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Apex manufactures satellite buses at scale for the commercial space industry. As launch costs decrease and payload companies proliferate, demand for these spacecraft platforms is surging. Apex combines software, vertical integration, and hardware-focused manufacturing to enable earth observation, communications, and other space-based services.
You will own Apex's integrated master schedule, serving as the single source of truth for the company's product design, development, and program execution across all programs. This is a senior, cross-company role requiring both big-picture strategic thinking and deep engagement with technical execution.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and maintain the company-wide integrated master schedule connecting product design, development, and program execution across multiple programs.
- Partner with engineering to develop design and development schedules, including major milestones, dependencies, and gates.
- Create detailed program execution schedules that drive on-time delivery and efficient resource allocation.
- Monitor progress across all departments against the master schedule, clearly identifying where teams are on plan and where they are falling behind.
- Learn Apex's engineering development and production processes and decompose schedule tasks to reflect technical scope accurately.
- Collaborate with engineering, supply chain, production, and program management to keep schedules aligned and realistic.
- Establish consistent scheduling processes, cadence, and standards to ensure timely updates and trustworthy schedules across the organization.
- Identify schedule risks early, work with teams on mitigation and contingency plans, and flag critical path issues.
- Resolve competing priorities and resource conflicts across programs to keep work moving.
- Communicate schedule changes to appropriate stakeholders and ensure adjustments cascade through the organization.
- Provide regular leadership updates on schedule health, progress, and major issues, with clear visibility into whether the company is tracking to plan.
Requirements:
- U.S. Person status (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) due to ITAR export control requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in scheduling or program planning, preferably in manufacturing or aerospace.
- Proven track record building and owning complex, integrated schedules with many interdependent tasks across multiple programs or teams.
- Strong understanding of engineering development and production processes.
- Proficiency in scheduling software (Microsoft Project, Smartsheet).
- Experience building critical path and milestone schedules.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including direct engagement with leadership.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience owning a company-level or integrated master schedule (IMS).
- Experience delivering IMSs on a U.S. Government Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL).
- Background in satellite manufacturing or related industries (aerospace, defense, high-tech).
- Project management or scheduling certification (PMP, CPIM, PMI-SP, Six Sigma).
- Experience scheduling both product development and production.
