Director, Space Mission Assurance & EEE Parts Strategy

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience is required plus a minimum of 15 years of demonstrated leadership; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 13 years of demonstrated leadership.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:Department of Defense Secret security clearance obtainable within reasonable time based on requirements. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and may be required to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance based on assigned programs. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a Director, Space Mission Assurance & EEE Parts Strategy, serving as the lead Mission Assurance architect for the Space Systems business. This role is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a hybrid work arrangement where business and security requirements permit. Relocation assistance may be available.The Director will define, modernize, and govern an integrated Space Systems Mission Assurance plan and enterprise electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts strategy for mission-critical payloads and communications systems across proliferated low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, and cislunar or deep-space missions. The role combines the execution speed and product discipline of commercial space with rigorous, risk-informed engineering and mission assurance appropriate to each mission environment and operational life.The successful candidate will establish reusable GDMS mission-assurance profiles, standard operating media, proposal artifacts, and a multi-orbit Common Parts List. This leader will engage directly in capture and proposal efforts, negotiate practical tailoring of customer requirements, align engineering and operations to approved standards, and lead the technical and organizational change required to improve affordability, schedule, supply resilience, and mission success.REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:• Develops, publishes, and maintains the enterprise strategy, governance model, roadmap, and implementation plan for Space Systems Mission Assurance and EEE parts across Space Systems products and programs.• Establishes a family of risk-informed Space Systems Mission Assurance Profiles that define scalable requirements for parts selection, screening, qualification, derating, environmental testing, process controls, reliability, surveillance, and acceptance based on mission risk, orbital environment, and operational life.• Ensures Space Systems Mission Assurance Profiles are appropriately aligned with contractual obligations, applicable government and industry standards, customer risk posture, and the technical needs of each mission rather than relying solely on generic mission-class labels.• Authors and governs policies, operating instructions, engineering standards, standard work, proposal language, statement-of-work content, compliance matrices, and data-item or SDRL boilerplate supporting the approved mission-assurance approach.• Partners from the outset with capture, program management, systems engineering, contracts, supply chain, and legal teams to analyze customer statements of work, Mission Assurance Requirements, specifications, quality clauses, and data requirements.• Develops and executes proposal-tailoring strategies, including technical redlines, exceptions, assumptions, compliance positions, and recommended replacement language that uses approved GDMS processes and product baselines whenever acceptable to the customer.• Leads technical discussions and negotiations with prime contractors and government customers to remove redundant or non-value-added requirements while maintaining objective evidence that mission, quality, safety, and contractual expectations are satisfied.• Creates standard proposal and execution artifacts that enable capture teams to price, schedule, and implement mission assurance consistently and with reduced nonrecurring effort.• Partners across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, procurement, quality, program management, and business development to ensure approved standards govern product design, sourcing, assembly, inspection, test, acceptance, and delivery.• Establishes, governs, and drives adoption of an enterprise multi-orbit Common Parts List across Space Systems product lines, including clear ownership, configuration control, approved use cases, qualification evidence, and exception processes.• Structures the Common Parts List into practical, pre-characterized environmental and radiation tiers based on total ionizing dose, single-event effects, destructive-event susceptibility, thermal range, reliability, mission duration, and other relevant application constraints.• Leads the technical strategy for identifying, evaluating, qualifying, and sustaining radiation-hardened, space-grade, high-reliability commercial, and automotive-grade components for appropriate space applications.• Establishes standard qualification, screening, upscreening, radiation-characterization, derating, lot-control, traceability, and obsolescence-management approaches for EEE parts and related materials and processes.• Partners with Supply Chain to translate the Common Parts List into a strategic procurement and inventory model for long-lead microelectronics, semiconductors, passives, and other critical components.• Defines business cases, demand aggregation, safety-stock policies, inventory controls, ownership models, and replenishment strategies that reduce proposal and production lead time while managing carrying cost and obsolescence risk.• Maximizes use of the GDMS Components and Materials Laboratory by establishing priorities and integrated plans for screening, destructive physical analysis, failure analysis, upscreening, radiation testing and characterization, and lot date code re-life evaluation.• Chairs or provides senior technical leadership to the Parts, Materials, and Processes Control Board and related EEE parts governance forums; establishes decision rights, membership, records, metrics, and escalation paths.• Defines a contractually compliant governance model that preserves appropriate GDMS Material Review Board and PMPCB authority for nonconformances, substitutions, waivers, deviations, obsolescence, and parts or process decisions.• Standardizes acceptance and delivery evidence, including automated End-Item Data Packages, as-built parts lists, compliance records, and disciplined Pre-Ship Reviews, to reduce reliance on disruptive in-process customer surveillance where contractually permitted.• Promotes timely, physics-based failure investigation and corrective action focused on containment, most likely cause, risk assessment, recurrence prevention, and objective closure criteria.• Establishes metrics and recurring reviews for mission-assurance effectiveness, parts reuse, qualification cycle time, customer requirements tailoring, supplier quality, escapes, failure resolution, inventory availability, cost avoidance, and schedule improvement.• Advises senior leaders on mission-assurance risk, EEE parts strategy, investment priorities, customer positions, product competitiveness, and enterprise capability needs.• Builds and leads a high-performing network of mission assurance, quality, reliability, radiation-effects, EEE parts, materials, process, laboratory, and supply-chain specialists across organizational boundaries.• Represents GDMS with customers, partners, suppliers, standards organizations, and industry forums and may be required to travel.KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:• Extensive knowledge of mission assurance, product assurance, quality, reliability, and EEE p