Site Development Program Manager

Summary

Join LeoLabs as the Staff Site Development Program Manager and oversee all activities related to progressing ground-based radar sites from feasibility to construction and testing. This role blends project management with improving radar site selection and construction documentation for external contractors. You will manage international development for future radar sites across continents, with potential for overseas travel. The position can be remote but demands dedication. Your work directly supports LeoLabs' space domain awareness and space traffic management services. You will engage with internal and external stakeholders, representing LeoLabs globally. The ultimate goal is to streamline the process for groundbreaking and construction, expanding our portfolio of potential sites.

Requirements

• 10+ years in business development or project management in the construction trade
• Working knowledge of construction, permitting, site feasibility, leases, technical surveys
• Excellent verbal and communications skills
• Great computer skills with Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, Projects
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• It is imperative that you are a strong recordkeeper and have an excellent understanding of what quality work is and why it is important
• Desire to learn about components that make up our radar systems

Responsibilities

• Building relationships with a global network of stakeholders
• Task creation and management, coordinating work done by different contractors and consultants. Efficiently planning the stages of work to be done to ensure future LeoLabs sites are progressed quickly and efficiently
• Taking ownership of ensuring projects are running on schedule and to budget
• Understanding and documenting the risks involved in each different country radar site and creating solutions to mitigate these risks
• Updating and improving Leolabs' radar site selection and construction documentation
• Ensuring existing radar sites are compliant with local requirements
• Working cross-functionally with LeoLabs’ other Radar departments, as well as Go to Market, Legal, Accounting, and Corporate Affairs teams to best coordinate and accomplish effective international development
• Reporting to management and advising on process improvements
• Managing our on-the-ground consultants during the site selection, feasibility, due diligence, contracting and construction phases
• Engaging with contacts in new countries to qualify whether this person or location would benefit LeoLabs’ overall deployment strategy
• Understanding Leolabs technical requirements to advance the due diligence activities of the site selection
• Provide weekly reports to the Global Infrastructure Director, the Radar team Vice President, and other key stakeholders on status of each of the developments

Preferred Qualifications

• Overseen international construction site selection and permitting processes – possibly learned through experience managing international ground station deployments for satellite infrastructure
• Understanding of radar systems or other industrial electrical infrastructure
• Experience working in a small team startup environment
• 5+ years in business development or project management in the construction trade
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with consistent change
• Willingness and capability to travel internationally 10% time

Benefits

• Complete our onboarding program designed to get you up to speed on our business, vision and team
• Gain an understanding about how your role fits into Leo Labs broader organization
• Come up to speed with the current status of Leolabs' radar site development efforts
• Have begun engagement with new contacts in new countries
• Develop and streamline our feasibility and site selection process
• Be proactively engaged with consultants in a dozen locales
• Develop a plan to grow a small team of regional contacts to rapidly expand our search footprint
• Take over daily engagement with our active contacts in the different feasibility stages
• Take ownership of our documentation library, engaging with third parties to properly file all communications, documents, and specifications pertaining to new sites
• Continue developing our feasibility process and documentation for the progress of our radar site builds
• Streamline the project flow process for managing a radar site through the construction stage
• Be heavily involved in the day-to-day engagement with our active contacts in the different radar site build locations
• Manage contractors in due diligence process in up to a dozen international locations
• Develop a thorough understanding of overarching goals and have made necessary changes to help achieve radar build deadlines
• Be a critical source of support for other cross-functional teams
• Have grown a hub of regional consultants to be capable of supporting all of LeoLabs’ near-term deployment goals
• Have found 15+ additional site locations and are working them through later stages of due diligence
• Own key components of the radar deployment process
• Have actively contributed to progressing multiple sites through the groundbreaking phases
• Have fully documented and developed our process for new site acquisition
• The base salary range for this position $164,000 - 180,000