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Impulse is seeking a Manager of Test Operations to lead a team responsible for building, maintaining, and operating world-class test equipment and infrastructure supporting the development and production of flight-ready components and assemblies for in-space transportation systems.
You will balance technical execution with people leadership, ensuring your team delivers safe, reliable, and high-quality tests while continuously improving capability, efficiency, and test cadence. This role works closely with engineering, manufacturing, and integration teams to transform rapidly evolving designs into production-ready hardware.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of test technicians while establishing a culture of ownership, accountability, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement
- Planning, prioritizing, and executing technician workloads across multiple development, qualification, and acceptance campaigns to support aggressive program schedules
- Overseeing the fabrication, assembly, commissioning, maintenance, and operation of test equipment, ground support equipment, and supporting infrastructure including fluids, controls, and high-power systems
- Ensuring safe execution of hazardous operations involving cryogenic fluids, high-pressure systems, propulsion testing, and other high-energy testing
- Partnering with Test, Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing, Controls, Avionics, and Facilities teams to define test objectives, build plans, staffing needs, and execution strategies
- Driving process improvements through standardized work instructions, tooling, inventory management, calibration, equipment maintenance, and technician training
- Supporting hands-on troubleshooting during test operations, root cause investigations, and rapid hardware iterations to maximize test cadence
- Monitoring team performance, staffing requirements, and resource allocation while fostering career development and preparing future technical leaders
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience working on flight hardware assemblies and/or in a test production environment, or a bachelor's degree in an engineering or science field
- 5+ years of experience leading technicians or engineering teams in aerospace, propulsion, manufacturing, or other complex hardware development programs
- Demonstrated experience with mechanical assembly, fluid systems, pressure systems, control systems, high-power systems, fabrication, or propulsion hardware
- Strong understanding of safe work practices around high-pressure, cryogenic, electrical, and hazardous test operations
- Experience using engineering drawings, CAD models, manufacturing documentation, and digital work management systems
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams in a fast-paced development program
