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Project Manager, Configuration Management

Astranis · 3151 Program Management

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Pay
$80,000–$125,000/yr
Where
San Francisco
Posted
2 days ago

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.

With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.

Astranis has raised over $1.2 billion from some of the world’s best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Blackrock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, and Snowpoint, and employs a team of 500 engineers and entrepreneurs.

What you'd do

  • Create, enter, maintain, and track Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and associated PLM records
  • Review ECO submissions for completeness, accuracy, required documentation, and adherence to established naming, revision-control, and release standards
  • Coordinate ECO routing, approvals, and follow-up across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and other cross-functional teams
  • Proactively identify stalled, incomplete, or inconsistent change requests and work with stakeholders to keep them moving
  • Support the release and revision of parts, assemblies, drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), and related engineering documentation
  • Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics for ECO throughput, backlog, cycle time, and data quality
  • Professional experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, quality, or configuration-management teams.
  • Familiarity with product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), document-control, ticketing, or workflow-management systems.
  • Exposure to engineering drawings, BOMs, part numbers, revisions, or change-control processes.
  • Interest in aerospace, satellites, or complex hardware development.

What they want

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, information systems, or another related technical field—or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to perform high-accuracy, process-driven work.
  • Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfort working with structured data, spreadsheets, and technical documentation.
  • Ability to manage multiple requests, prioritize effectively, and follow defined
  • processes.
  • A collaborative approach and comfort working with technical and operational stakeholders.
  • Curiosity about how physical products are designed, documented, released, and built.