummans Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Flight Controller - Level 2 located in Colorado Springs, CO, youll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

This position will require shift work including swing or night shift, and/or 12-hr shifts

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide mission operations support to Satellite programs including flight control.
• Support system maintenance activities such as procedure updates, architecture upkeep, and formal program milestones.
• Work with systems engineers to conduct anomaly review board investigations as necessary.
• Conduct testing using simulators and resolve discrepancies.
• Develop and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation.
• Support operations readiness activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings.
• Support operations, including shift work which will include 12 hour and night shifts.
• Monitor vehicle state of health across all subsystems and perform short and long-term telemetry trending.
• Track space vehicle configuration, to include both hardware, software, and configurable item parameters.
• Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance. Develop new procedures as required.
• Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches.
• Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes.
• Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications.
• Other duties as assigned.

If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications for Level 2:

• Bachelors degree with 2 years of professional experience - OR - Masters degree with 0 years of professional experience.
• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application.
• Ability to work within a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at milestone review.
• Willingness and ability to support a 24/7 environment while working day/night 12hr shifts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies highly preferred.
• Experience writing technical documents for external customers.
• Leadership experience within a diverse team of engineers/operators.
• Ability to task and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
• Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment.
• Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW).
• Experience in ground system update and/or maintenance.
• Experience operating Tactical Space Systems bus product lines is strongly desired.
• Experience using Tactical Space Systems ground software products is strongly desired.

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