Spaceflight Mechanics Associate Director

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace's strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The divisionleveragesitsarray of engineering disciplines against abroadand dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.

As a corecomponentofthe Mission Operations Subdivision withinEED, the Emerging Missions Flight Dynamics Department provides flight mechanicsexpertiseformulti-domain effects supportingour broad customer base.Ourdepartment specializes inatmospheric flight,cislunar mission design,andmulti-objectivespacecraftmaneuverstrategies.We are looking for anAssociate Directorto helpprovide strategic vision and project leadership forburgeoning customer bases, corporate priorities, anddepartment growth areas.Coregovernment customersincludeGolden Domefor America, Missile Defense Agency,Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,NASA,and the Intelligence Community.Furthermore, opportunities exist to partner on efforts with technically adjacentfields, such asfluidmechanics,missile warning and tracking, andmulti-disciplinary design of re-entry vehicles.

Work Model

This is a full-time position based in El Segundo, CA or Colorado Springs, CO with the expectation that the selected candidatewill worka minimum of 4 days per week onsite, as the business needs allow.

WhatYou'llBe Doing

• Partner with the department director to synthesize and execute an organizational strategic vision

• Coordinate efforts of multiple department sections, partnering with those management teams

• Serve department staff through workload management, performance management, compensation assessment, staff engagement and retention, and departmentlogistics

• Mentor/coach staff for technical, leadership, and professional development

• Pursue staff and organizational enablers, notably classified ITresourcesand clearance portfolios.

• Prioritize the department's business development, capability awareness, recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding endeavors to ensure long-term organizational health and customer engagement

• Develop customer relationships andfacilitateopportunities for technical support, with a particular focus on resiliency-centric and operations-centric customer organizations

• Cultivatestate-of-the-artmodeling and simulation capabilities through strategic road mapping and by fusing customer and internal resources

• Partner with subdivision teams to provide bench depth and career growth opportunities while ensuringappropriate cross-organizationalcoordination

• Pursue multi-disciplinary opportunities to partner across the corporate engineering landscape, integrating department capabilities into broader workflows

• Travel occasionally (as necessary) to support customer efforts

What You Need to be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in applicable STEM areas

• Typically, 10years of applicable professional or educational experience is desired

• Demonstrated technicalexpertisein one or more of the following areas:orbital mechanics, flight dynamics,optimalcontrol, and numerical methods

• Demonstratedability toinitiateandleadteam efforts

• Proven ability to foster collaborative and engaging environments where teammates work across organizational boundaries

• Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and corporate needs

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and leading from the front to influence technical, customer, and enterprise service organizations

• Willingness to traveldomestically as necessary

• Current TS/SCI and/or TS/SAP access

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Advanced degree in an applicable field

• Previousmanagement experience including staff recruitment and development, performance management, conflict resolution, organizational planning, and resource management

• Proven success in cultivating new customer opportunities and delivering results

• Organizing and executing the development ofnew technologyand research efforts

• Leveraging or building analysis software to combine computational techniques and department functional areas