Iridium Satellite

Iridium’s mission is to create and enable innovative connectivity solutions for individuals, organizations, and governments all over the world.

 

Iridium is committed to being a fulfilling and rewarding place to work where people are proud of what they do and are inspired to be the best they can be. We are committed to helping our employees and their families lead healthy, productive lives.

 

Some of our benefit offerings include:
    ● Competitive, market-driven salaries

    ● Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

    ● Health Savings Account (HSA) / Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

    ● Annual Bonus Plan and Annual Merit Increase Opportunities

    ● Employee Equity Awards

    ● Retirement 401(k) Plans and Employer Matching

    ● Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

    ● Education Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement

    ● Career Development & Training Assistance

    ● Charitable Grants and Donation Matching Program

    ● Vacation, Sick Days, Floating Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off

    ● Paid Holidays

    ● Paid Parental Leave

    ● Headspace Membership

 

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Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe
Job ID 2024-3495
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a talented and motivated ServiceNow Administrator to join our team! ServiceNow is a cloud computing software service that provides a host of applications to our customers. As a ServiceNow Administrator, you will assist with designing, developing, building, and customizing applications as well as provide support responsibilities to end-users of the software. You’ll work closely with other IT specialists to ensure that solutions are implemented uniformly across the network. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy a fast-paced environment and have the ability to apply a technical mindset to problem solving and current process analysis.   What You’ll Do: - Administer, configure, extend, and maintain Iridium’s ServiceNow platform - Contribute to the team that is responsible for working closely with management and end-users to drive business performance through process automation - Coordinate and work ServiceNow service requests daily, creating and updating all tickets in ticketing software; conduct follow up calls; perform tests and troubleshooting - Participate in Agile software development ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, and retrospectives - Perform QA testing for system upgrades and enhancements - Participate in creating and maintaining integrations between systems and execute new reporting requests
Category
Information Technology
Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe
Job ID 2024-3492
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a talented and motivated entry level Technical Support Specialist to join our Customer Care team. As a Technical Support Specialist, you will contribute to providing level two support and troubleshooting to Iridium’s global network. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience in Iridium voice and data products and services while making a meaningful impact on providing 24x7  customer care to our service providers and internal customers. You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving problems and providing quality customer service.   What You’ll Do: - Contribute to the team that is responsible for providing second level support and troubleshooting to Service Providers and Customers for all Iridium voice and data products and services - Work collaboratively with team members and other departments - Assist with responding to general inquiries received from the Iridium public website - Provide second level support and troubleshooting to Service Providers and Customers for all Iridium voice and data products and services - Assist in timely resolution of reported issues while documenting and tracking in the appropriate databases - Participate in the testing of new Iridium products, services, apps and firmware prior to commercial introduction
Category
Customer Service/Support
Job Locations US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3491
What We’re Looking For: If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies, we want to hear from you!  We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Aireon/Iridium HPOC Development team. As the Principal Software Engineer, you will apply advanced expertise in cutting edge technologies to develop and deploy Aireon/Iridium payload ground control software and supporting user service capabilities. You will also provide expertise and peer mentorship within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts and collaboration across design and full stack development activities.   What You’ll Do: - Lead collaborative efforts and initiatives with the Aireon/Iridium development and engineering team to develop new ground software components founded upon modern languages and deployment techniques - Develop optimized code for both scalability, performance, and availability in support of customer concepts, requirements, and operational use cases - Independently deliver results following Aireon processes for prioritization, configuration management, risk management, and software development processes. - Proactively prototype, build, and test software implementations to roadmap design and implementation concepts to production - Develop software within the Aireon-defined Agile/Scrum framework and DevOps Azure development environment - Plan and execute software releases, providing input into stakeholder/program planning, schedules, and budgets - Confidently present complex information to groups outside of your team through briefings, demonstrations, and documentation covering planned implementation, or issue resolutions, with limited preparation - Utilize your expertise with cloud and on-premises computing to architect and deploy geographically diverse high available micro-service solutions - Leverage knowledge to make enhancements to process/procedure/training documentation and identify technical training needs - Mentor junior level developers in the design and implementation approaches - Deliver constructive, meaningful feedback and proactively offer guidance and knowledge-sharing with team members
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-VA-Leesburg | US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3487
What We’re Looking For: If you are passionate about space and deploying disruptive space technology, you’ll be excited about the Principal Mission Management Systems Development Engineer position for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Principal Engineer on the Mission Management team, you’ll be responsible for managing multiple activities and projects, including those with cross-functional teams, to deliver customer-driven Mission Planning, Flight Dynamics, and Ground Systems Management Systems. In this role, you will work alongside a team of Engineers to build and deliver state-of-the-art Mission Management Systems that wow our customers. To thrive, you’ll need a breadth of knowledge in Mission Planning and Ground System software development.   What You’ll Do: - Lead the development of Mission Planning software and enhance existing software capabilities to meet the requirements of the SDA project - Lead collaborative efforts and initiatives with the Mission Management team and other software team members to develop ground software components founded upon modern industry standard platforms, languages, and deployment techniques - Prioritize software development objectives within the Iridium-defined Agile/Scrum framework - Plan and execute software releases, providing input into stakeholder/program schedules and budgets - Provide technical and analytics support to stakeholders to promote informed decision making - Leverage knowledge to assist in ground system operations process/procedure/training documentation and identify technical training needs - Deliver constructive, meaningful feedback and proactively offer guidance and knowledge-sharing with team members - Coordinate with stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, identify and mitigate technical risks, and remove barriers to success
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-VA-McLean
Job ID 2024-3482
What We’re Looking For: As the Senior Manager, Tax, you will lead a variety of domestic and international tax matters.  In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to manage and lead members of the tax team as well as work with and lead projects involving a variety of cross-functional teams.  You’ll report to the Vice President of Tax and will be responsible for a variety of US Federal, state and international tax matters, ASC 740, Sarbanes Oxley compliance as well as ad hoc special projects, corporate and partnership taxation and other items as appropriate.  We are a small, hands-on, highly technical tax department looking for someone eager to develop their career as an integral member of our leadership team.   What You’ll Do: - Foster and develop highly effective members of the Tax team of through training, mentoring and coaching. - Mentor and train your team by performing regular check-ins, discussing career growth opportunities, giving constructive feedback, and managing conflict when necessary - Responsible for proactive tax planning to minimize global taxes and insourced and outsourced tax compliance engagements - Work extensively with cross functional teams, leveraging breadth of knowledge to make decisions - Lead technical research and planning in all areas of taxation including US Federal, state and international tax for corporations and partnerships - Manage relationships within the organization as well as with one or more joint ventures with a willingness to manage relationships with other investors in the joint venture  - Present complex topics and results related to tax to your team and those outside of your immediate team - Lead cross-functional teams on a variety of tax and non-tax projects as well as manage outside relationships with service providers - Guide and teach junior members of the team to take on more responsibility
Category
Accounting/Finance
Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe
Job ID 2024-3479
What We’re Looking For: Are you a driven Program Controller with a passion for leading projects to successful completion? If so, we have an opportunity that will launch your career into the stratosphere! Iridium is seeking a talented and experienced Program Controller III to join our dynamic team. As a Program Controller III, you will work alongside our senior program controllers and managers, guiding the program manager and team members to success. You'll be responsible for communicating program status and key dependencies, implementing cost and schedule processes, and ensuring effective program controls. If you're a proactive problem solver with excellent communication and organizational skills, this is the opportunity for you to shine! Apply now and take your career to new heights.   What You’ll Do: - Work collaboratively to create and maintain weekly status for project schedules including critical path analysis, look ahead reports, and baseline vs. actual reports - Assist in the creation of MS Project PPM and Power BI reports, keeping the reports up to date - Maintain monthly project status for project budgets including financial baseline vs. actual costs, variance analysis, and purchase order closures - Monitor the progress of a portfolio of project plans, budget and cost tracking, as well as resource demand vs. capacity management - Communicate at all levels of the organization on all matters related to the project (project plan, risk analysis, issues, and scope definition) - Assist in process definition and documentation including workflow diagrams and other visuals to represent processes - Provide guidance to project personnel regarding best practices and make recommendations based on project specific requirements
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3474
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking an exceptional and experienced Engineer to help lead research, development, testing, and sustaining engineering activities of Iridium services and ground communications infrastructure. As an Engineer III, you will contribute to the research, development, testing, and sustaining of engineering activities of the Iridium services and ground communications infrastructure. Working in this role, you’ll assist in verifying the reliability and robustness of Iridium products and communication services and will participate in the development activities related to our test automation efforts. Demonstrated work experience in engineering practices and software/hardware testing and a desire to build leadership skills are necessary for success in this position. The ideal candidate will have a vested interest in the long-term success of their work with a keen desire to learn and be highly self-reliant.   What You’ll Do: - Use depth of knowledge to solve problems and offer creative solutions by becoming a technical leader within the organization. - Recreate reported software and/or hardware non-conformances using test infrastructure and document non-compliances - Play a key role in Identifying and developing processes, procedures, tools and/or scripts to maximize system uptime and operational efficiency - Learn the details and protocols of the Iridium satellite constellation and ground systems to accurately and quickly identify issues and defects. - Develop and maintain test plans, procedures, and product documentation - Analyze test results, generate and present reports based on test execution and analysis - Work with industry standard tools and software such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Amazon Web Services, CI/CD DevOps pipelines, containers and more.
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe | US-VA-McLean
Job ID 2024-3472
What We’re Looking For: If you are someone who can dive into a role where you'll independently manage your workload, with a special focus on stock plan administration and ensuring strict adherence to internal policies and regulations, check out this opportunity on the Iridium Total Rewards team! Join us in the dynamic realm of compensation planning, contributing your knowledge to refine and optimize our strategies. It's time to bring your skills to a role that promises challenge and impact!   What You’ll Do: - Administer compensation programs, including merit, bonus, and equity components, - Actively participate in equity planning, utilizing previous experience in stock plan administration - Prepare and provide information to employees about stock plan eligibility, vesting schedules, and exercsie process - Manage day-to-day operations of the stock plans, including equity grants, exercises, and releases, preparing grants and processing employee transactions - Participate in other compensation related activites such as proposals, job evaluations, promotion requests, and salary surveys - Respond to employee inquiries regarding equity and compensation programs while providing excellent service to team members at all levels - Support HR reporting and analytics, ensuring quality data and metrics are available for business needs, including data analysis - Stay updated on changes in regulations and compliance requirements affecting stock plans - Participate in HR projects, contributing to initiatives with a focus on project tasks and deliverables, demonstrating a willingness to learn and grow in the role
Category
Human Resources
Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe | US-VA-McLean
Job ID 2024-3467
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a Senior Database Administrator Lead to join our Network Operations and Development team. As a Senior Database Administrator Lead, you’ll be responsible for identifying and autonomously implementing ideas and solutions, and maintaining advanced system knowledge in MySQL and MSSQL databases and related technologies. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience in prioritization, delegation, team leadership and planning while making a meaningful impact on service delivery. You’ll be successful in this role if you enjoy learning and adapting to a fast paced environment where you can use multiple skills to deliver high quality solutions.   This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).   What You’ll Do: - Identify and implement areas for improvement in the gateway database environment - Lead, mentor, and serve as escalation point for service interruptions for the gateway computer systems team, creating reports, responding to and remediating events - Work with the team to develop, draft and organize documentation of the gateway database environments at IST (Iridium Satellite Tempe), TSC (Technical Support Center), and SNOC (Satellite Network Operations Center) - Create reports that meaningfully convey technical information to non-technical decision makers - Build relationships with NIC (Network Infrastructure Commercial), enterprise, systems engineering, and gateway engineering teams as well as upper management - Conduct Linux administration activities and manage development, test, and production MySQL database - Posses the ability to take unstructured record data, automate data insertion, create and manage databases to support user queries - Create and model database schemas into models and diagrams of user community - Manage and coordinate all commercial database setup and configuration including installation and security configuration - Lead multiple infrastructure planning and implementation including instance strategy, technical platform selection, architecture design, backup and recovery strategy - Perform regular backup and recovery operations on production database using appropriate tools on Linux system - Create development, integration, Quality Assurance (QA), and production databases and configure/setup database monitoring and backup related jobs
Category
Information Technology
Job Locations US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3465
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Automation Software Engineering team. A Senior Software Engineer is expected to be a technical leader: designing, writing, and reviewing software, setting up and maintaining framework infrastructure, and aiding others throughout our agile development cycle. In this role, you’ll gain valuable experience designing and developing automation for interdisciplinary projects and supporting team members with day-to-day activities. You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy software engineering, design, DevOps, research, deep-dive troubleshooting, and detail-oriented tasks in both individual and team-based settings. What You’ll Do: - Work as a team member in developing software on assigned projects - Work with industry standard tools and software such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Amazon Web Services, CI/CD pipelines, event-driven messaging, containers and more - Participate in an Agile software team to collaborate and coordinate with team members on a variety of tasks including: - Software architecture design - API definition, design, and implementation - Virtualization and containerization - Automation framework infrastructure deployment - Hardware communications - Data transformation and visualization - Lead development tasks in a team environment - Solve complex problems and offer creative solutions by becoming a technical leader within the automation organization - Translate User Stories into specific actionable tasks - Review team member’s code and deliver constructive, meaningful feedback and proactively offer guidance and knowledge-sharing with colleagues/team members - Provide suggestions and assist in developing processes that reduce code cycle time, improve coding standards, and implement best practices for development - Maintain and expand existing software tools, lab environment, and hardware components. - Create documentation that clearly presents complex information - Learn the details and protocols of the Iridium satellite constellation and ground systems to better assist the internal Iridium teams What You’ll Need to Succeed: - An analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with solutions - Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present data and analyses - Confidence and comfort to proactively communicate both upward and downward by identifying possible issues or blockers before they manifest - Effectiveness managing and prioritizing assignments/workload for self and occasionally other team members - The desire to work in a collaborative environment with team members - Self-motivated, results-driven with a strong sense of ownership - Exhibit proactive behavior in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge - Demonstrated active listening with substantive, thought-provoking questions - Must have a passion for research and continuous innovation
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AZ-Chandler | US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3462
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a lead Systems Engineer to direct the development of the Radio Access Network (RAN) for Iridium’s new portfolio of 3GPP services. As the technical lead you will be responsible for all aspects of the RAN development including segment level architecture, interfaces, and modification of existing Iridium components. In addition, you will lead the team in fast-paced prototyping of the RAN system. This will require the ability to deliver high-quality results in a CI/CD environment and the ability to provide complex solutions that support 3GPP standards and Iridium’s unique requirements. You’ll be successful in this role if you have extensive experience as a Systems Engineer and expertise in the Iridium System and in 3GPP technology.   What You’ll Do: - Lead the RAN technical team development on all aspects of design, prototyping and implementation - Lead the team in the practice and implementation of CI/CD as well as SAFe®/AGILE practices - Work with different stakeholders, segments and sub-contractors to ensure that the development remains on-track and delivers a high quality product - Oversee generation, management, analysis and decomposition of RAN requirements, capabilities, features and user stories - Use subject matter expertise to drive and define line of business/functional knowledge, ensuring system engineering best practices and processes are applied to RAN development effort - Be responsible for exercising technical authority over areas within the RAN segment - Conduct required system analysis and trade studies, analyzing multiple data sources to respond to frequent, complex, and high impact situations What You’ll Need to Succeed: - The ability to confidently drive discussions, raise support for key ideas, and tailor your communication style to a wide range of audiences - The creativity, resourcefulness, and decisiveness needed to manage risks and respond to critical situations - Ability to manage multiple or complex projects while adhering to deadlines and budget limitations - Be a strategic thinker who demonstrates good judgment and decisiveness - The ability to thrive in a dynamic environment by handling multiple tasks according to deadline and budget limitations
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AL-Redstone Arsenal
Job ID 2024-3461
What We’re Looking For: If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Engineer I, Mission Planner opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Mission Planner, you’ll autonomously participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the Operations Center in Huntsville, AL. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.   This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).   What You’ll Do: - Assist your team in the scheduling of all satellite and ground resources to accomplish mission objectives; help with performing activity deconfliction, resource allocation, and determining optimal load balancing for traffic on the network - Participate in creating, validating, and distributing all necessary products for the network including satellite and ground site schedules, antenna acquisition tables, and satellite routing almanacs - Work closely with other teams to incorporate and deconflict maintenance events and special scheduling tasks - Play a role in crafting the development and maintenance of Mission Planning procedures - Continuously look for ways to improve tools and processes for streamlined operations
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AL-Redstone Arsenal
Job ID 2024-3459
What We’re Looking For:   If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Engineer III, Mission Planner opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Mission Planner, you’ll participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the Operations Center in Huntsville, AL. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.   This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).   What You’ll Do: - Perform the scheduling of all satellite and ground resources to accomplish mission objectives; perform activity deconfliction, resource allocation, and determine optimal load balancing for traffic on the network - Create, validate, and distribute all necessary products for the network including satellite and ground site schedules, antenna acquisition tables, and satellite routing almanacs - Work closely with other teams to incorporate and deconflict maintenance events and special scheduling tasks - Take an active role in the development and maintenance of Mission Planning procedures - Continuously look for ways to improve tools and processes for streamlined operations
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-VA-McLean | US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3454
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a Project Management Associate Director who is ready to rise to the next level in their career. As a Project Management Associate Director, you will be in charge of one or more high priority projects within the Technology Development and Operations (TDO) organization. In this role, you will lead, mentor, and supervise a team of assigned engineers and contractors in a project or project portfolio of new revenue generating services for the company. This role has a high degree of collaboration with other teams in order to deliver successful solutions and navigate interdependencies in a matrix environment. If you are excited by working on cutting edge communications technology, can provide clear and consistent communication and have a passion for development and for leading your fellow employees, then we want to talk to you.   What You’ll Do: - Manage a portfolio of related projects or a single large project, typically of portfolio/project value > $25M - Be responsible for project planning, including schedules, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities and defining processes required for projects or portfolios of projects - Oversee financial performance, including seeking approvals and management of project budgets - Be in charge of resource planning and management, which includes coordinating the project team and resolving team conflicts as well as leading project teams to fulfill the project mission and meet project goals - Be accountable for the resolution of significant issues and risks and implement lessons learned. This includes helping technical teams work through tradeoffs between schedule, cost and capabilities. - Provide status reports for complex project and project schedules, leading internal and external teams to execute the full spectrum of the project - Complete project ownership from concept, award (for externally funded projects), through planning and final delivery while actively managing quality and financial performance of assigned projects - Formulate project execution including gates, milestones, deliverables, and acquisition including make or buy decisions, subcontracting, etc. - Participate in major milestone meetings with internal or external customers (ex. SRR, CDR, FAT) and senior officials to communicate status and/or implement Agile or Scaled Agile development practices - Portray the company's expectations and requirements to the engineering, development, test, and deployment teams to ensure alignment - Initiate pro-active correspondence to communicate project status, on-going financial viability, and identification of key issues to senior management - Work with other project/program managers to support the development, documentation, and training of Project Management best practices
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-AZ-Tempe
Job ID 2024-3447
What We’re Looking For: If you have 5+ years of experience in accounting, then you will be excited about the Project Accounting opening with Iridium.  In this role, you will be a critical member of the Project Accounting Team and you’ll deliver high-quality work that includes the ownership of the Company’s projects in accordance with company policies and procedures.  In this role you will directly support the Company’s Government contracts as well as provide support for internal efforts incluidng Capital, R&D and operating projects.  You will thirive if you are a self-starter, detail-oriented, great at developing relationships and passionate about helping others succeed.   What You’ll Do: - Perform Government Contract Accounting support - Prepare, analyze and review journal entries including cost accruals, amortizations, allocations and revenue recognition - Ensure compliance with labor reporting (timesheets) to company policies - Review travel expenses reports and purchase requisitions for allowability to Government programs - Review accounting records and financial reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance - Prepare, maintain and present various reports, schedules, and analysis in support of Government programs - Support Project Management with technical guidance on actual project costs, forecasts and EAC’s - Provide support for internal and external inquiries, reports, and audits as well as any tax, government related documentation and support - Ensure adherence to established internal controls, and GAAP - Project stewardship of Government, Commercial and Internal Projects - Review and approve new project requests: research and document accounting classifications - Setup projects in the accounting systems, ensure proper overhead rates are applied, ensure proper access for employees and contractors, ensure proper margin rates - Maintain project access lists, project ownership assignments, active project listings - Communicate with the business on project status, track expected completion dates and ensure any construction-in-progress assets are placed in service as appropriate - Develop, implement, and improve processes and procedures and initiate corrective actions - Build and maintain relationships with internal customers ensuring open lines of communication and follow through on requests or suggested solutions
Category
Accounting/Finance
Job Locations US-VA-McLean | US-VA-Leesburg
Job ID 2024-3440
What We’re Looking For: Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Reporting to the VP, HR this role will play a key role in defining the Company's approach to compensation, benefits and total rewards for our people. The ideal candidate is someone who cares deeply about designing and maintaining programs that attract, reward and retain the best talent and thrives in coaching and developing a team of HR professionals.   What You’ll Do: - Foster and develop a highly effective team of HR professionals to manage and improve our HR processes and ensure we are delivering a great employee experience - Mentor and train your team by performing regular check-ins, discussing career growth opportunities, giving constructive feedback, and managing conflict when necessary - Manage and oversee compensation, benefits and total rewards programs for Iridium, including base pay, bonuses, incentive plans, and equity - Develop and define creative solutions that support and align with corporate objectives - Establish, design and maintain reporting to validate effectiveness of strategies; conduct in depth analysis of current programs and recommend and implement new or modified compensation, benefits and total rewards programs to remain competitive - Oversee the participation in compensation/benefit surveys, monitor survey data and create benchmarking models to illustrate trends and ensure corporate compensation objectives are achieved - Lead relationships with external vendors including benefit broker. - Serve as the resource to leadership, HR Business Partners, the HR team and the business on all benefits and compensation-related processes, programs and issues; - Work collaboratively with the HR business partner, talent acquisition and operations teams to ensure programs meet Iridium’s needs - Ensure compliance with various employment laws, EEO regulations, and organizational policies
Category
Human Resources
Job Locations US-AZ-Chandler
Job ID 2024-3438
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineer within our Systems Integration & Test engineering team who will perform requirements analysis, test planning, test case development on new products and services; perform systems level testing and end-to-end analysis; and support team members with advanced systems knowledge. The Senior Engineer will be able to; work with limited direction; independently document and present results and troubleshoot issues. What You’ll Do: - Apply knowledge of systems level testing by performing test planning, procedure development, test execution, analysis, and issue resolution for all aspects of the Iridium system including but not limited to: - Testing of satellite payload communications systems - Iridium GSM based telephony and services - Space Vehicle (SV) to L-Band subscriber equipment - Space flight vehicle bus/platform operations - Ground network configurations and SV command and control - Conduct requirements analysis and decomposition of systems requirements into verifiable test objectives - Actively participate in activities to define, configure, and maintain lab environments - Support customers and team members to achieve project delivery milestones - Perform and implement continuous improvement processes that reduce test cycle time and improve product quality, and implement best practices - Create documentation that clearly presents complex information in a discernable manner
Category
Engineering
Job Locations US-VA-Leesburg | US-AZ-Chandler | US-Remote
Job ID 2024-3432
What We’re Looking For: If you are looking for a collaborative work environment where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world, then you will be excited about joining Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. Iridium is seeking an experienced, self-motivated, and disciplined Earned Value Management (EVM) Subject Matter Expert (SME) to drive EVM operations and manage program cost and schedule inputs within the EVM Cost Tool. This opportunity collaborates directly with the Program Management Leadership and interfaces with multiple Program Managers (PM) to facilitate effective and efficient cost and schedule data integration, validation, and analytics. You will thrive in this role if you consistently deliver high quality work, anticipate program needs, and independently drive projects to completion.   What You’ll Do: - Play a key role in program establishment and planning - Develop program control account and work package data structure - Work with Control Account Managers (CAM) and PMs to establish budget and update forecast targets - Manage the process of importing schedule and resource data into the cost tool - Facilitate monthly business rhythm activities - Analyze Estimate at Completions (EACs) - Uncover flaws, problems, risks in data or projects by asking strategic questions - Be responsible for conducting data quality, validation, and DCMA EV Compliance Metric (DECM) checks - Directly support variance analysis reporting and improve upon variance analysis process - Establish appropriate change management and control principles - Mentor and train team members on the operations and tools of EVM
Category
Other
Job Locations US-VA-Leesburg | US-AZ-Chandler | US-Remote
Job ID 2024-3430
What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a Senior Master Scheduler to support a complex multi-phased U.S Government contract. As a Senior Master Scheduler, you will be expected to be an expert in all aspects of schedule creation, maintenance, management, and analysis in order to  provide valuable and critical insights to the Program Manager. As a Senior Master Scheduler, you will be required to support multiple interrelated efforts that feed into one common operational goal. You will also be required to work   independently and within a cross-functional team consisting of both dedicated and matrixed resources.  If you are an expert in the field of scheulding and have 5 recent years of experience working in the defense industry with a minumum of 10 years direct scheduling experience, then you will be excited about the Senior Master Scheduler opening with Iridium on our Space Development Agency (SDA) program. You will thrive in this role if you are detail oriented, have the ability to see the big picture, conduct true schedule analysis, and possess Earned Value Management expertise.   This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).   What You’ll Do: - Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Integrated Master Plan (IMP), and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) - Lead cross functional team members in the definition of project tasks, establish task durations, define relationships, impose constraints, collect weekly status, and resource load the schedule - Perform DCMA 14-point assessment, critical path analysis, and Monte Carlo schedule risk assessment - Design and implement WBS coding structures and IMP/ IMS coding structure - Define methodology and approach for implementing giver/receivers - Conduct data-driven analysis on cost & schedule variances and support Program Managers & Control Account Managers with variance explanations - Provide insights into how changes in the schedule may affect resource requirements and budget allocations - Forecast future schedule trends based on historical data and current performance - Develop tier-one schedule (one pager), tier-two schedules, and master schedule from a single database using Microsoft Project - Conduct risk assessments and provide recommendations for mitigation - Assess the impact of changes or modifications to the program scope on the schedule - Provide recommendations on how changes may affect timelines and what adjustments are needed - Play a key role in early identification of potential issues or trends that may impact the program's success - Develop process, procedures, and strategy for implementing scheduling best practices - Provide on-the-job training and mentorship to junior team members
Category
Other
Job Locations US-VA-Leesburg | US-AZ-Chandler | US-Remote
Job ID 2024-3429
What We’re Looking For: If you are looking for a collaborative work environment where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world, then you will be excited about the Bill of Materials Coordinator opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Bill of Materials Coordinator, you will play a critical role in the product development and manufacturing process by autonomously creating, maintaining, and optimizing accurate and comprehensive bill of materials for various parts/products. You will thrive in this role if you are detail oriented, excel at collaborating with cross-functional teams and material tracking to provide program visibility to ensure program needs are met within a dynamic growing environment.   Possess an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)   What You’ll Do: - Create, modify, and maintain accurate and consistent multi-level Bills of Material (BOM) and Item Master records to support order management, development builds, material requirements, and cost reporting - Be responsible for establishing and maintaining configuration management of BOMs - Manage lead times and material availability by identifying the material need dates, order by dates, receipt dates, and material decision points to be included in project schedules; including forecasting and reservation based on development schedule - Ensure engineering changes, procurement or supplier changes, price increases, and general updates are accurately captured and maintained in BOMs - Develop a thorough understanding of the cost and schedule impacts resulting from changes in the BOMs, and communicate associated impacts and variances with appropriate stakeholders - Actively engage in cross functional communication to ensure accuracy and timely creation and maintenance of BOMs and product information - Work independently to generate reports and documentation for internal and external use as needed - Ensure month-end and year-end closing and reporting process for Materials Management data/system are properly performed within scheduled timeframes - Assure ongoing compliance of material management system with all applicable and current Internal Audit, Compliance, Finance and Materials Management, policies and procedures - Be responsible for the development of appropriate data quality controls and generate appropriate reports for use in the monitoring system integrity - Participate in cross-functional improvement initiatives to enhance processes related to BOM management and product development
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