Senior Ground Station Deployment Manager at Elveo · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Once sites are in service, the role supports operations by coordinating physical field work. Engineering and operations diagnose issues; this role arranges the on-site fix, including teleport-provider or contractor dispatch, spares and RMAs, shipping and customs, and site access, and confirms the work is complete. Hands-on installation and maintenance labor, operations procedures, incident ownership, and management of GS engineers sit with other teams.
Core Responsibilities:
Lead site evaluation, teleport engagement, and site surveys with engineering, operations, and qualified providers, balancing coverage, antenna placement, masking, RF interference, backhaul, infrastructure, cost, expansion capacity, and schedule. Track survey findings through design decisions and corrective actions.
Lead teleport-provider technical coordination and hold vendors accountable for deliverables, quality, readiness, support commitments, and escalation paths. Provide technical input to procurement and legal on scopes of work, contracts, and SLAs.
Own the integrated deployment plan and reporting across all sites, including milestones, dependencies, procurement, logistics, contractor mobilization, budget, cost risk, and recovery plans. Establish readiness gates, risk registers, and processes to keep progress, blockers, costs, and decisions visible throughout the rollout.
Coordinate permitting, licensing, spectrum approvals, civil works, power, grounding/lightning protection, environmental provisions, backhaul, and site access with responsible specialists and site partners. Verify readiness before installation begins.
Ensure site-specific engineering packages are complete, approved, and executable before construction; review designs for constructability, maintainability, logistics, and local constraints, and control changes to approved baselines. Author installation procedures and contractor work packages from the engineering-owned design, obtain engineering approval, and update them with lessons from each installation.
Coordinate installation, integration, commissioning, and acceptance across field teams, engineering, software, vendors, and site partners. Own the FAT/SAT/OSAT framework, test planning, acceptance evidence, discrepancy tracking and closure, with technical deviations dispositioned by engineering, and sign-offs, and verify prerequisites and completion evidence before advancing a gate.
Own the operational handover package and readiness review, including as-built records, configurations, acceptance evidence, spares, maintenance arrangements, support contacts, and training coordination. Obtain engineering sign-off and receiving-operations acceptance before recommending entry into service.
After handover, coordinate physical maintenance and repair at in-service sites with operations, teleport providers, and contractors, maintain the site spares inventory and RMA pipeline, and feed recurring field issues back into the deployment playbook.
During Your First 12 Months:
Establish and execute an integrated rollout plan for the initial sites and subsequent deployment waves, with clear owners, budgets, dependencies, readiness gates, and escalation paths.

Qualification

7+ years in satellite ground segmentPrior technical leadership of teleportExperience with GSaaS providersITAR RequirementsTo comply with ULearn about ITAR here

Required

7+ years in satellite ground segment, teleport, SATCOM, or comparable distributed operational infrastructure, including substantial responsibility for technical deployment leadership, systems integration, and acceptance.
Demonstrated success delivering multiple infrastructure sites in parallel, including sites in more than one country, from site selection and acquisition through permitting, procurement, logistics, installation, commissioning, acceptance, and operational readiness.
Has personally led commissioning and acceptance testing and made evidence-based calls to hold or release a site for service.
Experience managing site partners and contractors through site acquisition, permitting, civil works, and international logistics, including knowing what to require of them and when. Familiarity with export compliance and the regulatory environment for satellite communications.
Strong technical vendor and partner leadership experience, with a track record of resolving cross-disciplinary issues and driving accountability across internal and external teams.
Sufficient technical depth in antenna/RF systems, networking, power, grounding, site infrastructure, and remote operations to challenge survey scopes, recognize incomplete designs, and engage engineering specialists effectively.
Experience managing integrated deployment schedules, budget tracking, procurement and international logistics dependencies, and contractor/vendor commitments. Willingness to travel internationally for critical site reviews, installation oversight, commissioning, and acceptance activities.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical, operational, vendor, and schedule risks into clear decision-ready updates.
Demonstrated ability to build deployment processes from the ground up, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and drive accountability across teams.
We don’t expect any one candidate to meet every qualification. If you’ve led end-to-end multi-site infrastructure deployments and want to build this program from the ground up, we’d like to hear from you.

Preferred

Prior technical leadership of teleport, ground station, antenna, satellite gateway, or SATCOM infrastructure deployments.
Experience with GSaaS providers, teleport operators, satellite operators, telecom operators, or managed network service providers.
Experience developing FAT/SAT/OSAT frameworks and leading systems qualification, test evidence reviews, discrepancy resolution, and operational handover.
Experience scaling a repeatable infrastructure rollout across countries or regions, including local contractors, customs, regulatory dependencies, and support arrangements.
ITAR Requirements:
To comply with U.S. Government export control regulations (ITAR), applicants must be one of the following: (i) a U.S. citizen or national, (ii) a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) an asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158. Individuals who do not meet these criteria must be eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. For more information, please refer to the ITAR guidelines.
Learn about ITAR here.

Senior Ground Station Deployment Manager

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Company

Elveo

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