Senior Program Manager

Wanna join the adventure

The role requires a highly motivated Senior Program Manager with experience in overseeing the planning execution and delivery of complex space projects. This role involves supporting the Program Manager to deliver spacecraft systems payloads and supporting the business development team as they strive to bring in new business. The ideal candidate has a background in aerospace engineering or systems management and thrives in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

About the Role:

• Support the development and maintenance of detailed project plans timelines budgets and risk management strategies.
• Support Business development activities.
• This role is required to work closely with the PM Manager Business development AIT Procurement Test Infrastructure and external partners (Loft) and sub-contractors.
• Ensure compliance with technical regulatory and quality standards (ITAR export Control).
• Track and report project performance metrics to stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Support Configuration Management in managing change requests scope modifications and project pivots.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and dependencies early.
• Support proposal development and cost estimation for future projects.

Must Haves:

• Experience in the satellite or broader space sector with strong technical grounding.
• Proven experience managing projects with budgets between $1M$10M .
• Demonstrated ability to work with Business Development teams at the bid and proposal stage.
• Solid understanding of space systems mission lifecycles and AIT (Assembly Integration and Test) processes.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project Smartsheet Jira or similar.
• Strong communication and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using PLM tools (e.g. Arena) .
• Familiarity with PDM or SolidWorks .
• Awareness of ITAR/EAR regulations and basic export control requirements.
• Prior experience with Smartsheet as a primary scheduling or tracking tool.

Orbitworks mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbitals heritage Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills
Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,Program Management,Management Experience,Microsoft Powerpoint,Project Management,Microsoft Project,Budgeting,DoD Experience,Leadership Experience,Supervising Experience,Contracts
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1