Benchmark Space Systems

Program Manager

• Lead the program team in developing and managing program schedules, resource plans, material procurement plans, risk analyses, and budgets
• Serve as the primary customer-facing representative
• Manage contractual requirements, change management, technical interchange meetings, program review meetings, and formal deliverables
• Oversee subcontractor and supplier performance
• Negotiate and manage statements of work
• Ensure on-time delivery of critical path items and resolve schedule or cost issues
• Coordinate program activities and communications across geographically distributed cross-functional and multi-company teams
• Conduct regular program reporting, including monthly program updates and reforecasts of labor and material spend plans
• Communicate program status and plans with internal program managers, team leaders, customers, and subcontractors
• Escalate risks, issues, and opportunities to leadership with options and a recommended path forward
• Manage detailed production schedules with Operations and Supply Chain teams when needed
• Support preparations for customer visits and meetings
• Ensure compliance with agency-specific policies and security classification guides
• Maintain Benchmark’s standards of honesty, integrity, accountability, and transparency

Spacecraft Program Manager

Systems Engineer

• Build and lead Benchmark’s new Spacecraft Systems Engineering function
• Define spacecraft-level technical integration practices across COTS components and in-house developments
• Serve as the internal technical integration point across spacecraft disciplines
• Ensure subsystem designs, interfaces, and budgets close at the vehicle level
• Own systems analysis, engineering trades, and documentation relied upon by program leadership
• Establish spacecraft systems engineering practices, artifacts, and review expectations
• Own system-level trades, requirements tracking, verification planning, interface documentation, and system budgets across spacecraft programs
• Define acceptance of vendor data versus independent analysis or test, and own verification credit rationale
• Evaluate and recommend COTS spacecraft components against program requirements and environments
• Assess vendor specifications, qualification data, and heritage claims
• Build and mentor a systems engineering team as programs and scope grow
• Collaborate across program management, engineering, operations, customers, and other departments
• Support spacecraft programs from early design through verification and delivery
• Participate periodically in integration and test areas and occasionally travel to customer and supplier sites

Spacecraft Program Manager

Lead Spacecraft Systems Engineer