Acquisition Professional (Space Sensing) - Developing Technologies Programs

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work”, has exciting opportunities providing Engineering solutions for innovative new-entrant space companies, as well as established space systems manufacturers, commercial space system operators and service providers, and other industry stakeholders including investors.  

At Stellar Solutions, we offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management and strategic planning. We are a leading service and expertise provider for high-tech commercial ventures, spanning communications, earth observation and remote sensing systems and data products, to the infrastructures that support earth orbiting and beyond earth orbit businesses.

Stellar Solutions is looking for an experienced and highly motivated acquisition professional to support Space Systems Command, Space Sensing Directorate in El Segundo, CA. This position provides management and advisory support in a dynamic, high-paced environment while guiding Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, and Missile Defense space and ground programs.  The acquisition support professional will be responsible for managing group interactions with a large number of stakeholders and ensuring that the government is efficiently and effectively following up and assessing the technologies that are presented. aspects of multiple satellite and associated ground programs that are geared towards providing additional warfighter capability to end users.

This acquisition professional will coordinate across the Space Sensing directorate to assure the government’s requirements are met and report to the government program manager on a regular basis as to the status of these programs.  The ideal candidate will be familiar with standard acquisition and funding processes and with program management tools such as JIRA, Confluence and MS project. 

Responsibilities Include: 

• Providing day to day management of communication with stakeholders
• Senior leader and team calendar management
• Configuration control of program documentation
• Program schedule tracking
• Working through acquisition and funding processes to enable program success under government supervision
• Work with JIRA and Confluence tools to better enable decision-making
• Familiar with TEAMS and Share Point
• Establish technical exchange meetings with other industry partners and customers
• Have collaboration skills to bring issues to closure
• Ability to work with senior military/government officials

Required Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 5 years of experience in space programs acquisitions, with familiarity with advanced tech programs
• Experience with the OPIR mission areas
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA Program portfolio management
• U.S. Citizen with Secret Clearance and with the ability to obtain Top Secret and SCI clearances
• Acquisition PM Level I equivalent

Desired Skills: 

• MS degree 
• Top Secret/SCI Clearance
• Acquisition PM Level II equivalent
• Space experience in the mission areas of OPIR
• Space operations experience
• Mission Partner/Stakeholder relations

Security Clearance & Other Requirements: 

• U.S. Citizen with Secret Clearance and with the ability to obtain Top Secret and SCI clearances
• Position is located at Los Angeles AFB, CA – Note: Position is on-site with some hybrid based on customer needs. Travel expected to be less than 10% of the time. 

Compensation:

The typical salary range for this position is USD $130,000 - $150,000 per year. Individual pay is determined by many factors including work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus, profit sharing / retirement plan and other benefits (all in addition to annual base salary).

Deliverables could be in the format of a report, software file, briefing, spreadsheet, or other document as directed by the Government, using government approved and/or mandated systems/software and processes governed by guidance/instructions/policy or direction. The nature of this work will, at times, require quick responses to stringent deadlines and always in a high quality, professional manner.