Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Flight Director – Level 3 or Level 4 located in Colorado Springs, CO, you’ll 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.

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

• Leading a diverse team of operators

• Providing mission operations support to NGSS Satellite programs. 

• Work with systems engineers to develop operational documentation for use during on-orbit checkout and commissioning of satellites. 

• Conducting testing using simulators and resolving discrepancies. 

• Developing and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation

• Developing test procedures and test execution for system level, end-to-end tests with the spacecraft.

• Supporting mission readiness activities including mission rehearsals, mission timeline development, and post launch test development.

• Monitoring vehicle state of health across all subsystems.

• Performing short and long-term telemetry trending. 

• Tracking space vehicle configuration, to include both hardware, software, and configurable item parameters. 

• Supporting anomaly resolution efforts. 

• Making modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance.  Develop new procedures as required. 

• Providing status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches.

• Providing support to multiple programs.

• Maintaining standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes.

• Providing mentoring and guidance to the mission operations team.

• Supporting 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.

This position can be filled at either a Level 3 or Level 4.

Basic Qualifications for Level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience.  Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application

• Ability to work within, task, and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.

• Experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies

• Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW).

• Experience in ground system update and/or maintenance

• Willingness and ability to support a 24/7 environment while working day/night 12hr shifts

Basic Qualifications for Level 4:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience.  Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application

• Ability to work within, task, and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.

• Experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies

• Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW).

• Experience in ground system update and/or maintenance

• Willingness and ability to support a 24/7 environment while working day/night 12hr shifts

 Preferred Qualifications:  

• Support of readiness activities to include; Mission Readiness Tests (MRTs), Mission Rehearsals (MRs), Day In The Life (DITL) and daily operations testing.

• Experience with Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPOD) systems

• Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment

• Prior experience with virtualized deployment of LINUX based ground control software onto a ground system infrastructure

• Experience with MAESTRO or RAPTOR command and control software

• Familiarity with setting up and creating training and certification program for operators

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