Senior General Operations Manager (Aerospace)

Location: El Segundo, California; Los Angeles Air Force Base. Occasional travel of up to 10% may be required.

Salary: $180,000+ annually, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global provides professional services and supports aerospace, defense, systems engineering, and federal government programs.

What you will do

• Lead daily SETA contract operations in accordance with performance work statements, contract requirements, and customer priorities.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for government stakeholders, contract leadership, task leads, and engineering teams.
• Coordinate staffing, onboarding, workforce planning, workload distribution, leave coverage, and employee performance.
• Supervise and mentor multidisciplinary personnel across engineering, program management, logistics, cybersecurity, mission assurance, and technical disciplines.
• Manage deliverable tracking, quality control, contract performance, schedules, risks, labor utilization, and key performance indicators.
• Coordinate government tasking, customer engagements, status reviews, corrective actions, proposal support, workforce transitions, and business-growth initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Engineering, Operations, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of experience in operations management, program management, contract management, aerospace, defense, or SETA support.
• At least 5 years of experience managing or supervising multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense, Space Force, Air Force, or other federal acquisition programs.
• Experience managing contract operations, staffing, deliverables, schedules, risks, performance metrics, and customer requirements.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one is required; TS/SCI is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Management, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience supporting SSC/SN, missile warning or tracking, OPIR, SBIRS, FORGE, Next-Generation GEO or Polar systems, or related space programs.
• Previous experience as a Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, Operations Manager, Site Lead, or Contract Manager.
• Experience with SETA, systems engineering and integration, technical advisory, or professional services contracts.
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, PWS/SOW requirements, CDRLs, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Agile operations, or integrated master schedules.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-focused work supporting Space Systems Command and space sensing missions.
• Collaboration with government stakeholders, mission partners, contractors, and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Focus on accountability, continuous improvement, operational readiness, and reliable contract execution.