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The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.   At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration – to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.           Job Summary The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Conference & Events Specialist to join our Corporate Strategic Events team. In this vital role, you will be responsible for the execution of successful events from concept to completion. You will manage several projects simultaneously with an attention to detail to deliver and create engaging experiences.   Work Model This is a full-time position based in El Segundo, CA, offering a hybrid work model that combines 3+ regular onsite workdays and remote flexibility as the business needs allow. At times, this position will have work requirements that fall outside of normal working hours due to events or activities.   What You’ll Be Doing

• Work collaboratively, as well as independently, to develop, produce, and execute a variety of corporate events, logistics, planning, and administrative needs. These will include workshops, conferences, and employee functions.
• Manage variety of events formats (in person, virtual, hybrid) coordinating logistics of event setup, livestream production, event technical management, and physical venue arrangements.
• Create, plan, and execute detailed project plans including event timeline schedules, venue selection and contracts, food & beverage logistics, attendee management, and post-survey engagement results.
• Collaborate with various internal and external teams to maximize event visibility and success.

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.   At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration – to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.           Job Summary The Payroll Staff position is responsible for ensuring the payroll systems, processes, and corporate policies are compliant, as well as managing and directing vendors, audits, and process improvements for payroll-related activities. The position implements processes improvements and cost optimization opportunities through data analytics and knowledge of best practices and benchmarking. This role provides cross-functional communication and coordination to solve complex payroll issues with other departments, managers, employees, auditors, and outside agencies. This role may provide training and mentorship to Payroll Specialists.   Work Model This is a full-time position based in El Segundo, CA, offering a hybrid work model that combines 3+ regular onsite workdays and remote flexibility as the business needs allow.   What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations, tax laws, and labor laws, including reporting and remittance requirements
• Manages day-to-day activities with payroll vendor, directing resolution for hard-to-solve issues that are escalated
• Maintains primary accountability for off-cycle payments, including issuing stop-payments, reissuing new checks, ensuring that calculations are accurate, and that payments are issued consistent with federal and state regulations
• Oversees responses to internal and external payroll audits, providing necessary documentation and resolving any identified issues
• Implements process improvement and cost optimization by analyzing payroll data and reports to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies
• Maintains current subject matter expert level knowledge of industry best practices and emerging trends in payroll administration, technology, and compliance; implement change to corporate processes to ensure compliance and efficiency
• Develops and document payroll procedures, guidelines, and standard operating processes to ensure consistent and efficient payroll operations
• Trains and mentor payroll staff to ensure they are proficient in payroll procedures
• Serves as a subject matter expert on payroll-related matters, collaborating with peer corporate services departments including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Benefits, Compensation, People Analytics, People Experience, People Management, People Strategy, People Systems, and other related touchpoints at The Aerospace Corporation
• Ensures confidentiality and security of employee payroll and personal information.
• Serves as key resource to stakeholders for interpreting policies, procedures, and regulations relating to Payroll; draft, refresh, and revise Time policies as needed
• Serves as Communications and Change Management process advisor for Payroll processes and procedures; provides continuous process improvement on policies and practices
• Supports quarterly and annual fiscal-year end planning for Payroll reporting, tax compliance, and in support of state and federal regulations including the year-end W2 process
• Serves as Payroll implementation subject matter expert on new compensation and benefit plans (deductions & wages); partners with Compensation and Benefits teams on interpretation and implementation
• Directs maintenance of payroll systems and software, ensuring that configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and enhancements to ensure that systems are implemented are compliant, efficient, and consistent with corporate policy
• Ensures accuracy of staff performing complex payroll calculations, including variable pay components, retroactive adjustments, and special payments
• Manages resolution of escalated payroll inquiries and issues from employees or other stakeholders in a timely and professional manner
• Serves as systems integration and management of Payroll Systems point of contact for IT organization

The work program includes performing and leading space integration across the enterprise, with a particular emphasis on space support missions for the USSF and other services. This position supports a customer organization that spans space, ground, and cyber responsibilities. The Principal Director will be responsible for leading a team that will be working across the National Security Space Enterprise, bringing stakeholders together from multiple acquisition agencies, operator communities and commercial partners to evolve the space architecture baseline toward the delivery of end-to-end warfighter effects. The role requires collaboration across SSC, US SPACECOM, Space Operations Command (SpOC), Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), and mission partners as well as with representatives of other services. The selected candidate will be expected to provide proactive support to the customer, cultivate productive working relationships in a fast-paced multi-stakeholder environment, execute a strategic vision for an emerging customer area, work and develop staff members to solve Enterprise Integration problems.   Work Model: This position is located in El Segundo. Daily onsite presence is expected to work with the customer and staff.   What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and manage Aerospace support to SSC/BZG (Global Mission Operations), including forward deployed personnel from ETG and other program offices
• Establish trusted relationships with the SSC/SSIO leadership team with a focus on end to end integration to enable capability delivery for the space enterprise architecture
• Provide senior technical guidance within teams of Government, Aerospace, support contractors, and other FFRDC personnel to monitor program efforts, identify and resolve technical and performance integration risks/issues, and develop strategic roadmaps
• Provide leadership for team members and staff, setting strategy, goals, expectations and direction, mentoring, providing feedback, succession planning, and coaching aimed at building and maintaining an agile and capable team
• Collaborate with colleagues across Aerospace groups to deliver coordinated technical products in a timely and effective manner
• Demonstrate technical leadership in order to drive the development of systems engineering products in support of complex integration problems
• Conduct budget planning and allocation of resources, including identifying and hiring to fill needed positions and coordinating ETG support.
• Provide proactive support to customers to identify high value work for Aerospace, translating customer requests into technical priorities and planning and managing the team accordingly
• Report on the organization’s activities, progress, and achievements through written and oral reports.
• Moderate level of travel will be required

  What You Need to be Successful Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, mathematics or equivalent discipline
• Minimum 12 years of progressively demonstrated management and technical experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering
• Previous people management experience and the ability to perform resource planning, staffing, coaching and mentoring, and performance and development of team.
• Proven experience with building, leading, and maintaining integrated multidisciplinary mixed government, SE&I, SETA and FFRDC teams
• Demonstrated ability to make time-critical mission success decisions with ambiguous or incomplete data
• Demonstrated experience working across organizations and leading teams of technical experts and support staff; success as a relationship builder, complex problem solver, deep critical thinker, mentor, and coach
• Broad experience across a variety of space disciplines such as acquisition, systems engineering, integration & test, or operations
• Excellent social skills enabling effective communication and relationship building with customers, direct reports, colleagues, and senior management.
• Ability to travel as required (approx. 15 %)
• Active Top Secret / SCI clearance with ability to obtain Special Access (SAP) and maintain clearance, issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

  How You Can Stand Out It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• 15 or more years of progressively responsible professional engineering/scientific experience

• Advanced technical degree in engineering, science or math
• A strategic vision for how you would leverage the organization to address near-term integration challenges
• Experience leading a technical organization
• Demonstrated ability to work across a diverse array of partners in the National Security Space Enterprise including partners beyond SSC.
• Experience performing systems integration in other domains, in addition to space
• Prior management role in direct support of a government customer in program office
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Experience operating across multiple security compartments
• Current Special Access (SAP) clearance

    We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business.  The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below.  Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge and skills. (Min - Max) $240,000 - $280,000     Pay Basis: Annual   Leadership Competencies

Job Summary The mission of People Operations is to provide strategic and organizational solutions that enable our workforce to deliver unparalleled value to our customers and our mission.  As an experienced member of the People Management team, you will be part of the Center of Expertise (COE) responsible for Performance Management and Employee Relations.  We are looking for a proven self-starter who has solid employee relations experience in this individual contributor role directly reporting to the Director of People Management.   Work Model This is a regular, full-time position based on one of our campus locations (El Segundo CA, or Chantilly VA, or Crystal City DC, or Colorado Springs CO,) offering a hybrid work model that combines 3+ regular workdays onsite and remote flexibility the balance of the week, or as business needs allow.   The candidate must be willing and able to actively support west coast time zone hours regardless of their own place of residency.   What You Will be Doing

• Coach and partner with managers and employees at all levels to provide objective guidance and advice regarding employment policies, procedures, and employment practices to achieve resolution of complex issues such as misconduct, performance deficiencies, as well as accommodation requests.
• Conduct effective investigations, including thoughtful conclusions and recommendations; draft and deliver comprehensive reports.
• Provide expert direction, guidance, and consultation on a wide range of complex employee relations issues.
• Become a subject matter expert (SME) in our performance evaluation processes; keep up to date on external performance management trends.
• Develop and provide training on all aspects of goal setting, feedback, performance review preparation, and discussions, to include Workday systems usage.
• Interpret and research policies and procedures, incorporating knowledge of state and federal employment laws (i.e. ADA, FMLA, EEO) and practices to recommend resolutions.
• Work closely with management, Strategic People Partners (SPPs), and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
• Establish credibility and rapport by developing and maintaining strong and effective working relationships with all levels of management and employees regarding all types of employee relation issues (ADA, FMLA, misconduct, time & attendance etc).
• Develop metrics and analytics reports for executives.
• Initiate and participate in People Operations special projects.

The Communication Technologies and Engineering Division (CTED) represents the disciplines of communications, networking, and PNT (Position, Navigation, and Timing) in support of space missions, along with their enabling technologies. In our domain, CTED projects comprise all aspects, from architectures to prototypes to implementation, theoretical to hands-on.  Our engineers work directly with corporate and U.S. Government customers to ensure robust and resilient communications. The Communication Payload, Command & Telemetry Department (CPCTD) provides technical leadership and expertise in the areas of space communication payloads, navigation payloads, and telemetry, tracking and commanding systems as we as their ground counterparts.  CPCTD supports Space and Missile Systems Center, National Reconnaissance Office, other US Government, and Civil Systems Group customers in communications and navigation for space and terrestrial communications systems. Ways We Reward Our Employees During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits. Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type.  A few highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
• Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
• Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
• 401(k) Plan — Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
• Flexible spending accounts
• Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
• Relocation assistance
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
• Education assistance programs
• An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

  We are all unique, from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other—the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.