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Manager Contract Delivery Operations and Maintenance

Published date more than one year ago
Posted: more than one year ago
Company Iceye
Company: Iceye
Location Espoo
Location: Espoo

Do you know why it’s called New Space?

ICEYE is building and operating its own commercial constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites with SAR data

already available to customers. These satellites can take images of Earth at any time – even when it’s cloudy or dark.

Information derived from these images will help our customers understand the world better and help them make more

intelligent decisions. We launched the world’s first SAR microsatellite in January 2018 and have raised $65M in financing to

date.

We are a Finnish based international New Space company with employees from roughly 40 countries and subsidiaries in the

US, UK and Poland. Our team is a tight-knit group of experts from a range of areas including engineering, software

development, and radar technology. We’re innovative, driven, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We don’t listen to

people who say it can’t be done: we go and do it!

To support the growth of the company, we are now looking for a Manager, Contract Delivery Operations and Maintenance to join our Product Delivery/Operations team in Espoo, Finland. As a Manager, Contract Delivery Operations and Maintenance you will report to Director PM Contract Delivery. You will be responsible for defining and executing an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) program for ICEYE’s globally-deployed customer operated ground segments.

Your daily tasks:

  • Establish a standard O&M program to support current and future direct access customer operated ground segments.
  • Manage the O&M contracts and relationships with the customer and vendors according to program requirements.
  • Coordinate with the Account Management, Solutions Engineering, Software Engineering, and Operations group.
  • Manage customer O&M Statements of Work.
  • Procure/manage all O&M contracts with support vendors in accordance with the customer agreements.
  • Act as the point of contact for escalated O&M issues.

Your attributes that we need:

  • Relevant educational and technical background.
  • 10+ years of professional experience with technical project management with exposure to contract, vendor, and budget management.
  • 3+ years of working experience in space or comparable industry
  • Highly attentive to details to include establishing milestones, dependencies and risk mitigation plans
  • Ability to multi-task and be self-motivated in a highly disparate environment juggling multiple projects
  • Advanced verbal and written communications skills (technical fluency in English required)
  • Strong people skills / demonstrated interpersonal

Your extra ones:

  • Proven experience managing international customers and vendors.

Our perks and benefits:

  • A job that matters.
  • A dynamic new-space environment with a start-up vibe and a scale-up approach.
  • Space for self-development, research time, training, conferences or certification schemes.
  • An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment.
  • An extremely motivated team of top-tier engineers and commercial operations to work with.
  • Inspiring and collaborating, pet-friendly office lounge and silent working space enabling focus.
  • Nicely equipped gym area.
  • Occupational healthcare, occupational and private insurance.
  • Relocation support (flight tickets, accommodation, relocation buddy program).
  • Compensation for language courses, conferences etc.
  • Internal events for employees on a regular basis (e.g. sports events, team-building events, parties etc.).
  • A wide variety of best coffee, tea, snacks and sweets to accompany your daily space mission.

Unleash your potential with us and join our next space mission coming up soon! We are looking forward to receiving your

application in English until 14 March.

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