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Thermal Engineering Manager – Lunar Permanence
Job in
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 35485, USA
Listed on 2026-07-13
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Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-13
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics, Systems Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Cost, schedule, and technical performance of the assemblies within the vehicle thermal subsystem, including baselining new thermal design concepts, maturing design definition and supporting DFX activities
- Technical, administrative, and performance management of a cross-functional thermal engineering team
- Development and maintenance of subsystem Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Estimate at Completion (EAC) cost tracking
- Establishment and maintenance of team processes to guide engineering activities and ensure quality deliverables aligned with critical path delivery
- Effective delegation of technical authority to team leads
- Mentorship and coaching of early and mid-career engineers, including onboarding of new team members
- Cross-functional collaboration with peer subsystem leads (Structures & Configuration, Fluids, Gas) and Systems Engineering
- Management of team focus on critical path technical challenges while maintaining cost and schedule discipline
- 8+ years of spacecraft thermal engineering experience
- 2+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Effective technical, professional, and personal communication skills across all organizational levels
- Demonstrated competency in spacecraft thermal design and thermal control systems
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate defined scopes of work and generate work plans with resource allocation
- Proven track record of on-time/on-cost flight hardware delivery
- Experience with IMS and EAC cost management processes
- 10+ years of spacecraft thermal engineering experience (Preferred)
- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience in subsystem-level roles (Preferred)
- Demonstrated expertise in spacecraft thermal design and novel thermal architecture development (Preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to reduce cost and schedule of flight hardware deliveries through DFX optimization (Preferred)
- Proven track record of developing early and mid-career engineers through effective delegation and mentorship (Preferred)
- Experience managing technical teams through design baselining and critical design reviews (Preferred)
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