Responsibilities

K2 has a large set of customer and launch partners, ranging from rideshare hosted payloads to full constellation scale roll out, spanning multiple launch vehicles, procurement methods, licensing methods, and launch sites. We are looking for exceptional individuals to support all of these customer and launch partner interfaces. As a launch mission manager, you will be hands-on supporting payload, vehicle, and launch integration certification, verification, and execution actions.
You’ll own certification across multiple threads, also working closely with our internal design reliability, program managers, and leadership team. You’ll be an advocate for K2 and our customer pushing for simplification of process, implementation of lessons learned, and state of the art certification methods to enable our constellation level roll outs. You’ll work with our legal teams to enable appropriate licensing and insurance closure. You’ll work with our engineering teams to feed back best-practices and lessons learned from integrated spacecraft testing to optimize future payload missions. You’ll work with all teams to help ensure successful spaceflight outcomes.
In this position you’ll be the voice of K2 in multiple forums and efforts – ultimately being responsible for ensuring there are no certification, verification, or execution show-stoppers on day of payload integration, spacecraft testing, or launch.
Function as K2 point of contact for all things related to certification, to include range safety compliance, launch vehicle user guide compliance, ground operations plan, payload certification plan, customer to launch provider interactions, and qualification reports
Serve as launch provider point of contact, helping ensure launch vehicle ICDs are closed and verified, launch operations plan is robust, and the mission executes flawlessly
Serve as payload provider point of contact in certification forums, ensuring payload meets all applicable requirements from both K2 and the launch provider
Support payload integration readiness reviews, pre-ship reviews, launch and flight readiness reviews, in various capacities
Review and help shape future customer and launch vehicle contracts and SOWs
Shape our certification process for all of the above, helping come up with new methods for K2 to increase velocity

Principal Launch Mission Manager at K2 Space · LumiJobs

Principal Launch Mission Manager

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

K2 Space

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