Lead, Systems Engineer - Space Vehicle Operations and Training Lead

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• Job Title:
  
  Lead, Systems Engineer – Space Vehicle Operations & Training Lead
• Job Code: 45908
• Job Location:
  
  Palm Bay, Florida
• Job Schedule:
  
  9/80 (Every Other Friday Off!)

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Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Space Vehicle Operations & Training Lead to provide technical leadership for Low-Earth-Orbit Operations (LEOPS) supporting a constellation of developmental spacecraft. This position will lead the development and execution of spacecraft operations, operating procedures, training products, and mission-support documentation while providing day-to-day technical directions to the LEOPS operations team.

The selected candidate will serve as a key interface between Space Operations, Engineering, Program Management, and the customer to ensure operational products, training requirements, and Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables are developed, integrated, and delivered in support of program milestones and mission execution.

The position requires an experienced space operations professional capable of leading multidisciplinary teams in a high-tempo environment while maintaining the technical rigor required for safe and effective spacecraft command and control. The candidate will also support and sustain on-site 24 × 7 LEOPS activities during designated mission periods.

• Lead the LEOPS team and provide day-to-day technical guidance, mentorship, prioritization, and coordination of spacecraft operations activities.
• Direct the development, technical review, validation, configuration control, and release of spacecraft operating procedures, training curricula, lesson materials, and mission-support documentation.
• Lead development and maintenance of operations and training products supporting spacecraft initialization, checkout, commissioning, nominal operations, contingency operations, and anomaly response.
• Author, maintain, coordinate, and control LEOPS-related CDRL deliverables, ensuring products meet contractual, technical, schedule, and customer requirements.
• Serve as the primary Space Operations interface for Integrated Mission System (IMS) inputs, ensuring assigned activities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are accurately represented and delivered on schedule.
• Coordinate across Space Vehicle Engineering, Ground Systems, Mission Planning, Training, Systems Engineering, Program Management, and customer organizations to ensure operational readiness.
• Support spacecraft command-and-control activities, including telemetry monitoring and analysis, commanding, mission planning, contact execution, and anomaly resolution.
• Lead technical reviews of operating procedures and training products to ensure accuracy, completeness, configuration alignment, and operational usability.
• Identify operational risks, training gaps, procedure deficiencies, and integration dependencies and coordinate corrective actions with appropriate stakeholders.
• Support test, rehearsal, certification, and mission-readiness activities leading to spacecraft launch and on-orbit…