# Mission Operations Manager

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Location**: USA - El Segundo, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $149,000 - $223,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Mission Operations Manager at Millennium Space Systems, you will lead the company's Mission Operations team, reporting to the Director of Mission Operations Engineering. You will serve as a point of contact for technical, budget, and resource allocation issues to meet team members' needs, customer requirements, and company goals.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- People (25%): Conduct interviews, mentor the team, provide performance reviews, recommend promotions and raises, plan team development, and represent the team.

- Programmatic (25%): Define scope of work, staff programs, allocate staff, track team status, and evaluate performance.

- Technical (50%): Collaborate with Ground Software, System Engineering, and Program Management to design, implement, and test ground segments. Improve processes, simplify workflows, and automate repetitive tasks.

**Requirements:**

- At least one year of experience in a leadership role or completion of the Boeing internal course 'Exploring Leadership'

- A minimum of 5 years of direct experience in spacecraft mission operations and/or real-time satellite control

- Minimum of 2 years of formal leadership experience managing real-time operators, shift schedulers, and/or cross-functional mission teams

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related STEM discipline

- Master's degree or PhD in engineering or related STEM discipline or Engineering Management

- Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance

- Experience managing large-scale Low Earth Orbit (LEO) or Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations

- Prior experience working directly with military space entities

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid time off

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- spacecraft mission operations
- real-time satellite control
- security clearance

### Nice to have
- engineering
- STEM discipline
- LEO/MEO constellations
- military space entities

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