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Lead development and implementation of soft-goods manufacturing processes (cargo bags, blankets, closeouts). Collaborate with design, supply chain, QA, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and crew safety. Own production targets, create control plans and operating procedures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions, and implement process improvements using data-driven methods.

Lead the end-to-end color, material, and finish design strategy for human-rated space stations. Develop concepts, research spaceflight materials, manage vendors, build materials libraries, coordinate testing and qualification, and drive designs from concept through production. Collaborate with industrial design, engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and supply chain teams while ensuring aerospace safety, certification, cost, and schedule requirements. Present design direction to leadership and mentor other designers.

Owner of contingent workforce operations including onboarding, lifecycle management, and offboarding for contractors and consultants. Partner cross-functionally (Legal, IT, Finance, Supply Chain) to ensure compliance, worker classification, access provisioning, and payroll/vendor coordination. Build scalable processes, reporting, and international HR operations support for offices abroad. Support audits, process improvements, and People Operations backup as needed.

Leads Vast’s brand design standards and creative direction across campaigns, brand initiatives, and key company moments. Manages and mentors a small design team while remaining hands-on in design and art direction. Translates complex technical concepts and business goals into clear creative work, partners with cross-functional teams, presents to stakeholders, and maintains quality standards. Also evaluates AI-driven design and production workflows and manages external creative resources.

Manage and optimize the ATS and recruiting tech stack, document scalable recruiting processes and SOPs, build and maintain dashboards and reporting, ensure recruiting data integrity, support tool adoption and change management, and collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers to improve hiring operations.

Lead advanced sourcing for highly specialized engineering talent across Vast. Perform deep talent mapping, competitive intelligence, candidate outreach and screening, mentor sourcers, advise leadership on market trends, and run programs to improve sourcing and employer branding.

Coordinate inbound/outbound aerospace shipments, schedule carriers and freight forwarders, prepare shipping/export documentation, ensure regulatory compliance (ITAR/EAR/DOT/IATA), track deliveries, maintain ERP/WMS inventory records, support manufacturing schedules, partner with internal teams, and perform local deliveries using a company vehicle.

Lead systems engineering for human-rated commercial space stations: define and manage requirements, drive verification & validation, oversee cross-disciplinary design reviews, maintain engineering lifecycle documentation, and streamline systems engineering processes to ensure product readiness and mission safety.

The Supplier Quality Engineer evaluates suppliers, conducts audits, collaborates with engineering teams, drives continuous improvement, and manages supplier quality metrics to ensure product reliability in a space manufacturing environment.

Lead and grow a propulsion and thermal analysis team to establish analysis standards, validate simulation methods (FEA, CFD, 1-D, multiphase/slosh), integrate test and flight data, support propulsion and high-pressure fluid system design, and present findings for certification. Collaborate with design, GN&C, manufacturing, and test teams and drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions.