Hiring: Structural Analysis Section Manager Company: Axiom Space Location: Houston, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:47:56 Target Skills & Keywords : Configuration Management, MATLAB, Program Management, Python About the job Experience: •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. •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. Required Skills: •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. •Serve as the escalation point for technical issues, staffing conflicts, quality concerns, and cross-disciplinary coordination challenges. •Track and communicate section performance against budget, schedule, quality, deliverable completion, review closure, and customer commitments. •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. Qualifications: •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. •MS degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Structural Engineering. •Management has the prerogative to select at any level for which the position is advertised. •Must be willing to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones. •Work may involve sitting or standing for extended periods (90% of the time) •May require lifting and carrying up to 25 lbs. (5% of the time) •Standard office equipment Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!