Integrated Operations Visiting Vehicle Manifest Lead – HEO (Space/Satellite Systems)

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The Northrop Grumman Space (NGSP) Sector’s Integrated Operations (IOPS) team is seeking a candidate to fill the role of Visiting Vehicle Manifest Lead (VV Manifest Lead) for the NGSP Commercial Destination Free Flyer (CDFF) space station.  The IOPS team is ultimately responsible for ensuring successful spacecraft operations, including the integration and safe operations of Visiting Vehicles servicing the CDFF. The CDFF accepts the current and future set of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft capable of carrying NASA, U.S. Government, and commercial crews, cargo, and payloads. The Visiting Vehicle Manifest Lead reports to the Manager, IOPS Systems Engineering and is responsible for manifesting the crews, cargo, and payloads onto Visiting Vehicles for which NGSC contracts.  

The VV Manifest Lead must develop VV Manifest Concepts of Operations, processes, procedures, requirements, and services to satisfy customer requirements. Additionally, the Lead produces statements of work and requirements for Visiting Vehicle providers, produces Interface Control Documents (ICD), provides contract deliverables, flows safety requirements to providers, schedules Visiting Vehicle flights, and assists the CDFF IOPS Mission Operations Lead in development of Joint Integrated Operations procedures.  Finally, the VV Manifest Lead provides on-console support of all Visiting Vehicle flights to and from the CDFF.

The CDFF program is one of many NGSP Human Exploration and Operations programs which are exciting and dynamic but also provides the opportunity to work across multi-dimensional, cross-functional teams to achieve challenging goals.  Essential items for which the VV Manifest Lead is responsible:

• Gathers customer requirements for crew, cargo, experiments, and payloads, and allocates them into lower-level sets to drive CDFF designs to accommodate and satisfy those requirements.
• Supports flight operations during VV flights as required.  This may include shift work. Quiescent operations support may have reduced requirements.
• Develops, delivers, and presents VV Manifest information for all NGSP and Customer required design reviews and deliveries.
• Provides input to systems engineering teams for operational impacts to software/hardware development or modifications; and roll such engineering changes into operational products (e.g., flight rules, procedures, etc.).
• Communicating and interacting across multiple control centers and teams during real-time operations.
• The development, coordination, peer review, and release of all documented VV Manifest processes, procedures, ICDs and operations documentation.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree Aerospace Engineering, Astronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or equivalent STEM field
• 9 years with system and/or hardware design and analysis experience
• Understanding of spacecraft logistics processes
• Human Systems Interface experience.
• Payload Utilization experience.
• US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working with an existing Crew or Cargo VV provider to the ISS.
• Previous experience in spacecraft (or equivalent) operations is required.
• Previous experience in Human Space flight Operations is highly desired.
• Previous experience developing cost & schedule estimates.
• Experience with system requirement development.
• Previous experience with mission planning.
• Previous experience developing ICDs

This position may be filled at a Sr. Principal or next level depending on the skills and experience of the candidate.

This position reports to Houston, TX, USA, however, this position can also be worked from Dulles, VA, VA, USA.

Salary Range: $129,000 USD - $187,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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