Axiom Space

Axiom Space

Structural Analysis Section Manager

Houston

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago
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About the role

  • Since Axiom Space is a very complex work environment, we are looking for a resilient, high-energy Structural Analysis Section Manager.
  • The Structural Analysis Section Manager provides functional leadership for the Structural Analysis organization, including Stress Analysis, Loads & Dynamics, and Structural Verification/Test.
  • Serve as the escalation point for technical issues, staffing conflicts, quality concerns, and cross-disciplinary coordination challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Lead personnel assignments and priorities across multiple programs and technical disciplines within Stress Analysis, Loads & Dynamics, and Structural Verification/Test.
  • Develop and execute section staffing strategies, including workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, retention, succession planning, cross-training, and employee development.
  • Maintain labor forecasts, staffing plans, budget inputs, BOEs, ROMs, and resource estimates for section work to ensure programs have adequate structural analysis support to meet cost, schedule, technical quality, and customer commitments.
  • Partners with program managers, chief engineers, and functional leaders to balance priorities, resolve resource conflicts, and manage technical and schedule risks.
  • Establish, maintain, and enforce section workflows, review gates, standards, templates, analysis checklists, reporting expectations, and configuration-control practices to ensure technical rigor and consistency.
  • Establish and monitor metrics related to quality, productivity, staffing utilization, review effectiveness, and process maturity, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Conducts quality audits, supports customer reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and defines corrective-action activities related to structural analysis products and processes.
  • Develop and maintain section technical capabilities, methods, software tools, automation solutions, and knowledge management practices (e.g., lessons learned) to ensure long-term competitiveness and program success.
  • Conduct employee one-on-ones, performance evaluations, career development discussions, recognition, counseling, and promotion planning, while mentoring Stress, Loads & Dynamics, and Test leads.
  • Perform additional job duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation
  • Must be willing to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
  • The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Education & Experience
  • Required
  • ​BS in Mechanical, Aerospace, Structural, or related engineering discipline.
  • 8+ years total engineering experience. Significant experience in structural analysis, loads and dynamics, structural testing and verification, and mechanical analysis.
  • 3+ years experience leading engineering teams, technical organizations, or functional groups, including personnel development, resource planning, and multi-disciplinary coordination.
  • Experience with industry-standard structural analysis tools and workflows, including finite element modeling, dynamics analysis, test correlation, and automation using software such as Nastran, FEMAP, Simcenter 3D, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage staffing plans, labor forecasts, budgets, schedules, priorities, and multi-program resource demands.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate technical issues and recommendations effectively to engineering leadership, program management, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience developing or enforcing engineering workflows, quality procedures, technical standards, review gates, and deliverable expectations.

Skills

  • Passion for space and the mission
  • Entrepreneurial, growth mindset
  • Tech-solutioning in using systems and tools to move smarter and faster
  • Core Competencies:
  • Embody our core values of leadership, innovation, and teamwork.
  • Ownership and Accountability
  • Pride of Delivery
  • Quality and Technical Rigor

Benefits

  • Today, guided by the vision of leading humanity's expansion off planet, Axiom Space is the principal provider of commercial human spaceflight services and developer of advanced spacesuits for the Moon and beyond.

Company info

  • driven team is seeking a bold and dynamic Structural Analysis Section Manager who is fueled by high accountability, execution horsepower, and driven to understand our world, science/technology, and life itself, for the benefit of all on Earth and beyond.
  • We are the pioneers of commercial space, leading the transformation of low-Earth orbit into a global space marketplace.

Equal opportunity

  • Axiom Space is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Citizenship or US Permanent Residency is a requirement for this position
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