What You’ll Do:

As the Field Systems Manager, you will be a foundational team member for our space surveillance business, leading a team of telescope technicians to ensure successful installations, operations, and sustainability of electro-optical systems for the Slingshot Global Sensor Network. This role will include managing lab assembly, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting of electro-optical equipment, as well as planning and executing on-site installations at observatory sites worldwide.  Throughout this work, you will be a safety champion for your team and actively improve upon our processes to promote the continuous maturation of our products. Your impact will span the team, the data production for our customers, and even the safety of the space environment.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include intellectual agility, the ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance orientation, and industry expertise.

Location: This position requires on-site work in our Fort Collins, CO facility.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Leads a team of technicians in building and maintaining a premiere global sensor network
• Serves as the primary point of contact for Global Sensor Network hardware installations, system production, and equipment operations
• Plans and coordinates for new fielded system deployments
• Ensures the operational reliability of the network, minimizing and iteratively improving upon processes to reduce downtime
• Develops and maintains process documentation for safely building and maintaining our sensor systems
• Builds and executes budgeted maintenance plans to preemptively prevent network outages
• Serves as a safety champion, ensuring the environment, equipment, and job sites are properly prepared and maintained, and supervising and teaching colleagues how to stay safe in executing their work
• Proactively solves sensor system issues, working collaboratively across teams as necessary to pull in expertise
• Establishes, supervises, and controls the assembly and testing processes in Slingshot’s facilities
• Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)

Pre-Requisites

• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Astronomy, or related field
• Experience managing assembly of complex electronic and/or mechanical systems
• 10+ years of experience with electro-optical and/or electromechanical systems with at least 3 years of experience managing a team
• Certification experience in OSHA 10 
• Knowledgeable in working with high voltage (220v) systems 
• Experience with MS Office products
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Able to travel up to 25% of the time, often to international observatory sites.

Preferred Skills

• Engineering or similar technical background with strong technical troubleshooting skills
• Existing knowledge of optical telescopes, robotic enclosures, camera systems, and compute equipment.
• Early-stage startup experience in the aerospace industry
• Familiarity with sensor site evaluation and equipment installation
• Experience with ISO manufacturing compliance standards
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• OSHA 30 safety certification

These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules.. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed - if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.  

Location:  On-site in Fort Collins, CO

Salary Range: $115,000 - $150,000 annually