We have an opportunity for a Lead Satellite Operations Design Engineer to join us at Honeywell, where you will be the key operations engineer and planner and will participate in the development, design and deployment of satellite missions.  You will leverage your technical and leadership skills to ensure smooth operation, mission planning, and integration of missions within Honeywell and also for external customers. 

Key Responsibilities

• Mission flight analysis preparation, and design of the relevant ground segment planning architecture
• Develop planning tools for satellite platforms, and for payload operations
• Produce operations documentation and flight procedures
• Develop LEOP, commissioning and routine operations plans for satellites
• Write and peer-review software requirements, mission requirements and interface control documents.
• Provide orbital analysis support for current and future missions, with tasks including constellation management, coverage, duty cycle, revisit and latency determination, maneuver strategies, orbit prediction, spacecraft performance assessments and link and command budgets.
• Support customer design and technical meetings such as Critical Design Reviews and leading the Operations Readiness Review
• Support routine satellite operations, when required, and assist in investigating on-orbit anomalies
• Support satellite bus, payload and instrument integration and test, including the development of any pre-operations testing requirements
• Interface with ground station providers and help develop ground architecture
• Interact with the satellite and payload engineering teams

• Communicate with Program Management, Chief Engineers, Development Engineers, Manufacturing, and Customers as and when necessary.
• Mentor and providing guidance to less experienced colleagues on space systems and operations.

The Honeywell building is a controlled goods program environment. Candidates must be eligible for CGP clearance.

MUST HAVE

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline
• 2+ years experience in flight dynamics analysis, including detailed knowledge of STK and other flight analysis tools
• 2+ years experience in satellite operations engineering for low earth orbit satellites
• 3+ years experience developing or using satellite data analysis tools

WE VALUE

• Experience in the operation and/or development of satellite ground segment planning tools
• Understanding of satellite architecture and specifically satellite avionics and AOCS
• Knowledge of and experience with mission control software packages; specific knowledge and experience with Galaxy is beneficial
• Excellent written and oral skills for presentation and communication of the work performed - providing explanations to leadership and to cross-functional design teams. Work will include writing documents, white papers, presentations.

• Ability to proactively identify and resolve problems in a timely manner. Excellent time management skills, to meet deadlines.
• Ability to act as a contributing and collaborative member of a tightly knit team working to meeting program goals.
• Ability to manage and organize assigned tasks.