Axiom Space
Thermal Fluids Section Manager
Houston
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 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 Thermal Fluids Section Manager.
- The Thermal Fluids Section Manager provides functional leadership for the Thermal Fluids Analysis organization, including Thermal Analysis, and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
- 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 Thermal Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
- 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 thermal fluid analysis support to meet cost, schedule, technical quality, and customer commitments.
- Partner 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 audits, supports customer reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and defines corrective-action activities related to thermal fluids 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.
- Axiom Space is a human space exploration company, building era-defining space infrastructure and delivering technology-driven solutions that will empower civilization to transcend Earth.
Requirements
- In accordance with U.S. export control laws, final candidates may be required to undergo additional export control screening to determine eligibility for access.
- 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, Chemical, or related engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience in thermal analysis, fluid systems, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and thermal verification and testing.
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, technical organizations, or functional groups, including personnel development, resource planning, and multi-disciplinary coordination.
- Experience with industry-standard thermal and fluid analysis tools and workflows, including software such as Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT, Star-CCM+, OpenFOAM, 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 Thermal Fluids 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
- export control laws, final candidates may be required to undergo additional export control screening to determine eligibility for access
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